A complete issue · 20 pages · 1910
Judge — August 27, 1910
# "The Woman Who Can't Make Her Eyes Behave" This is a Judge magazine cover from August 27, 1913. The cartoon depicts a romantic dinner scene where a man and woman sit across from each other at a candlelit table. The title suggests the satire concerns a woman whose eyes or gaze are uncontrollable or misbehaving—likely flirting or looking away inappropriately during the intimate moment. The joke appears to play on early 20th-century social anxieties about female propriety and "modern woman" behavior. A woman who "can't make her eyes behave" represents loss of feminine restraint or decorum—she cannot maintain proper courtship etiquette. This reflects period concerns about changing gender roles and women's increasing social independence during the Progressive Era.
# Analysis This page is primarily a **Budweiser beer advertisement**, not political satire. The ad features two men in period clothing (appearing to be miners or laborers based on their attire and pickaxes) discovering a Budweiser box, suggesting the product's ubiquitous availability. The headline "There is Neither East nor West, North nor South" plays on Rudyard Kipling's famous line about class divisions, here repurposed to claim Budweiser's universal market reach—"scarcely a spot in America where their matchless brew cannot be had for the asking." The ad emphasizes "Quality and Purity" as reasons for the beer's worldwide fame. This appears from the Prohibition era or early 20th century, when such advertising was common in Judge magazine, which mixed satire with commercial content.
# Analysis **Top Section:** A humorous guide to recognizing Coney Island, illustrated by a theatrical character in a tricorn hat labeled "Number Bro[cker]." The piece mocks Coney Island's chaotic sensory experience—noise, crowds, heat, and commercialism—advising readers how to identify they've arrived (broken bottles, loud vendors, competing attractions). **Bottom Cartoon:** "Near Egg Harbor" depicts what appears to be food vendors or merchants hawking provisions to travelers, with labels visible on containers reading "GAME FOWL," "GRITS," and "SCRATCH FEED." The caption suggests a humorous domestic scenario about keeping a woman "in a snug little box" and feeding her. Both pieces use satire to mock 19th-century American leisure culture and commercial exploitation of working-class entertainment destinations and food vendors.
