Judge — January 12, 1924 — page 7: what you’re looking at

What you’re looking at

# "Extracts from the Alphabet of the Younger or more Rising Generation" This page presents two satirical vignettes by cartoonist John Held Jr., mocking young people's behavior and mannerisms of the 1920s Jazz Age. **Panel A ("Anxious")**: A woman flails dramatically while a man kicks his legs in exaggerated panic—satirizing anxious youth as histrionic and prone to theatrical overreaction. **Panel B ("Boiled on Lemon Extract")**: A woman staggers drunkenly, presumably intoxicated from lemon extract—referencing Prohibition-era youth illegally consuming household products as alcohol substitutes, a common social problem of the 1920s. Held's humor targets the "younger generation" as reckless, neurotic, and destructive. The series appears designed as a satirical alphabet primer exposing generational vices to adult readers.