Judge — July 5, 1924 — page 12: what you’re looking at

What you’re looking at

# "The Reverend Stiggins Succumbs to Environment" This comic strip satirizes Reverend Stiggins, an apparent reformer associated with the "UNCO GUID REFORM CORP'N" (visible on the office door in panel 1). The title suggests he's succumbing to environmental pressures—specifically, the temptations of urban leisure and vice. The sequence shows Stiggins progressively abandoning his moral stance: he encounters women, frequents what appears to be a nightclub or gambling establishment (panels 3-4), and eventually embraces secular pleasures with companions. The final panel depicts him triumphantly celebrating with two fashionable women, having completely abandoned his reformist pretensions. The satire mocks self-righteous moralists who preach virtue while secretly desiring the very vices they condemn—a common Judge magazine theme attacking hypocrisy among religious reformers.