Judge, 1923-08-18 · page 25 of 36
Judge — August 18, 1923 — page 25: what you’re looking at
What you’re looking at
This page collects brief satirical cartoons and jokes from various international publications, all addressing early-20th-century domestic and social anxieties. The cartoons mock: 1. **Female vanity/aging**: A woman discards a mirror because it doesn't flatter her appearance. 2. **Courtship skepticism**: A man's attractiveness is questioned—"could a woman trust him?" 3. **Economic hardship**: A suitor earning $30/week cannot afford both supporting a daughter AND paying rent, highlighting working-class financial strain. 4. **Old age dissatisfaction**: An elderly man finds no pleasure in wholesome activities (missions, cinema) and relies solely on alcohol. 5. **Marital financial management**: A wife justifies expensive clothing purchases as necessary, while her husband accepts the expense—satirizing female spending and male resignation. 6. **Optimistic foolishness**: An inventor, after a crash, sees opportunity in a "folding car"—mocking misplaced optimism. The recurring themes reflect anxieties about courtship, marriage economics, aging, and class mobility in the early 1900s.
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LY ke Ido} of fe Perea Hy latesrand quates tough HT “Hullo, my dear, where’s the big mirror that used to hang just there?” “I got rid of it. It didn’t do me justice."— London Weekly Telegraph. POSTER REFLECTIONS The Skeptic—’Andsome, yes! But, by gosh, could a woman trust ’im?—Sydney Bulletin. “But how can you support my daughter? Thirty dollars a week won't pay your rent!” i “Surely you don’t mean to say you'll charge Phyllis and me rent?”—London Mail. “There’s no pleasure for an old chap like me. If I go to the mis- sion house I can’t hear anything, and if I go to the cinema I can’t see anything. A good drink is the only real pleasure I have.”—Strix (Stockholm). Wife—After all, Clarence, this trip isn’t going to be so Optimistic Inventor (soliloquizing expensive. With the four dresses I simply had to get and after smash)—Still, that gives me a your clothes cleaned and pressed, we'll manage splendidly. splendid idea—a folding car!—Pass- —Humorist (London). ing Show (London). comicbooks.com