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What societal values do you see reflected in the cartoons?
How are these values depicted in the literature
of the 'twenties?
Which are celebrated, which criticized? Do you
find any ambivalences?
YOUNG
BRIDE (closing the Book of Etiquette): Oh dear, I don't know what to
do! Here I have the minister coming to dinner and I simply can't find
out if I should serve cocktails before or after grace.
Ethel
Plummer
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"What
are your college colors?"
"Orange
and gin."
Arthur
Dove
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"Have
a cigarette, Ethel. You're attracting an awful lot of attention by not
smoking."
C. F.
Peters
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"Helen,
I declare, your dress scarcely covers your body.
"What's
the matter with my body?"
Ethel
Plummer
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"Where
can I be vaccinated so that it will not show?"
"On
the ear."
John
Held
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THE NEGLECTED ONE'S MOTHER:
She's really a sweet little thing, even if she is shallow.
THE
FAMILY FRIEND:
But just the type, my dear, that gets us men in beyond our depth.
Walter
De Maris
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"What are you thinking of, granny?"
"I was
remembering the costume that I used to go bathing in,
and I was wondering what your granddaughter would wear."
J.
Conacher
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SHE:
At this distance it's hard to tell the men from the women.
HE:
Yes, at this distance it's not worth trying.
Ethel
Plummer
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Galosh!
BEWILDERMENT
OF OLD PARTIES AT RECENT
DEVELOPMENT IN YOUNG WOMEN'S FOOTGEAR
W.
Morgan
Open,
flapping galoshes, a 'twenties fad, is said to
have given the name to the Flappers.
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