Judge, 1893-03-04 · page 3 of 16
Judge — March 4, 1893 — page 3: what you’re looking at
What you’re looking at
This page satirizes women's increasing participation in activities previously considered inappropriate for ladies. The main cartoon depicts an elephant attempting to ice skate, with captions like "Ah, now watch me," "How does this strike you?" and "Great Scott! I'm losing my balance." The accompanying editorial, "The Woman Who Dares," critiques women adopting horseback riding and other traditionally masculine pursuits. The text argues such activities are unseemly and that women pursuing notoriety through daring exploits should be discouraged. The elephant serves as absurdist commentary—just as an elephant cannot properly skate, the satirist implies, women cannot properly engage in these "unnatural" activities. The piece reflects late Victorian/Edwardian anxieties about changing gender roles and women's expanding social freedoms.
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RS. POTTER PAL- MER was recently published in a contem- porary as a lady who had died, but we are happy to say that she survives both the situation and the pict- ure. HE GIRLS of Welles- ley college have de- clared for home rule in Ireland, but Mr. Glad- stone is still awaiting with poignant anxiety the decision of the girls of Vassar. see THE SEVERAL MIL- LIONS that were sent here by the French in behalf of the Panama canal are totally lost and nobody knows what be- came of them. Somebody ae Bers ‘ CRA TUDE ee at | Miss Gravsius—"* Why, gentlenien, what means this—this unseemly conduct 7” must have started a new Cuorus (of thankful humanity)—" Madam, we want you to see that we are truly grateful to you for your thoughtfulness in daily newspaper. giving us a sight of the stage.” OUT OF HIS ELEMENT. ‘A MAN in Washington went crazy from house-hunting. Thousands of other men would do the same thing if they didn’t know enough to leave that business to their wives, who thrive on it. Nothing pleases a woman more. If all women could spend their lives hunting for houses not one of them would be lascivious or otherwise bad. If Eve might have devoted herself to house-hunting and the deliciousness of telling how tired she was because thereof she would have looked upon the apple with bitter scorn. THE WOMAN WHO DARES. ‘TOO MANY WOMEN have adopted the horsewhip as a defense for or a vindication of their more or less sacred honor. They find that the newspapers praise them and they seem to like that kind of notoriety. Of course, the man who is whipped gets no sympathy. He may be totally innocent, but that makes no difference. The woman may be good, bad or indifferent, a fiend or a fool; but the man’s innocence never comes up for consideration. He has been flogged by a woman, and that ends him. Now this must be stopped. It must be established that no lady will horsewhip anybody, for that is the fact. And if, some time, the male turns on the virago, the female notoriety-seeker, and punishes her as mothers punish their children, he will get a vote of thanks. ——Great Scott! I'm losing my balance. — —Contound it! I ought to have had better sense.” THE ELEPHANT SKATES. comicbooks.com