Judge — March 3, 1928 — page 33: what you’re looking at

What you’re looking at

This page from *Judge* magazine contains three separate cartoons satirizing early 20th-century American life: 1. **"Fire Brigade" cartoon (top)**: A couple frantically summons firefighters over an urgent matter—revealed as a minor domestic crisis. The satire mocks overwrought responses to trivial problems. 2. **"The Car" cartoon (middle)**: A husband and wife worry about selling their automobile before they're forced to keep it permanently. This jokes about the financial burden of car ownership during the early auto era, when vehicles were expensive and required constant upkeep. 3. **"Old Bus" cartoon (bottom)**: A driver attributes the car's improved performance to mysterious intervention, unaware that people are literally pushing it from behind. The satire targets either the driver's obliviousness or perhaps mocks the poor reliability of early automobiles. The page also contains numerous advertisements for mail-order courses (tenor banjo lessons, cartooning school) and patent medicines (Bellans for indigestion)—typical of period publications.