Judge — October 31, 1925 — page 17: what you’re looking at

What you’re looking at

This page satirizes social changes in women's roles and Prohibition-era America (likely 1920s Judge magazine). **Top cartoon**: "Remarkable change in the position of woman in twenty-five years" shows a woman literally riding atop a man in both images, but with a subtle difference—suggesting women's increased social dominance or independence over 25 years. **Birthday poem**: A man laments he couldn't afford gloves for a woman years ago, now giving her sweets instead—satirizing changed courtship economics. **Anti-Prohibition lecture**: Mocks Prohibition enforcement by joking that leaving America for alcohol is like traveling abroad just to buy a sandwich—absurdly inefficient. **"War Paint" cartoons**: Compare how Native Americans and modern women painted themselves "Then and Now," likely satirizing women's increased use of cosmetics as a form of "war paint" or social warfare. Overall, the page reflects Judge's satirical tone toward women's changing social status, Prohibition's unpopularity, and modernizing American culture in the 1920s.