Judge — April 26, 1924 — page 1: what you’re looking at

What you’re looking at

# "Meet the Wife" - Judge Magazine, April 26, 1924 This cover illustration by Hollands Gren depicts a woman seated, reading what appears to be a magazine or publication while smoking a cigarette. She's dressed in fashionable 1920s attire with a patterned blouse and skirt. The caption "Meet the Wife" suggests this is satirizing modern married women of the era. During the 1920s, Judge frequently mocked changing social norms—particularly women's increasing independence, smoking, and leisure activities. The image likely critiques or jokes about wives who engaged in newfound freedoms (voting rights, social activities, cigarette smoking) that were considered controversial or scandalous by conservative standards of the time. The illustration represents typical Jazz Age anxieties about evolving gender roles.