Puck Easter

Cover No. 1308 of Puck, price ten cents. Louis M. Glackens pictures a fashionable young woman in a floral bonnet and lavender dress strolling arm-in-arm with an anthropomorphic Easter Rabbit—dressed in a frock coat, pince-nez, and blue trousers, basket of colored eggs in paw. Behind them, a tonsured Catholic monk recoils in comic horror, rosary swinging. The caption reads simply EASTER. The argument is gently anticlerical: Puck was a reliably secular, liberal magazine, and the monk's scandalized reaction mocks Church disapproval of pagan-rooted popular holiday customs. No racial caricature appears here; the humor is directed at institutional religion, a routine Puck target throughout its run.