Judge, 1912-11-09 · page 17 of 24
Judge — November 9, 1912 — page 17: what you’re looking at
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This page from *Judge* magazine satirizes early 20th-century gender debates and women's suffrage. The main cartoon depicts a man smoking a pipe labeled "Prince Albert" tobacco—a period advertisement disguised as editorial content. The surrounding text mocks anti-suffrage arguments through exaggeration. One piece ridicules a Chicago man's claim that his suffragette mother would have abandoned him to wolf attacks while attending political meetings. Another jest notes that New York suffragists' threat to boycott new gowns caused a petticoat factory bankruptcy—implying women's fashion consciousness undermines their serious activism. The piece about London bootblacks complaining that a woman competitor "takes bread from their mouths" ironically exposes male hypocrisy: men resist women's economic independence while performing "women's work" themselves. Overall, the satire works by taking anti-suffrage and anti-feminist arguments to absurd extremes, revealing their illogic to readers sympathetic to women's rights. The magazine uses humor to advocate for suffrage and gender equality.
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man, Judicia of eels ‘ays like lates, whiskers thing is shion in | et their awoman. This is a vast improve- ent on going to war with your lady’s andkerchief on the point of your spear. a) New York suffragists are threatening ot to buy any more new gowns until hey get the ballot. The public was inclined to take this threat as a joke, ntil the largest factory in the city for making petticoats went into bankruptcy because so many women had quit wear- ing them. Perish the thought that a minister of ithe Gospel—and especially a woman— should be contrasted with a horse race! But when the Rev. Anna Shaw, presi- gent of the National Suffrage Associa- tion, began speaking from an automobile behind the grand-stand at the Wisconsin State Fair, the whole crowd climbed down to hear her and forgot all about the lar declare [the races. to stp] Fashion abroad has decreed that men y might |shall wear stocks, strap their trousers rrce law rubber d from 1 be an joy” ced the 1g and They jay for to per over high-heeled boots, and carry scented handkerchiefs. All these calamities may happen, but there will be no pro- test from women, so long as there re- mains any other subject on earth to talk about. It will give them a good chance to set men an example of mind- ing their own business when it comes to sach personal matters as clothes. Aman in Chicago has written a book- let against woman suffrage, in which he relates that when he was a small boy he and his sister were attacked by wolves, which his mother drove off with a gun. “If she had been a suffragette, ’ he says, “she would probably have been away ng th! from home that night, attending a po- ok litt | litical meeting, and Sister Lucy and I must ” destals publie eading mns of womea would have been eaten alive.’’ Sister Lucy might have been a loss to the orld. London men bootblacks are very much agitated because a woman has set up a public stand in this business, ‘‘thus taking the bread out of their mouth.’” EVERYBODY CHEER UPI! Dad's got his! Found it down town in a tidy red tin that just cost him a dime. pay a dollar if he couldn’t get it right handy. Says Dad to Me, ‘‘Here is some smoke nce Albert. It’s honest to goodness real, regular tobacco built for a jimmy pipe. ‘on’t bite my tongue; never bit anybody else’s. Just one long joy smoke that’s got flavor and aroma and everything else that I never did get before.’’ All the boys were wise to P. A. for cigarettes long ago. Now he’d They buy the toppy red bag that can or} Anybody who has traveled in England ssocis- |knows that in small hotels, boarding recent | houses and private families shoes are favor | blacked almost exclusively by women reason | S¢rvants, It is only when women at- they | tempt to put their drudgery on a paying e and |basis that men raise a cry of protest. us the Go e field Just at the psychical moment when the Alienist and Neurologist, a St. Louis publication, devoted several pages to 3 was | Prove that the ‘‘cave man is the type brand | “omen adore”’ and that ‘‘the bigger the brute, the more a woman clings to him,”” aNew York wife took a 200-pound hus- band by the ear and led him to the police lidate onent sells for a nickel. station, and one the same size in Chicago had his wife arrested for cruel and in- human treatment. It looks as if the women themselves were trying the role of the cave man. Another great scientific discovery by a European physician! If a serum is obtained from a person who is long on some organic force, such as lung power or heart action, and it is injected into one who is short in this respect, his strength is at once increased. The point In answering advertisements please mention JUDGE. It will be appreciated. Handy when you roll ‘em! Get me? in which women are specially interested is that this serum may be obtained from the gray matter of the brain and used as an intellectual stimulus to the feeble- minded. They have long been hampered by the fact that the male sex had a monopoly on gray matter, but now a part of this can be transferred—which the men, having so much, will never miss—and the hope is held out that by this means the brain of woman may gain a fraction, at least, of the present masculine superiority. . comicbooks.com