Judge, 1910-04-23 · page 3 of 24
Judge — April 23, 1910 — page 3: what you’re looking at
What you’re looking at
This Judge magazine page satirizes the women's suffrage movement through caricature and humor. The bottom illustration, "Going to a Suffragette's Primary," depicts women with exaggerated physical features in what appears to be a confrontational political gathering—likely mocking women's political participation as unseemly or unladylike. The top section credits "The Hall of Fame" to various male figures (Theodore Roosevelt, Jack Johnson, Booker Washington, Buffalo Bill), while "Laugh It Off" offers humorous advice about accepting life's misfortunes—possibly suggesting women should accept their political exclusion gracefully. The "Shorthanded" joke contrasts a gypsy palmist and someone named Gumbuata, though its connection to suffrage isn't entirely clear from the text alone. Overall, the page uses physical ridicule and dismissive humor to delegitimize women's political ambitions—typical anti-suffrage propaganda of the early 20th century.
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THE HALL OF FAME. Y VOX POPULI, Pro Bono Pub- lico, Consumer, and Old Sub- scriber, By Willie Cute, By 'Rastus Brown, By Rev. George Washington Jackson Jones, By A. D. T. No. 23, By the Wednesday afternoon crowd at the Mimic, By Muggsy the Mutt, By the Wabash valley litterateurs, ‘Theodore Roosevelt. His Father. Jack Johnson, Booker Washington. Buffalo Bill and James Jeffries. Mr. Faversham. “* Big Tim’ Sullivan. Tarkington, Ade, Mc- Cutcheon & Co. LAUGH IT OFF.* By S. BL RISER, WHEN you totter ‘neath a care, Laugh it off; If your butter’s full of hair, Laugh it off; If you're married to a shrew, Or your butcher's bill is due, Or you're tortured by a shoe, Laugh it off. If you're mangled in a wreck, Laugh it off; If a boil comes on your neck, Laugh it off; If a brick shoved from a wall Lands upon you in its fall, Do not be ** put out” at all— Laugh it off. If a-wasp lights on your cheek, Laugh it off; Ifa fist strikes on your beak, Laugh it off; If the lady's father’s toe, Coming upward from below, Hurts you as you swiftly go, Laugh it off. SHORTHANDED. Gunbusta—** What are your charges?” Gypsy palmist—" "ll read your hand for one dollar.’” Gunbusta —** You ought to do it for ninety cents; I’ve got one finger missing.”* comicbooks.com