Judge — May 1, 1926 — page 8: what you’re looking at

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# Explanation for Modern Readers This page contains two satirical cartoons about 1920s "flappers"—young women known for defying social conventions through shorter skirts and modern behavior. **Top cartoon:** Depicts women in Pikeville, Indiana circumventing a local ordinance requiring skirts to be within six inches of the ground. The women are shown crawling or crouching to comply technically while exposing their legs—mocking both the restrictive law and the flappers' creative defiance. **Bottom cartoon:** Shows a boxing scene where a manager shouts "Is that me lap? I says to knock 'im in me lap!"—apparently depicting a female boxer, further satirizing flappers as women abandoning traditional femininity for masculine activities. Both cartoons express *Judge* magazine's satirical commentary on the cultural clash between conservative communities enforcing dress codes and the emerging liberated "flapper" generation rejecting those restrictions.