Judge — July 21, 1928 — page 6: what you’re looking at

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# Analysis This cartoon from *Judge* magazine depicts a steam locomotive with a woman (labeled "His Wife") speaking to a man named Henry. Her caption reads: "You win, Henry—you would come by train!" The satire appears to comment on a domestic dispute about transportation methods. The man insisted on traveling by train despite his wife's (implied) preference for another mode of transport—likely an automobile, given the era when cars were becoming common but trains remained standard. The joke's point: Henry was "right" to take the train, as the image humorously shows the locomotive crowded with multiple people and chaos, suggesting the train journey was so unpleasant that his wife concedes his stubbornness was justified. It's satirizing both marital conflict and the comparative comfort of emerging automobile travel versus crowded rail transportation.