Judge, 1909-04-10 · page 2 of 16
Judge — April 10, 1909 — page 2: what you’re looking at
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This page contains three distinct sections: an editorial essay "When Women Vote," two related cartoons, and a "Pen Points" column with accompanying illustrations. The main article argues for women's suffrage, claiming equal labor division would benefit families. The cartoons illustrate this through domestic scenes: one shows a man pouring liquid on a child (titled "Weaning the Baby"), satirizing male incompetence at childcare. "Pen Points" discusses Hetty Green's daughter teaching her husband financial responsibility, suggesting women possess superior economic judgment. A final cartoon depicts a man being poured upon by a woman, inverting traditional power dynamics. The satire uses exaggerated male incompetence to argue women deserve voting rights and greater household authority. The tone is pro-suffrage, though it relies on gender stereotypes about women's "natural" domestic superiority.
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Fifth Aves New York, Cable Address, “Judgark.” Tel. 6032 Madison :iq::are. JOHN A. SLEICHER, P FLW. Sa Secretary. Arthur Terry, Treasurer Weorran Aoverte wn 1136.7 Marquette Building, Chicago, Ul James M. Lee, Managing Editor. Grant E. Hamilton, Art Editor. wiek Hutldin t.00 30 2 .S le ip advance by draft on New York, or by express or postal order, mat by local checks ‘1 New Vork Cy. To Canadian Provinces The contents of JUDGE are orotected by cooyright im both the United States and Great Britain. CONTIKUTORS must inctose # stamped and self-addressed envelope woth all manascrDtsy otherivise return of the latter when found unaparlacie cannot be guaranteed. cents a your Wor pom Net ampany, Revam'sbiiding, Chancery Oners, iF reach's News Aachange, Ma Fomoraan sans auants 6 Tomtom; Uirentane 4 Avenue te Germany, bbe found a1 any ocws-etand, the pebilabers will be ander obligations if that fact be promptly reported on postal-card or by letter. ' 4 JUD0E « +30 cent HACK NUMBERS Pr 7: 1908, 20 conte the ledger oumber on wheit wrapper. Ftom two to three weeks mast WHEN WOMEN VOTE. PEN POINTS. HEN the tim pidly approach- ‘CORDING to press reports, Hetty Green's daughter is teach- ing, when the word male isstricken from the Consti- ing her husband to walk and thus save cab hire. She is said mitted to vote, we shall to have remarked that her husband must be more careful about ertain labor laws of far- financial matters, now that he has to support a wife. ‘There is mex, now apparently tution and women are look for the enaetment of reaching, effect, ‘There are J too many eight-hour men with twenty-four-hour wives in this country, and one of the first pleasing features of woman's imminent emancipation should be measures for the relief of madar nm rises at four Kk fast who under ¢ syst morning to jet psieur's by ady, cleans up the house after he b parted for his pl children’s faces a school between eixgh sieur's garments during the for pares the midday meal for the noon, darns socks, and serubs th throughout the afternoon, cooks the dinner at twilight, and spends the evening putting the youngsters to bed, tidying things \d washing the dinner dishes before go- ing to bed herself. Just what form these new laws will take in their final expression it is difficult to say, but it is just possible that a more equal division of labor could be brought about if men w their own breakfasts and t bed, thus relievin, at both ends of th ss Will not be obtained until s« thing, ix done to distribute y the thirty-two hours of labor in every twenty-four that now 1» families. It is indeed good to have the fleet back with us a, Now, if Japan decides to declare war, and vades the country from the West, we in the East will have something to escape across the water in, in case the invader gets as far as Jersey City. f business, scours the 1 gets them ready for do nine, washes mon- floor mily CAN ON?!E ing like starting in carly at the game. Bring up a husband in n brought up, and when he is not the way most of us ought to hav old he won't depart from it. In any event, complete equality of t devolve upon a vast majority of our hum Recently a New York girl at the marriage altar promised, in the | place of “‘love, honor, and obey," to “love and humor’ her husband. In one sense of the latter word Jupce stands ready to help her. If the pleasing plan of Repre- sentative Landis, for the erection of a summer White House at West Point, goes through, it is to be hoped that it will be suitably named, so as properly to differenti- ate it from the White Hou Washington, In vi qualities of the season for which it is designed, why would it not be all it the Green House? WEANING “THE BARY comicbooks.com