Judge — March 9, 1929 — page 10: what you’re looking at

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# Judge Magazine Cartoon Analysis This page contains two satirical cartoons mocking women's behavior and marriage. **Top cartoon:** A burglar interrupts a bedroom scene, calling for help as a woman attacks him with a club. The burglar's complaint uses working-class dialect ("Wot a fool!"), suggesting he's the sympathetic figure—victimized by an aggressive woman. The satire targets "flappers" (young, modern women of the 1920s), portraying them as violent and uncontrollable. **Bottom cartoon:** An insurance agent asks a woman how she's "getting along with your second husband," implying women rapidly cycle through marriages. This ridicules women's marital instability. Both cartoons reflect period anxieties about changing women's roles in the 1920s, satirizing female independence and modern behavior as chaotic and threatening to traditional male authority. The humor depends on viewing women's agency negatively.