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

What you’re looking at

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.