Judge — May 30, 1925 — page 8: what you’re looking at

What you’re looking at

# Page Analysis This page contains two cartoons satirizing 1926 social attitudes. **Top cartoon:** A man thrown into water by what appears to be a winged figure, with the caption "I can't find a life-preserver but I'll throw you a good swimmer!" — a joke about unhelpful rescue attempts. **Bottom cartoon:** The main satire depicts a fictional "Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Bathing Girls" that provides large water tanks at newsstands. The joke targets moral panic about women's bathing suits: the society humorously suggests that displaying images of girls in swimwear at newsstands is so offensive it requires providing tanks of water for shocked passersby to recover in. This mocks the era's conservative attitudes toward women's bodies and the emerging shorter, more revealing bathing suits of the 1920s.