Judge, 1886-03-27 · page 6 of 16
Judge — March 27, 1886 — page 6: what you’re looking at
What you’re looking at
This page contains two distinct items: **"The Lady Who Smokes"** (left): A lengthy essay defending women smoking cigarettes. The author invokes Thackeray's *The Newcomes* to argue that tobacco use among respectable ladies is now socially acceptable, comparing historical anxieties about women smoking to outdated prudishness. The piece dismisses concerns about health or propriety as old-fashioned. **"Irony"** (right): A cartoon depicting two men on a city street observing fashionable women. One says to the other: "Say, Riley, yer better'd go overslide 'ide sheepey'll pull you in 'n make you buy a new coat." The joke appears to mock fashionable women's clothing as so elaborate or expensive that men must avoid them—satirizing contemporary fashion excess or women's consumer habits. The page reflects late-19th-century social debates about women's independence, consumer culture, and changing gender roles.
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JUDGE. THE LADY WHO SMOKES. i IRONY. THACKERAY AND THE VIRTUES OF THE LEAF-MOTHER GOOSE REVIVED-THE MUSICAL BEADS. WO cireum stances have ne / cently broug before m with d > one of the 8 that time ought 1 has w among us, Thackeray's “* Neweomes,” several pas in wh represented as sion of their respective qu horse-racing line indulg nf the most conservativ respectable of all ladies’ journals—and it is ne of the nt reformations, along with and other reprehensible mascu then Ty ud. proper and truly dl up. one handly necessary to add, of course, most popular and wide little disquisition on the ladies ¢ sin holders, and the various f. . boudoir ash-receivers aphernalia which the in invented for the complication of cies, in jeweled ton; and other pretty p | genious hy this simple sinful pleasure. do let me remind you, for I distrust your fresi: great writer, how he Mt t Before I get too far away from Thacke rs 4 inthis same book that the Vicomte de ater folly, At le tionable ity from a © to satisfy the | follower of den which springs | self, and that us itis felt to | proad was at a certain. time engaged in ng a “little paper 1 from Pepy’s diary, doesn’t it ¢ y thought he knew al i about them; but we have added to the re of the world and the flesh, and some people think also to those of the last of the i famous trio, since his day. yar.” It sounds good « the orchestral vanced that | beads have To be sure there are cireles so a soul it has already entirely lost its prec barbs of unlawfulness. another recently, speak ment woolen dress that she was Jaunching out into daring There are old-fashioned folk who still sup- pose that ladies are forbidd yas thes comparison is off—what are ladies forbidden now-a-days? Atany rate not The most correct and swell smoke cretively but in the most select circles, and | after the most recherche dinners | many things are chiefly matters of ass and perhaps when the | the old ones replaced by their new « this subject they won't feel so badly about it depths which her acquaintance was probably Uy educated up Do 3 No,” stid the other, an unimpeach istocratic visitor from British shores, never; smc from. th itis 1 indulgence in tobacco as complet are—but—my ly this music of the wars generally.” [hope the | Tt isto be hoped that t cigurettes will do our belles a while yet. The | confine her share in it to priva talk about the peculiar harmfulness of ettes bey be ambiguous, gammon, The smo not get as much tobacco in a pack of them as | having been audible ov in one r, which is, undoubtedly, | strations of suffer nd why the doc : e such a lot of td not an impressiv nd other forms of tobacco is, r does Doubtless som yung women, just to prove that they are not disagreably supe: strength of mind to the lords of creatic form ahabit of smoking too much; but conyineing the small be ured things by the abuses to which — feminine and emasculat y are liable what would become of a gi to wean him from an indulg many noble factors of civilization, such as suited to his years, feminine morals political liberty, or religious zeal have suffered in vain. As for the Broadway railroad? Though I don’t care to. they are more easily manage undertake to prove right here that the ci , ette exactly ranks with any of these as a boon to the race. “ife (putting her arm “Not for my sake, love? Husband (firmly) You see, I'm opposed to te ittle girls, and can be counted on to content themselves with imita ting their mammas in cubebs, or to that pleasure altogether if they are told that ae it is not the thing and that the little . principle that small girls never do it. 'S are some insuranc nst large ones, a = principle not exactly logically demonstrable, | The young lady of literature who, havi not recommending itself to those ¢ rings on her fingers and bells on hy is favored with music wherever sh has, for some time past, had a riv: follower of fe these _prohibitionists not a brainy man anks | Wife (smiling dear. Nevertheless, on th nglish: perienced people who have found some w ness necessary to the good of humanity cigarette may be accepted, if not welcome as probably forming a stop-ga F poems, in nst_ some otalism: bec ea poor lot, TI them; th “T see rly everybody eclipse Mother Goose's. heroine altogether in line. Yes, Us the outer half beads; that they as well as can be had in every shade humb! ail same) of ding ail pre ding lady. will » life for it is profes. L to | sional tears and. torments, as has been very tink! I] the direst demon . from Miss Burrow ts and Sinners.” CARROLL. CHRISTIE. his in vusness, DIDN'T BELIEVE IN PROHIBITION. nd)—"T wish you would take ledly)—“ Couldn't think of it, , not even for that, what you , indeed, meet a » word, | than anything that Mr. Longfellow ever wrote. comicbooks.com