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# "The Tragedy of Maud Marie" and Related Humor This page contains three satirical pieces mocking 1920s social anxieties: **"The Tragedy of Maud Marie"** (top): A story ridiculing the elaborate beauty rituals upper-class women performed before going out. The "tragedy" is that despite hours of cosmetics, styling, and preparation—massaging with cold cream, powdering, darkening eyebrows, curling hair, manicuring—Maud arrives at the cabaret feeling "dreadfully undressed" because she forgot a beaded necklace. It satirizes both women's exhausting beauty standards and the superficiality of fashionable society. **Bottom cartoons** mock domestic life: "The Riot Signal" jokes that a "Flat to-let" (apartment for rent) sign causes neighborhood commotion; "A Housekeeper's Guide" depicts a budget-conscious wife marking grocery items she *cannot* afford rather than those she can—suggesting Depression-era economic anxiety inverted as housewifely thrift. The page reflects Judge's satirical approach to modern consumer culture and gender roles of the era.
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Draven by Barkspace Rogers well matched Gladys—They are Murtel—Rather! a grass-widew and he's The Tragedy of Maud Marie By Katuertne Nectey HIS is the sad story of Maud Marie Her sweetheart invited her to go to a cabaret with him and she wanted to look her very best After her perfumed bath, she lay down on the couch and relaxed for a half hour Then she drew on her silk hose and her slippers which were very high of heel and very pointed of toe n by Russ Westover don't you think? 7 She massaged her face with cold cream, powdered it lightly, touched her lips, chin and cheeks with rouge, then powdered again. Her eyebrows were already shaved to the regulation thin line and she darkened them a little with an eve- brow pencil. She touched her eye lashes to make them look longer. She puffed her hair over her ears and coiled it low in the back She manicured her nails and rubbed cold cream into her elbows Her skirt was very long and her waist was very low. Her hat and wrap were of the latest design. She sat down in front of the mir- ror and practised bringing and hold ing a sweet expression. But when she finally arrived, sh« felt dreadfully undressed. She had forgotten her bead chain and every lady there had some sort of beads around her neck. The Riot Signal Mother (returning from shop- ping)—Dorothy, what is the mean- ing of this crowd in front of the house? Dorothy—It’s all sister's fault We were playing house, and she hung a “Flat to-let” sign in the front window. A Housekeeper’s Guide “Oh, I see,” said the young husband. “You stick little peg alongside the name of everything you want uy at the grocery.” hat used to be the idea,” said the young wife, as she gazed at the board with its double row of little “But now [ stick a peg alongside the names of afford. It s a lot of time.” hings we can't : THE TIMES 8 comichooks.