Judge, 1913-06-07 · page 14 of 24
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This page contains a serialized short story titled "The First Chapter of a Summer Romance," with an illustration showing figures in what appears to be Oriental dress. The story references **Scheherezade from "The Arabian Nights,"** the legendary queen who kept her husband (the Sultan) from executing her by telling him cliffhanger stories each night for 1,001 nights. The dialogue humorously applies this premise to a modern summer romance: a young man and woman discuss how the sultan was so entertained by Scheherezade's storytelling that he abandoned his habit of marrying and murdering a new wife each day. The joke plays on the contrast between the fantastical Persian tale and contemporary courtship. One speaker calls Scheherezade a "suffragette" (anachronistically)—praising her cleverness in manipulating power through wit rather than direct authority, appealing to Judge magazine's readers familiar with early 20th-century women's rights debates. The illustration depicts the moment referenced in the text: Scheherezade entertaining the Sultan with her stories.
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