February 12, 1921, was a Saturday, and hence the day that a lot of print magazines hit the magazine stands, and mailboxes.
Leslie's featured a "Lumber Jane", a woman working in the logging industry, with an illustration by Emmett Watson. We haven't featured Watson here before, but he was a period illustrator. He died in 1955.
I don't know if the term "lumber jane' is a real one. I suspect not, and the illustrator and the magazines was simply taking a highly progressive view of female emancipation, a topic of the era.
The Saturday Evening Post also came out, of course.
Frederic Stanley's illustration for the Post was supposed to be funny, and no doubt was for contemporary audiences. It features two young men at a masquerade party around Valentine's Day, and the one dressed as a clown has mistaken the one dress as a belle, as a belle. Today the message would come across with all sorts of other meanings and, because of that, it wouldn't be published at all unless those meanings were intended.
Judge also hit the stands.
Judge, which often had amusing cover illustrations, managed to go full bore creepy with a home bootlegger looking over his shoulder at imagined law enforcement as he works on raisin wine, which sounds absolutely gross.
The monument to Women's Suffrage was hauled up to the capitol rotunda on this day 1921.
Winston Churchill, a member of the British government during the Great War, and a former cavalry officer in the British Army, was appointed Secretary of Colonies on this day in 1921.
In Georgia, a Soviet backed and inspired rebellion spread.
A cocker spaniel named Midkiff Seductive took Best In Show at Westminster.
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