Judge, 1887-10-01 · page 3 of 16
Judge — October 1, 1887 — page 3: what you’re looking at
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# Analysis of Judge Magazine Page This page contains three satirical pieces mocking women in politics during the Gilded Age. **"How Should She Know"**: A husband worried about "softening of the brain" tells his wife he may go insane. She retorts that she wouldn't notice the difference—a jab at male incompetence. **"The Boom for F.F.C."**: References a proposed candidacy for the president's wife (appears to be First Lady Frances Cleveland). The satire ridicules the notion she'd make a good president while simultaneously praising her loyalty to her husband—implying women belong in subordinate domestic roles, not politics. **"Preparing for Contingencies"**: A father warns his son against putting hands in pockets, explaining he'll need to keep them there after marrying "the dude you are engaged to"—a joke about financial dependence on a wealthy spouse and emasculation through marriage. The underlying theme: women seeking political power are absurd; their proper sphere is supporting men, not leading independently.
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HOW SHOULD SHE KNOW, race, Lam nearly worried to death.” 1y. dear * ell, Dr. Van Nux informs ine that Lain threatened with softening of the brain !* ‘so you are fearful that you may be stricken with temporary insanity then ¥* Mr. Tam.” Mas. S.— Well, you had better inquire of the doctor how we are to recognize the change. If itcomes, I should think it diMcult, very.” lowest, genialest sunshine of any of the months; the brightest nings. the best nights, with irst of the autumn fires at the country home. That's vacation. Everything of that kind that. has preceded it is unworthy of the word. WIGGINS PREDICTED an awful m for the 19th inst., but ha, ha! it didn't come. Get up, old baldy; and next time—, It seems that the thing is to occur on the 19th of next month, and our readers will bear us out in the assertion that we have always had the profoundest respect for Mr. Wiggins. THE BOOM FOR F. F.C. The country would join in the JvpGE's boom and elect this pres- dent's wife president, if not for fear that she, like the loyal wife she is, would turn the office over to her husband.—Buffalo Ex- press. She could not do it, sir. All Propriety would forbid, not to mention the constitution. It would not be fair or honorable, and she isa just woman. Granted that she might make Grover an adjunct to or an incident of her administration, but the matrimo- PREPARING FOR CONTINGENCIES. Jon’t son know It is bad manners to put your hands in your pocketa‘” Tam only practicing.” To put my hands in ty pockets, for I shall have to keep them there all the time after you have married the dude you ai nial preferences would go no further than that. As a loyal wife she must first be a loyal woman, and her first duty as president would have to do with the people, the constitution and the laws. The country need have z It can vote for the candidate with the in her success both at the polls and in the ad- ministration of the chief office. SHE MOVES RIGHT ON, T. Ochiltree cordially indorses the Jupae’s lovely candidate for i He saw her at Phila- delph vasenraptured. We have a half suspicion that the honorable gentleman gives his allegiance in succession to such pretty women as he happens to meet, the last having the prefer- ence over the first and fifth and ninth, and so on; but he certainly makes no po*> selections, and his good sense 2nd political wisdom will teach him the advisability of remaining faithful to this one, who is many times over a good- enough Morgan tillafter election. d, truth to tell, how many ac cessions to her cause that young inadvertently and uncon- usly de duri the late centennial i had been a vote of the assembled tens of thousands she would have carried every voter, a few of the women, and all of the children.