Judge, 1925-09-26 · page 14 of 37
Judge — September 26, 1925 — page 14: what you’re looking at
What you’re looking at
This is a humorous comic strip about a character named Betty visiting the Palace of Versailles. The satire plays on early 20th-century American attitudes toward European history and culture. The jokes rely on anachronistic contrasts: Betty treats famous historical sites casually—bouncing on Napoleon's bed like a modern tourist, forgetting her cosmetics at the Gallery of Mirrors, and complaining that the Temple of Love is "too open" (likely a prudish reference). The final panel shows her at Marie Antoinette's home, with a note from the artist acknowledging readers will ask why Betty sits in the foreground—a meta-joke about the cartoon's composition. The humor targets both American tourists' irreverence toward European cultural monuments and contemporary social conventions around propriety and femininity (powder puffs, modesty).
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