Judge, 1911-03-18 · page 6 of 24
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This page satirizes early 20th-century women's suffrage and social changes. The main cartoon "In a Suffragette City" depicts the chaos of women's activism, mocking suffragettes as disruptive and unfeminine. The text pieces reinforce anti-suffrage sentiment. "The Last Straw" jokes that suffragettes claiming fearlessness of mice represent femininity's death—suggesting women's rights advocacy destroys traditional womanhood. "When Women Vote" implies militant suffragettes are hostile and unreasonable. Other jokes mock women's perceived incompetence with modern technology (the humidor "gasoline" joke) and exaggerate their irrationality. The humor relies on portraying suffragettes as simultaneously threatening to male authority and ridiculous. The cartoonist and writers treat women's political organizing as absurd rather than legitimate, a common rhetorical strategy opponents used against the suffrage movement. The overall tone dismisses women's activism as both dangerous and laughable.
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IN A SUFFRAGETTE CITY. The Last Straw. By CAROLYN WELLS. DON'T denounce all suffragists— Some few of them are rather nice; But one of them declared last week That they are ‘‘not afraid of mice’! Shades of eternal feminine! This is the last and hardest blow! But let us hope there’s some mistake, Perhaps it isn’t really so. We have forgiven many things— From night-keys to divided skirts. They've lost their clinging-vine effects; But this new message really hurts. Oh, woman, if it’s come to this, That you, unmoved, a mouse may see, Nor scream and climb up on a chair, You've lost your femininity! Another Smuggler. 6¢()H, FATHER,"’ exclaimed the beautiful girl, after they had left the ship, ‘‘there was one thing you didn’t declare! I'm afraid the customs officers will get after you unless you hurry back and pay duty on it."” “What do you mean? I declared everything we have in our trunks.’" “IT know. But that cold you have— you brought it from Europe, you know.’” Cautious. Dentist—‘‘ Will you take gas?"’ Mr. Tightwad—‘'Yes—er—what are your meter rates here?"’ Under Suspicion. oop SO sorry to hear that your daughter eloped. Does your hus- band take it very hard?"’ “Not half as hard as he would be taking it if he had been asked for money to buy a wedding outfit. Sometimes I'm half in- clined to believe that he helped the young man put the extension ladder up to Laura's window."" Particulars Desired. 66y HAVE decided,” said Mrs. Oldcastle, “to give my husband a humidor for a birthday present,”” “Have you?" asked her friend. ‘Does it go by electricity or gaso- line?” To One Whose Tooth Is Aching at Two A. M. B® STILL, sad heart, and cease repining. Why mourn your hap- less plight? Behind the clouds the sun keeps shining, Except, of course, at night. A Champion in Her Line. ssMyY WIFE is one of the greatest trouble borrowers in the coun- try. Do you know what she’s worrying about now?"’ “No, I haven't the slightest idea,” “Why, she’s fretting over the diff- culty she will have in getting out of tell- ing her real age when the next decennial’ census is taken.’" Earmarks. Madge—*You can't always tell whether a wedding is fashionable by the presents."’ Marjorie—"I know it, my de: judged by the number of police."” When Women Vote. ¢¢POLITICS make strange bedfel- lows,"’ quoth he, When at a reception they met. “How dare you, sir!” indignantly cried she. “I'm a militant suffragette!"’ NEEDLES and pins, needles and pins, When one has an auto his trouble BLUFFS WE HAVE MET. The hotel strutters—on borrowed money. comicbooks.com