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This page contains **Judge magazine's satirical commentary on women's suffrage** alongside period advertisements. The **main editorial piece** (center-right) mocks anti-suffrage arguments circulating in 1909-1910. It quotes a "bright wit" who claims women with ballots resemble "a rosebud wrestling with a thrashing machine"—suggesting women are too delicate for politics. The satire points out the hypocrisy: men claim the vote improves citizenship, yet men themselves vote ignorantly for candidates they've never heard of, easily manipulated by political machines and primaries. The **cartoon below** (credited to James Montgomery Flagg) depicts "The Hypnotist"—illustrating how both men and women are figuratively hypnotized into engagement/relationships, suggesting blind conformity to social expectations. **Context**: This reflects the pre-1920 suffrage debate. Judge here subtly undermines anti-suffrage logic by showing men's voting is equally flawed, making the case that denying women the vote based on competence is absurd. The page is otherwise filled with period advertisements (Chartreuse liqueur, foot powder, remedies) typical of the magazine's business model.

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JUDGE TT ed Ce] THE ORIGINAL AND GENUINE CHARTREUSE has always been and still is made by the Carthusian Monks (Péres Char- treux), who, since their expulsion from France, have been located at Tarragona, Spain; and, although the old labels and insignia originated by the Monks have been adjudged by the Federal Courts of t! country to be Bill the exclusive property of the Monks, their world-renowned product is Liqueur Peres Chartreux cree AND yeLLow— rrt-class Wine Merchants, Grocers, Hotels, Cafés, Buejer & Co's ooudeny, New Vorks N. Vor Sole Agen for United Satan | | | 11 1 ef LE I GRATIS Beautiful drawing by Penrhyn Stanlaws sent without charge with every order for our new illustrated catalogue. By James Montgowery Plage. An acceptable engage- ment gift to the large army of hypnotized young men and wom- en. Send complete catalogue of ten cents for Copyright, 1909, by Judge Co. THE HYPNOTIST both selirve you can't live without ‘each other prints. Photogravure in sepia, 15218 One dollar Leslie-Judge Company : : : Trade supped by the WR. Adderwn Co 25 Filth Avenve New York 22 Union Square, New York For Liquor and Drug Using A scientific remedy which has been skilfully and successfully administered by medical specialists for the past 30 years At the following Keeley Institutes : .s This signatare Learn for yourself why * - 'S FOOT-EASE ashake into your shoes for Tired freaking tn. Punch. use A Ease.” bold everywhere, Sc. Do bot accept 1910. —London Punch, ANOTHER TRIUMPH OF SCIENCE. | The Problem of Woman Suffrage. | When the humorists begin to pay| regular attention to any movement, one may begin to imagine that there is something in the air, In a recent num- ber of JupcE one of these bright wits thus expresses himself on ‘‘Woman and the Ballot’’: ‘A woman with a ballot in her hand is reminiscent of a rosebud |wrestling with a thrashing machine. If ballots came in bandboxes, women would be more at home handling them. A woman at the polls and a baby in the jeradle don’t seem to harmonize, some- how. When the women vote, the hens will crow; and everybody knows what everybody says about crowing hens. What is home without a ballot box? How would a woman’s reputation look in society after it had passed through about one mud-slinging campaign? And what would the other women say?’ We do not care to enter the lists as definitely opposed to woman suffrage. | Whether it would work well or not we cannot prophesy. It would be an experiment. Meanwhile, vainglorious| bother, man, the ‘oppressor’ of crushed wom- ankind, has the suffrage--and much | good does it do him! He goes meekly | and lamb-like to the polls to cast his ballot for men he knows nothing about and scarcely has ever heard of. Should he go to the primary, he will discover Simply Martini ( tin base) an: | Here’s to You! No fuss, no trouble, no strain through | cracked ice and serve. 1d Manhattan (whiskey base) are the mest popular. At all good dealers. | GP.WEUBLEIN & BRO. Hartford _New York Londso that the pre-primary, beld by a little ring of interested persons, has fixed the | slate up in advance and the managers! have got out enough supporters to put the ticket through. There is some hope in the popular primary held on registra- tion day, with nominations on the Australian ballot plan. But no method has yet come to light by which the or- dinary citizen, who has his hands full of business every day and can only enter politics as an amateur, can successfully compete with the veterans and circum- vent the wiles of the professional or ex- pert politician, who gives all of his time to playing the game, who is in it for a living, and who scruples at noth-| ing as long as the spoils come into his pocket. If the women can show us a way out of the Egyptian bondage in which we men find ourselves politically, we will welcome them as deliverers, even as the Hebrews did Deborah when she threw off the yoke of Sisera and the Canaan-| ites. Perhaps some modern Joan of Arc may yet arise—some valiant, public- spirited woman to whom a mighty, in- spiring vision has come, as to the Or- leans maid, and who has heard voices summoning her to a divine mission— who will lead us poor, boss-ruled Amer- ican men to victory and freedom. If such a dream has any possibility, G speed the day!—IWestern Christian Ad- vocate. Every lover Abbott's LIQUID PISTOL | WI stop the wont vietons, maa) elibeet pormacr The Annual Puzzle. Now tides of travel booklets flow With views entrancing nice; fectly eae to Bi e t ‘Where to. Sy tie tien” Lo But the, jSucetion: is no! ere Ss meee, But where to raise the price. —Chicago News. Not Needed. “1 see you have only one chair in the| kitchen, Mary. I must get another one | for you."* “You needn't mind, mi none but gentlemen callers. Express. With Piste SS. Long Linwage. ‘Write Blobbs—Harduppe says he can trace his family back three hundred years.’ ‘Slobbs—'*Yes; and I dare say he can trace some of his debts quite as far.’’ —Denver Times. | stccr i tind Mr. Wir Sethng Sapte | | best remedy for their children. 25¢ a bottle. In answering advertisements please mention JUDGE. It will be appreciated. Exhibited, Great Western was the Only OneAwarded the Gold Medal at Paris Exposition, 1900. — Your Grocer or Dealer Can Supply You Sold Everywhere Pleasant Valley Wine Co. Rheims, N. Y. Oldest and Larcest mpagne House 4 Fires and ree vis trot a ‘Over 6 abo dealers, or by mail, Sc, Eesbencerered Blster, 16 Money-order No coins, Peake Stearns 6 Gas 1 Sheed Aves DepeE, BRIYS,8-% for ay ‘20 approval. Remob Jewelry Coy 400°X. Bdwar. st. Lous