Judge — April 4, 1925 — page 8: what you’re looking at

What you’re looking at

# Two Cartoons About Social Propriety **Top cartoon:** Shows a chaotic indoor scene where a man kicks wildly while others watch. The caption references "Miss Flapp" telling her mother she was "too tired to wipe dishes"—satirizing the 1920s "flapper" stereotype of young women rejecting domestic duties and traditional femininity. **Bottom cartoon:** Two women gossip in what appears to be a public space (possibly a train or carriage). One warns the other to stop talking because "some one is eavesdropping." This jokes about the social awkwardness of being overheard mid-conversation, particularly regarding potentially scandalous gossip among women. Both cartoons target early 20th-century social anxieties about changing gender roles and proper public behavior during the Jazz Age.