Judge, 1914-04-11 · page 10 of 24
Judge — April 11, 1914 — page 10: what you’re looking at
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**The Main Cartoon ("Disfranchised"):** Shows a married couple at breakfast. The wife asks her husband to vote for both of them at the polls, revealing she cannot vote herself. This satirizes women's disenfranchisement—women lacked voting rights and had to rely on male relatives to represent their interests politically. The title's wordplay ("dis-franchised") highlights this exclusion. **"The Easter Dress Parade in Scripture":** Mocks women's vanity by pairing Biblical passages about modest religious garments with Isaiah's condemnation of women's ostentatious clothing and adornments. The satire suggests contemporary women prioritize fashionable display over spiritual virtue. **"A Catechism":** A mock religious Q&A that exposes the gap between the stated purpose of "The Tuesday Club" (improving minds, helping the poor) and its actual purpose: getting members' names into society columns for status. The sarcastic responses ("The Members haven't read it") ridicule women's clubs as vain social climbing rather than genuine charitable or intellectual endeavors. **Overall:** The page criticizes women as politically powerless, spiritually vain, and socially superficial.
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“ George, dear, won't you vote for both of us when you go down this morning ? DISFRANCHISED The Easter Dress Parade in Scripture }) HOU shalt make for them ... bonnets for glory and for beauty. — Ex. xxviii. 40. Make it according to the fashion.—Acts vii. 44. Make the girdle of needlework, —Ex. xxviii. 39. Shut up heaven that there be no rain.—2 Chron. vii. 13. Women . adorned themselves, —1 Pet. iii. 5. Goodly bonnets of xxxix. 28. Fine twined linen and blue and purple and searlet.—Ex, xxxix. 29. The bonnets and the ornaments. . . and the headbands . . . and the earrings, . .. changeable suits of apparel and the mantles and the wimples 2nd the crisping pins.—Isa. iii, 20-22. fine linen. — Ex. Put the bonnets on them.—E The fashion of this world pas Cor. vii. 31. The daughters... are haughty and walk with stretched-forth necks. —Isa. iii. 16. They assembled themselves with the chureh.—Acts xi. 26. When they enter, . . bonnets upon their heads.— 17, 18. And I turned myself to behold.—Ece. eth. avery » viii, 6 The whole church speak in tongues. 1 Cor. xi x Moved with en They were fille Vanity of vanities, saith the preacher, all is vanity.—Ece. i. Where is the bill?- with envy.—Acts xiii. Stuart B. Stone, My old hat just isn’t fit to go to the polls in.” A Catechism Wwuat is the Name and Purpose of this Women’s Club? The name is The Tuesday Club. The Constitution states that its Purpose is to improve the Mind, Discuss Litera- ture and ameliorate the Condition of the Poor. Is the Constitution correct? The Members haven't read it. The Ladies play Bridge for high Stakes. Is that the Real Purpose? Oh, no! Certainly not. They wear daring Gowns. We wot far from Thus. They are all either Divorced, hope to be, or Should be. They mostly drink Highballs. Are these the Purposes? Nay, nay. The Purpose of the Tues- day Club, if you are so Inquisitive that you must know, is to get the names of the Members into the Society Columns of the Papers, each Wednes: Is that It? comicbooks.com