Puck Easter

Cover No. 1308 of *Puck*, price ten cents. Louis M. Glackens pictures a fashionable young woman in a floral bonnet and lavender dress strolling arm-in-arm with an anthropomorphic Easter Rabbit—dressed in a frock coat, pince-nez, and blue trousers, basket of colored eggs in paw. Behind them, a tonsured Catholic monk recoils in comic horror, rosary swinging. The caption reads simply EASTER. The argument is gently anticlerical: *Puck* was a reliably secular, liberal magazine, and the monk's scandalized reaction mocks Church disapproval of pagan-rooted popular holiday customs. The humor is directed at institutional religion, a routine *Puck* target throughout its run.