Judge, 1923-08-11 · page 4 of 36
Judge — August 11, 1923 — page 4: what you’re looking at
What you’re looking at
# Analysis The illustration by Gilbert Wilkinson depicts two women in 1920s beach attire walking together. The caption quotes "Maiden Aunt" remarking on how modern youth stare at women in contemporary swimwear, contrasting this with her girlhood era. Below is an article titled "Fairer Treatment for Us Graduates" by Carl Moseley Lea, discussing employment opportunities for recent graduates. The author lists various salesmen positions and engineering roles paying $150-$183 monthly, noting the competitive job market and that employers often prefer experienced workers. **The satire**: The juxtaposition suggests commentary on changing social attitudes—the illustration addresses shifting fashion and morality regarding women's bodies, while the article addresses economic realities facing young job-seekers in what appears to be the early 1920s. The contrast implies tension between social modernization and practical economic concerns.
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Drawn by GiLbert WILKINSON. Maiden Aunt—Really, it’s extraordinary what modern seaside youth finds to stare at these days! the I'm sure they never used to when I was a girl! Fairer Treatment for Us Graduates by Carl Macauley Leo Ts has been a lot said lately about the Sweet Girl Graduate and the College Youths that is being subsidized to get a education, but what about us lads that is anxious to succeed, uses our spare moments and gets our Baccu- loriate Sermon handed to us by the mail man? Last year they was more of us graduates turned out by the Learn By Mail schools than they was sardines packed in Nor- wegon, which is a lot of fish in both cases. Personally, during the fiscal year I took eight courses and I am still getting $135 per month, fiscally speaking. graduated in Learn ‘Tree Surgery a Salesman, Traffic Experts Earn $1. a Week and Up and am five lessons in Why Not Study Law and have already found about fifty good reasons. In the first place the proposition don’t work out like the pictures in the ad- vertisements which to the real corre- spondence schooler is a constant inspira- tion to keep on paying the installments. Now take the course Be a Salesman for instance. I bought a derby hat and a grip just like the man in the adver- tise has and when I would tell anybody I was a salesman they wouldn’t believe me, but thot I was just kidding. And when I was taking Engineering Pays Big, I got a complete engineer's outfit of high boots, riding pants and broad-brimmed Stetson hat, but the only time I got to wear it was at our church picnic and everybody took it for a Boy Scout suit and made me take charge of the games for the children, Then they is lots of courses that you don’t know what you is supposed’ to look like, as in Traffie Experting. The only one I ever saw is the one in the advertisement and he is always reaching out with a whole hand full of box cars and locomotives which would be crazy to try even if you have already got your diploma and while I did hang around the R. R. yards for a couple of days after I graduated nobody recognized comicbooks.com