Judge — December 12, 1925 — page 21: what you’re looking at

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This is a humorous travel commentary featuring a character named Betty reporting from Biarritz (a French coastal resort town). The cartoon satirizes 1920s American tourist culture and European leisure society. Betty observes that European travel has improved her golf game and that she can now "address the ball in two languages." The central panel depicts high-society gatherings—the "old ruins" reference likely means both actual European historical sites and aging European aristocracy. The beach scene at bottom shows bathing and leisure activities, with the punchline that "the ocean is full of wild wives at Biarritz"—suggesting the resort attracts wealthy, uninhibited women seeking romantic adventures abroad. The satire targets both American tourists' superficial cultural engagement and European social excess, presented through Betty's gossipy observations about fashionable resort life.