Judge — November 12, 1927 — page 21: what you’re looking at

What you’re looking at

This page contains editorial notes and joke sketches lampooning New York stereotypes and social types, likely from the early 20th century. **The top section** is editor Jefferson Machado's note crediting a young female artist ("pretty girl") for contributing a portrait sketch to the magazine—a tongue-in-cheek acknowledgment of her work appearing in print. **The lower section** presents brief comedic dialogue snippets: - "Sidewalks of New York" jokes about blood pressure and class - "Tenth Avenue" and "Manhattan Mary" sketches satirizing working-class New Yorkers and their speech patterns - "White Lights" depicts stereotypical young women concerned with dating and appearance The humor targets lower-class New Yorkers through dialect, preoccupations with money/romance, and provincial attitudes—typical of Judge's satirical approach to urban American types of that era. The sketches reflect period attitudes toward immigrants and working-class populations.