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

What you’re looking at

This **Judge** comic satirizes changing social norms and generational attitudes. The title "Cross My Heart" references a popular song, and the cartoon shows an older man repeatedly asking a young woman to "stop acting like a woman" and "be sensible"—complaints about modern female behavior. The satire targets outdated masculine authority: the man tries to impose Victorian propriety while the woman dismisses his concerns. The two concluding announcements mock his irrelevance—first, that "tiger girls" no longer exist (the demure ideal he wants), and second, that fashion now dictates "pandy and cool weather" over formal propriety. The cartoon ridicules older generations' inability to accept the "New Woman" of the 1920s era: independent, fashionable, and uninterested in male disapproval. The joke is on the bewildered man clinging to outdated standards.