Judge — October 3, 1925 — page 14: what you’re looking at

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This page from Judge magazine presents "Betty Goes Abroad to St. Germain"—a humor series following a young American woman touring Paris landmarks. The satire works through Betty's irreverent American perspective on European culture. She makes jokes treating serious antiquities casually: questioning whether the National Museum houses elderly men, commenting that carving statues daily seems tedious, and comparing a classical "Love and Folly" sculpture to a Follies chorus girl (referencing the Ziegfeld Follies theatrical revue). The humor relies on the contrast between dignified European heritage sites and Betty's brash, unsentimental American tourist observations. This reflects 1920s-era American attitudes—confident, somewhat philistine, and dismissive of old-world pretension. The cartoons gently mock both Betty's vulgarity and, implicitly, European reverence for antiquity. The artist appears to be Robert Patterton.