Judge, 1902-04-05 · page 9 of 20
Judge — April 5, 1902 — page 9: what you’re looking at
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This page contains three interconnected satirical pieces mocking early-20th-century social pretensions and absurdities: **"Easter on the Larchmont Links"** depicts a woman golfer feigning injury to gain male attention—satirizing both the affectation of women in sports and flirtatiousness disguised as helplessness. **"Why She Was Absent"** ridicules a wealthy club woman who skips a dress-reform lecture to attend an Easter sale, spending $689 on church flowers. The satire targets the hypocrisy of reform-minded ladies and conspicuous consumption. **"Shattering an Easter Ideal"** mocks a man hired as an Easter rabbit whose chickens won't lay—undermining his commercial scheme and the commercialization of Easter itself. **"This Kicking World"** (six panel strip) catalogs social complaints: servants, employers, suburbanites, railroad directors, dyspeptics, and mules all perpetually dissatisfied. It's broad social commentary on universal discontent across class lines. The overall theme: American society's self-absorbed complaints and hollow pretenses, from wealth to labor.
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oy Tiytie- EASTER ON THE LARCHMONT LINKS. Miss Suarety (as she misses her drive at the second tee and falls)—"* Oh, Fred! come and help me up. | know my ankle is turned.”* Frep (looking down admiringly)—"* Yes; and mighty well turned, too."" WHY SHE WAS ABSENT. HE janitor of the woman's club had swept and garnished Drigudds & Noshuns and cannot possibly fill my engagement this afternoon ?” “Thin, begorry!" the rooms. said the janitor, “ yez For hours he had hod best tell th’ cloob waited. yersilf. Yez'll foind it Tt was long past at th’ same sale.” the time when Madam Hyminde should have addressed the club on ‘THOUGHT IT WAS dress-reform. MILLINERY. Yet neither the ow AT'S this club nor the lecturer bill—*To had appeared. The telephone rang, and when he answered a feminine voice said, “This is Mrs. | Hyminde. Wi please announce to the club that I am detained at the spe- cial Easter sale’ at flowers for church, six hundred and eighty- nine dollars’ ?" asked the treasurer of the official board. HA “That is for the ' you : fe levsminug Easter flowers,” ex- plained the chairman. SHATTERING AN EASTER IDEAL. fg tegen Mr. Gorosrick Ransrt—'t Well, if those infernal chickens | hired don’t lay soon my reputation do—try to get A. hal as an Easter rabbit will certainly be shattered.” for the building ? 2. THIS KICKING WORLD. Bridget kicks because The madam kicks be- The suburbanite kicks The railroad director the chronic dyspeptic Trt Gntheroor, lee she basen against the poor kicks because so Kicks on general And the mule's reputa- it of tion is about gone. ery other day off, anything else todo, ee tateus % bit A amr principles. & comicbooks.com