Judge, 1912-12-07 · page 39 of 44
Judge — December 7, 1912 — page 39: what you’re looking at
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This page mixes satirical commentary on women's suffrage with period advertisements. The "Suffrage Snapshots" column by Ida Husted Harper presents brief anecdotes defending women's rights and intelligence through humor. Key satire points: - **The divorce story** mocks male vanity, suggesting foolishness "knows no sex" - **Moving pictures vs. saloons**: sarcastically notes that keeping families together threatens liquor sellers - **Nurses and marriage proposals**: ridicules men's crude way of "appreciating" women - **Chicago's Columbus statue confusion and centenarian's longevity**: mocks male incompetence and illogic - **Women's clubs as "instruments of the devil"**: inverts the clergyman's claim by noting women actually improve things - **The Madison Square Garden crowd**: sarcastically suggests women observing emotional male political behavior proves women too emotional for politics—reversing the actual observation The column uses irony to argue women are rational, improvement-oriented, and deserve political participation. The adjacent advertisements (weight reduction, liqueur) are typical period commerce, unrelated to the satire.
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Suffrage Snapshots by IDA HUSTED HARPER. NEW JERSEY woman has been obliged to get a divorce because ber husband was so ‘‘inordinately fond of dress’’ that he spent all his earn- ings on his clothes. Vanity and fool- ishness know no sex. In many places the liquor sellers are complaining that the moving- picture shows, where a man can take his wife and children for five or ten cents, are ruining their business. Anything that keeps a man with his family is an enemy to the saloon. The only harmony in sight any- where seems to be in the ranks of the suffragists. They propose to get the ballot first and do their fighting afterward, The nurses who cared for Mr. Roosevelt in the Chicago hospital have been so deluged with offers of marriage that they have had to go into seclusion. It’s such a very funny way men have of showing their ap- preciation of a woman by offering to marry her! Ever since the World’s Fair, Chi- cago people have been admiring a left-over statue as that of President McKinley, and it turns out to be Christopher Columbus. Under the same date as the dispatch conveying this information was another, telling of the death of ‘‘one of Chicago's centenarians, at the age of 110, who attributed his long life to his sense of humor’’! A Philadelphia clergyman says that “women's clubs are the instruments of the devil.""| With several million women enrolled in them, His Satanic Majesty should have a large working foree; but it’s odd that every one of them seems to be trying to improve something or somebody. Maybe the minister meant to say men’s clubs. When the women watched that crowd of men in Madison Square Gar- den cheer and howl and whoop and yell an hour and a half for one candi- date, and the next night a similar crowd go through the same perform- ance the same length of time for another candidate, they fully realized that women are too emotional for Political life. The suffragettes very wisely are keeping out of the war now raging be- tween the regulars and the progres- sives of the split party. My system te: a full rounded neck; shapely plexion; good carriage with erect poise and grace of movement. You Can Improve Your Health My system stimulates, reorganizes and regenerates your It helps you to transform your food into good, rich blood. other organs, conquering all weaknesses and disorders and generating vital force. My latest book, “The Body Beautiful,”’ should be read by every woman and J will send it It explodes that lack of beauty or health cannot be avoided. In it | explain how woman can vigorous, entire body. to you free. the fallacy every be healthy and attractive. "ANNETTE SERESMAN) 12 West 3ist ‘Street, New York Become my pupil and I will make you my friend. Devote but fifteen minutes daily to my system and you can weigh what Nature intended. You can reduce any part of your figure burdened with superfluous flesh or build up any part that is undeveloped. The effect of my system can be concentrated on your hips, waist, limbs or any other part of your body. ‘nds to make a figure perfectly proportioned throughout— houlders, arms and legs; a fine, fresh com- childhood was puny and deform- ed. Ihave overcome all weaknesses by my. own natural, drugless methods. Millions of people have seen in me a liv- ing demonstration of my unique system of health- culture and body-building. If you are weak, nervous, fat, thin, unshapely, tired, lacking vitality or in any other respect not al your very best, I can surely be of service to you. MY GUARANTEE With my free book, “The Body Beautiful,” which is fully i Hustrated with photographs of myself explaining my system, I give full rs of my Guarantee Trial Plan, whereby you can test the value of my instruction wi ‘hout risking a single penny. Send 2c stamp for ‘The Body Beautiful” and Trial Plan to-day Suite 812 J It strengthens your heart, lungs and AGENTS SALESMAN MANAGERS YOUNG OR OLD NEW BUSINESS AFTER DINNER ASK FOR A Wak THE QUEEN ore Tr siqu “Mieille Cure’ made at the Geille hare de (HLobaye Ie Cenon « France. je At first class Wine Merchants, Grocers, Hotels, Cafes. GEORGES J. M. LEVITTE 321 Lexington Avenue New York, N. Y. Sole Agent for United States NEW BUSINESS JUST OUT OF THE DEAD OMe 20tn CENTURY WONDER ON Get started in an honest, clean, reliable, permanent, money-making business, Sold on a money-back guarantee The Blackstone Water Power Va: ‘or the GENERAL AGENTS ROAD MEN MAKE MONEY HERE START NOW—TODAY raliga, iia india ‘tho most tkeptical person. "Bales easily made. t Others Do, So Can You. rachines first ay. Margwarth, earn, ‘in of joceommtrat lo Vaui hip ats dgven by ret Expres ‘makes moves. In answering advertisements please mention JUDGE. It will be appreciated. comicbooks.com