Judge — September 8, 1928 — page 20: what you’re looking at

What you’re looking at

This Judge magazine page contains multiple cartoons satirizing social pretension and hypocrisy. The top panel shows a wealthy man boasting about a million-dollar business deal to a fashionably-dressed woman, mocking nouveau riche bragging. The lower panels depict various characters revealing contradictions between their public personas and private behavior. One figure discusses appearing in the newspaper while claiming humility. Another character's meanness is exposed—he cheats people Friday while eating fish Thursday (suggesting religious observance). The final panel shows someone in a new suit "nobody liked," satirizing conformity and superficiality. The overall theme critiques the gap between how people present themselves socially versus their actual character and values—a common Judge magazine theme mocking 1920s-30s American society's materialism and pretension.