Judge — July 19, 1924 — page 12: what you’re looking at

What you’re looking at

# "Hell Hath No Fury Like a Summer Morn" This Judge cartoon satirizes domestic life during hot summer weather. A man sits at a desk working while his wife (standing, partially undressed from heat) looms over him with evident frustration. Children and other figures surround them in a sweltering interior, with exaggerated heat lines indicating oppressive temperature. The caption plays on Shakespeare's "Hell hath no fury like a woman scorned," but applies it to summer discomfort instead. The joke suggests that a wife's irritability during unbearable summer heat—when homes lacked air conditioning—rivals any theatrical rage. The cartoon mocks both the physical misery of summer and the domestic tensions it creates, portraying the husband as stoically enduring his wife's heat-induced bad temper while trying to work.