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# "Papa Wouldn't Buy Me a Bow-Wow" Cartoon Analysis This cartoon satirizes women's suffrage opposition through a domestic scene. A well-dressed man refuses to buy his child a dog, while the child protests tearfully. The caption quotes the popular song "Papa Wouldn't Buy Me a Bow-Wow." The satire compares suffragists to spoiled children demanding treats—implying women seeking voting rights are petulant and unreasonable. The "papa" (government/male authority) refuses their "demands" just as the father refuses his child's pleas. This reflects early 20th-century anti-suffrage arguments that portrayed women voters as childish and unfit for political participation. The cartoon mocks suffragists by equating their political aspirations with childish whining, a common rhetorical tactic of the era.

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PUBLISHED ONCE A WEEK. TERMS TO SUBSCRIBERS. UNITRD STATRS AND CANADA IN ADVARCR. One copy, one year. of 52 numbers - $5.00 One copy, six months, or 26 numbers - 2.50 One copy, for thirteen weeks == 1.25 Including the Cuwistaas JuDGR. FOREIGN SUBSCKIPTIONS—To alt forcien countries in the postal union, $0.00 a year. THE JUDGE PUBLISHING COMPANY (Juncr BuiLINc), Corner Fifth Avenue and Sixteenth Street, New York. RTE PUBLISHERS of the New Vork weekly JUDGE notify the public that the nse of JUDGE in local advertising schemes by printing and inserting advertising pages between ite leaves is a direct violation of the publisher® rights under the copy right nd all copies of JUDGE are sold upon the express condition that they will not ‘be used for such purpotes. No one is authorized by the publishers to wise JUDGE in this manner,and they will take prompt measures to stop anybody from 10 using their paper. Notice is hereby given that the United States circuit court has recently granted an in Junction restraining the use of JUDGE in that wa} JUDGE PUBLISHING COMPANY, 110 Fifth ar » New York. 7 NOTICE TO PURLISHERS.—The contents of Junax are protected by copy- right in both the United States and Great Britain, Infringement of this copyright will be promptly and vigorously prosecuted. THE COURTES Y’ of the senate consists largely of discourtesy. HE CZAR may be safer with the nobility at his back, but he won't be so much of a czar. HE MEMBERS of the ladies’ foot ball‘club of London hope to be able presently to wear their hair short, chew tobacco and swear. will not be ex-Queen Lil's home during her exile, but she an go to Washington and swap com- pliments with Mr. Gresham, LAYING BILLIARDS is not a good way to pass a Sunday, but the law that prohibits it is a bigger sin than the game or anything that belongs to it. P four-hundred society organization over SRHAPS MR. MCALLISTER has discovered that there is no. there, but we dare say he is reorganiz~ ing the choir. CASIMIR-PERIER got a thousand dollars a day cessor will be equ emergency, but onl We trust his suc- 1 to that kind of a brave man-can earn the money. NRI ROCHEFORT has been in Paris several days and no revolu- tion yet. Henri must be feeble as well as old, but we observe that his hair has its old bang and pugnecity, on we “PAPA WOULDN'T MISSION of the ideal woman, according to Miss Willard, is to ake the whole world homelike. ‘This lady ought to reflect that the ideal woman may easily have too many F THE KAISER does visit a world’s fair in Paris we trust he will be more considerate than were his grandfather and father, who on a Icss pleasing occasion took the German army with them. *sMEN TO-DAY,” says a woman-suffragist, know more about elec- tricity than about women.” Well, what can this lady expect? ‘The men who have had the most radical experience with those agencies are so dead that they can’t talk. They may have the utmost information, but they cannot circulate it iE GISLATION is not going to abolish or displace the tall theatre- If it might do that it might regulate the other portions of a lady's wardrobe, and that would never do. The way is to elevate the stage. The way to reform is more simple. Put it directly under the roof, and pro- vide rests for the over-burdened neck. BUY ME A bowW-wow." OUR FOREIGN RULERS. HE RKOTHSCHILDS are the treasury of several monarchies. Itisa pity that they should become the financial autocrats of this republic, Must the time come when we shall have to ask their consent to any par- ticular policy of war or peace? care of itself. sagacity. This government is rich enough to take Under a Democraric administration it lacks the necessary A NEW DEMAND. ‘+GIVE US SOME TERM other than ‘mister’ for a man, so that we may know whether he is married or single,” says a woman writer. Some years since a spinster demanded that she and all like her be called “Mrs. so that their singleness might not be known to a cruel world It’s a poor rule that doesn’t work both ways, and these agitators are al- ways inconsistent. WOMEN LEGISLATORS. HE THREE WOMEN who are members of the Colorado legislature are voluble, and quick to talk when there is an emergeni there isn’t. —and when It 1s complaining and be- seeching and explaining with regard to themselves. ‘They are conspicuous and they like it, but it worries them. of them, to be strictly The talk is not oratory, however. Let us s just, that they are the fines: scolders of the woolly west. ATTACK ON THE BALLOT-BOX. TWO HUNDRED AND TEN LADIES of Massachusetts, prominent socially and otherwise, petition their legislature against woman - suffrage. Ie ought to occur to them that if they don’t want to vote they needn't, Other women, equally good and_ prominent, do want to vote; and to say that to let them would lead to evil things is to indict that system of government, which is surely more just than any other, THE BOSTON SEPULCHRE, LL SED that the Boston public library is so poor that it can't buy a dew book for the next ten years That makes it the kind of institution its managers ‘want. They look with horror on live literature. They want theirs dead, the deader the better. They have'a fine building, and that is enough for them if they don’t happen ~ ‘to have any literature at all. Give them “sa few aged official documents ‘from. Washington and they'll live ‘happily and ‘die between snores. MODERN JUSTICE, ARIE. JONIAUX of Belgium, convicted ‘of the poisoning of three persons, goes ‘toa solitary cell for life, She will see nobody, the cell will be continually dark, and it is thought she will go mad and die in less than two years, In England they are more enlightened. They allow Mrs. Maybrick work and companionship and treat her gently. <There is a difference between the two, however. Maybrick is undoubtédly innocent. Joniaux is probably guilty and WHY NOT A LITTLE CHARITY? HERE-ARE SURELY some persons in this world who would like to se€ Colonel Breckinridge turn upon a couple of-bis-enemies and par- tially destroy them, ‘The action of members of congress’ in covertly in- sulting him, and of all newspapers invabusing hiin’ at a safe distance, that of the pack of wolves that tear to pieces a fallen companion. Are all of these men and these newspapers so excellently good that they can afford to nag a bad and a beaten man like so many bloodhounds ? SUNDAY NUISANCES, THE FREEDOM of this town on Sunday is confined largely to. the local ordinances prohibiting liberty of action and conscience, and the crazy busybodies who want notoriety for enforcing them. Selling small articles on the streets by persons who need money is no crime, and the game of billiards is as legitimate exercise as walking. On Sundays it is as proper for one to do as he pleases, as long as he hurts nobody, as it is on other days. The fools who prohibit liberty on Sunday are inviting danger. comicbooks.com