Judge, 1925-12-05 · page 17 of 36
Judge — December 5, 1925 — page 17: what you’re looking at
What you’re looking at
This appears to be a comic strip following "Betty" (likely a recurring character from Judge magazine) on a trip through France, visiting locations like Rocamadour and St. Céré. The humor relies on light tourist observations rather than sharp political satire: Betty comments on the picturesque but precarious positioning of French village houses, makes a pun equating the phrase "what's sauce for the goose is sauce for the gander" with farmers' daughters, and jokes that French farmers move slowly (playing on "slow motion pictures"). The strip uses typical 1920s-30s comic conventions—visual gags, puns, and gentle culture-clash humor about American tourists abroad. Rather than biting satire, it offers mild comedic observations about European architecture and rural life for Judge's American readership.
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