Judge, 1900-12-08 · page 12 of 16
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This page features a poem titled "The Coming Woman" that satirizes late-19th-century anxieties about women's liberation and changing gender roles. The poem presents a mock-fearful vision of an empowered woman who will arrive to take control, solve social problems (the "servant problem"), and liberate men from work. The satire's target is clear in the final stanza: the "coming woman" is delayed by—of all things—arranging her hat, undermining the poem's grandiose rhetoric about female capability. This undercuts the serious feminist arguments of the era by suggesting women remain preoccupied with trivial vanities. The poem reflects Judge magazine's skeptical, often dismissive attitude toward women's suffrage and gender equality movements gaining momentum during this period. It uses humor to mock both the promise of women's liberation and, ironically, women themselves.
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THE COMING WOMAN. “THE * SALT’ OP SALTS” The coming woman 's coming ; she'll be ready ” after while, And she'll take the reins and drive us with a calm, delightful smile. == SAI T She's been coming, coming, coming, for a half a century, ‘The Sat Extracted from the duices of Fresh Fruits. @ | But she'll walk in some fine morning with a cool * Make room for me.” Alcoholic Excesses « #$ | -twitt be in the dim bereafter—dim hereatter A teaspoonful ina tumb- to be blessed— ler of water nigkt and @ | When the fashion-plates cease troubling and morning. This is a most the milliner 's at rest. ° effective drink “for the ¢ | Ah, the coming woman! Bless her, she will morning after the night show us what is what. before.” 3: 3 3: 3 3 3 She will teach us many doctrines that have ‘Thomas Thompson, M. D., Washington, never yet been taught; . mayer ol have found Abbeye Salt g | She will solve the servant problem, she will do le and shi I would advise away with cooks, Fits" of stron; : tae ne motning fa substitute, che | And she'll have the men as noble as the heroes Shes in the books. . Sold by most druggists, or sent by mail. § | Yes, the coming woman ’s coming—she is com- ‘Mc., 60c., $1.00 per bottle. ing sure as fate; ‘THE ABBEY EFFERVESCENT SALT CO., She is just delayed a ‘moment while she puts Room 3 11 Murray Street, New York. her hat on straight. Booklet free on request. Oh, the coming woman! She's the one—no ‘Marrying a woman for her beauty is like eat- duties will she shirk, ing a nightingale for its singing.—Women are When she has done all she has planned the not cruel to dumb animals, No woman wilfully man won't have to work. steps on a mouse.—When four women sit down | The world will be much better when she takes for a quiet game of whist you can’t hear the affairs in hand, silence in the next room.—A vain woman is| For the coming woman's rulings will be digni- sometimes mistaken when she thinks the whole fied and grand. world sees what she sees in her mirror —| Hark! Dost hear the coming woman from her Woman's age is a sacred thing. In the old dim and distant sphere, testament the age of only one woman is record- | In a tone that's choked with hairpins, ‘Is my ed, that of Sarah, Abraham's wife.”—Arkan- hat straight? 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