Judge, 1925-12-19 · page 25 of 39
Judge — December 19, 1925 — page 25: what you’re looking at
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This is a travel humor comic strip following an American woman named Betty touring French locations. The satire relies on fish-out-of-water observations: **The jokes:** - At the Porte Guillame (a medieval fortified gate in Chartres), Betty quips that the narrow gate-opening prevents "gate crashing"—a pun on both literal gate design and the American slang term for sneaking into events uninvited. - Observing French wives must have "pull" to manage farmer husbands—likely satirizing French rural marriage dynamics as requiring political maneuvering. - At a restaurant, a Greek owner asked about spire cake (presumably a local specialty), which Betty now understands was a cultural misunderstanding. - The final panel compares fish congregating in schools at Ponte des Minimes to wealthy people ("big fish") gathering in exclusive American social circles. The strip uses Betty's naive American perspective to gently mock both French culture and American pretension.
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