Judge — December 5, 1925 — page 8: what you’re looking at

What you’re looking at

# Explanation for Modern Readers This page contains two separate satirical cartoons from *Judge* magazine. The **top cartoon** ("Bear Hunter") depicts a hunter and dogs encountering a bear, with the caption sarcastically suggesting a squirrel skin rug as an alternative—mocking impractical or absurd solutions to problems. The **bottom cartoon** ("How to Get a Seat in the Subway") is a humorous commentary on crowded public transit. It shows a chaotic subway car where someone using shaving cream causes such a commotion that passengers flee, creating an empty seat. The joke satirizes the desperation commuters face for seating in crowded subways—suggesting that creating a disturbance (mimicking lathered madness) is the only way to secure a seat. This reflects early-20th-century frustrations with overcrowded urban mass transit.