Judge — December 26, 1925 — page 18: what you’re looking at

What you’re looking at

This page contains two separate cartoons satirizing Christmas gift-giving and children's behavior. The top cartoon, "It was the night before Xmas," shows children receiving toys from what appears to be a stern authority figure (possibly a store clerk or parent), with money scattered about—mocking the commercialization of Christmas. The bottom cartoon depicts two boys with a drum, one holding a knife. The dialogue reveals the "joke": one boy proudly claims to have invented cutting a hole through a drum, apparently unaware this destroys the instrument's function. This satirizes children's destructive "creativity" and lack of understanding about how things work—a common theme in vintage humor mocking youthful ignorance. Both cartoons use exaggerated, mischievous child characters typical of early 20th-century satirical illustration, poking fun at the chaos of Christmas gift-giving and children's poor judgment.