Judge, 1883-07-07 · page 13 of 16
Judge — July 7, 1883 — page 13: what you’re looking at
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The main cartoon depicts a well-dressed woman and a working-class man with a small dog, illustrating a joke about women's ability to keep secrets. The text beneath jokes that while women are "great deal better than a man" at keeping secrets in general, they cannot keep a secret "on the dead run more miles in more hours" — the implication being that women will inevitably gossip about juicy information. This reflects late-19th-century gender stereotypes portraying women as inherently talkative and unreliable with confidential information. The cartoon mocks Victorian assumptions about feminine nature through exaggerated contrast: women are simultaneously praised and condemned for their chattiness. The page also contains miscellaneous short humorous anecdotes and advertisements (for electric lighters and organs), typical of Judge's satirical format combining social commentary with advertising.
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