Judge, 1912-06-08 · page 13 of 24
Judge — June 8, 1912 — page 13: what you’re looking at
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This page contains satirical commentary on early 20th-century gender relations, centered around a 1914 suffragette club meeting. The "Extreme Opinions" section presents women members offering cynical epigrams about men—comparing them to unreliable jobs, unnecessary expenses, and liars. The satire mocks both the suffragettes' anti-male rhetoric and, implicitly, traditional marriage dynamics. The three cartoons illustrate domestic scenes: a woman cleaning with a vacuum cleaner (presented as her "latest usefulness"), a court scene where a prisoner worries more about breaking a chair than assaulting a man, and a poem about a careless "picnic girl." The overall thrust appears to mock the women's suffrage movement by exaggerating women's grievances against men while simultaneously depicting women as frivolous or destructive. The magazine presents this as humor attacking feminist rhetoric rather than supporting women's equality.
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\\ ~ SS NN Extreme Opinions. A’ THE meeting of the Do or Die Suffragette Club in closed session, July Ist, 1914, each member was re- quested to respond to roll call with her opinion of men in epigram. The follow- ing is the partial result: Mrs. Smith—‘‘Men are like jobs— when you need them and you want them they ain’t there; when you don’t need them and you don’t want them, they are thicker than berries in a blackberry patch."” Mrs. Jones—‘Any woman who can afford a husband can afford a bulldog, and if she has a bulldog, she doesn’t need a husband.’" Mrs. Brown—‘‘The reason so many women acquire husbands is for the same reason lots of women buy kodaks and poodle dogs—they see other women have them, and don’t know what a nuis- ance they are, nor how expensive to keep up.”” Mrs. Black—‘‘All men are liars—the AN OVERSIGHT. Judge—' You are charged with breaking a chair over this man’s head."” Prisoner—"‘1 didn't mean to break the chair, yer worship.”” THE VACUUM CLEANER'S LATEST USEFULNESS. difference is that some back their lies up and some don’t.’” Mrs. White—‘‘Men are like little boys in front of a'bakeshop window. They pretend they don’t want any cake and that they would run away awful fast if the baker was to offer them any, but if a woman thinks she is a baker and offers them any she'll find herself with a life job on her hands.’" Mrs, Flug—''Men and marriage are like contracts—if you once sign away your rights, you never get them: back.”” Mrs. Duff—‘If a man hasn’t anything he will willingly give you half of it, but if he has anything you can’t get a quarter of it without false pretenses.’’ — Bertha M. Coombs. The Picnic Girl. She’s gold of hair and blue of eye, She never keeps her hat on, And always puts the custard pie Just where it will be sat on. Smooth words oil the grooves of life. comicbooks.com