Judge — June 2, 1928 — page 16: what you’re looking at

What you’re looking at

This page contains two cartoon jokes about early aviation and domestic service. **Top cartoon:** A pilot in a primitive airplane tells another aviator not to fly beyond Buffalo, as "lunch is nearly ready." The humor satirizes aviation's infancy—treating a dangerous experimental aircraft as casually as a commute, with the suggestion that lunch timing matters more than safety concerns. **Bottom cartoon:** An employer tells his maid Bridget that he "shudders" thinking she might have been carrying dishes when she could instead have been piloting an airplane. This is class-based satire: the joke mocks the employer's obliviousness to the absurdity of imagining a servant girl as an aviator. It satirizes both the aviation craze of the era and the rigid class assumptions that made such a prospect ridiculous to contemporary audiences.