Judge — April 1, 1893 — page 16: what you’re looking at

What you’re looking at

This Judge magazine page presents Easter-themed visual jokes. The cartoons mock Victorian-era fashion and social conventions: 1. **Top panels**: Satirize elaborate Easter fashions and activities—women in ornate dress, fashionable outings. 2. **"Chrysanthemum device"**: Mocks the impractical fashion advice to prevent slouching in children, suggesting absurd mechanical contraptions. 3. **Bald head decoration**: Jokes that men could disguise baldness by painting bald heads to resemble decorated Easter eggs. 4. **Milliner's bill**: Satirizes women's extravagant spending on Easter bonnets—a notorious expense—by suggesting the receipt itself become a bonnet decoration, humorously acknowledging the excessive cost. The satire targets consumerism, fashion excess, and the elaborate preparations surrounding Easter celebrations in early 20th-century America.