Judge, 1920-04-03 · page 9 of 36
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# "Silk Stockings, Dice! Whuf!" - Judge Magazine Page Analysis This page contains three satirical pieces reflecting post-Prohibition Era anxieties: **"Silk Stockings, Dice! Whuf!"** mocks a young unemployed woman expecting birthday money from her parents. The joke: they send her cigarettes and *dice*—symbols of vice and gambling—rather than practical gifts. This satirizes the cultural shock of the 1920s "New Woman" openly engaging in formerly scandalous behaviors (smoking, gambling) that parents couldn't prevent. **"World-Wonder"** celebrates the collapse of Victorian moral certainties, praising the new embrace of imagination over rigid rules—a direct commentary on generational rebellion against Prohibition and traditional constraints. The **three short joke pieces** satirize modern economic chaos: a wedding scheduled by bank closing hours, women who jilt poor suitors, and hiring an "ex-princess" as a cook—all reflecting Depression-era class instability and role reversals. The cartoons' loose, energetic drawings by Norman Anthony and C.F. Peters match the anarchic, anti-establishment tone.
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Siik Stockings, Dice! Whuf! By Kutuervorn Rennie NM ADELINE was out of luck and ou ANE of a job. She was alone among a score of up-to-the-second girl friends in a big city gone dry. Her thirty-five dollars a week had kept silk things hanging over the back of chairs; but spats do tear the stockings at any time, and summer hats were appearing in shop windows She needed everything that a gay young lady could need and had almost written home to the folks in Rockland when she bethought herself that in two days she would have her twenty-first birthday Mother and father had never forgotten her birthday, and there was no reason to. suppose that they would forget this one. her first away from home. They would send her— She wasn’t sure; but they would gi her lots of things. They always did, and they couldn't go wrong for she needed lots of things. She would have a party. The Day dawned and postmen came ‘The package arrived in the afternoon and was hurriedly opened. There were $ from father and a carton of cigerettes and a pair of dice from There is everywhere apparent: the beginnings of a. tre mother. mendous reaction against rules, regulations, certainties and commonplaces. World-Wonder “These are wonderful times we are living in,” is be By Bexjasny DeCassenes sinning to be a commonplace observation e must be as litde children to enter the Kingdoms Tr Wonder coming back? of Wonder and Mirth. If we are on the threshold of our Is there a renaissance of Amazement in the world? second childhood, it bodes ill for the witch-hunters, the Is Logic going out of fashion and the deported Cinderella joy-sleuths and the propagandists of world-seriousness. the Spirit of Magic. to take the centre of the ballroom Wonder and Mirth are the swinging doors to universal | liberty, Emerson said nothing i ever settled about any lay smoking, and In thing. We are beginning, maybe, to at list understand the humor of the gods. Quite Necessary “We must have the wedding at two, not four, dearest.” “But, Fred, I wished it at four, = Why now?” “Your father is going to give us a check for a wedding present, isn’t he?” “Yes—but what has that to do with ne” “Why, darling, don’t: you know that the banks close at three?’ No Shortage of Jilts With gay coquettes don’t get in wrong When you go forth to court They never keep a fellow lonj Yet jilt him when he’s short Very Royal “Lots of royalty out of work.” “That explains our new cook.” “Eh?” “L think I've hired an ex-princess.” “Yelre in luck mister! Dat whistle wuz a delegate of the Burglar’s Union callin’ us out on strike!” comicbooks.com