Judge, 1914-11-28 · page 15 of 24
Judge — November 28, 1914 — page 15: what you’re looking at
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This page satirizes early 20th-century arguments against women's suffrage through multiple angles: **"The Vote Limited"** mocks selective franchise arguments: different social classes (society women, shop girls, working-class men) each claim women *should* vote—but only women like themselves. The satire exposes the hypocrisy of limiting voting rights by class while claiming principle. **The cartoon "Two More Facts to Dog His Footsteps"** depicts a man fleeing from a parade of suffragettes with drums, suggesting anti-suffrage anxiety about women's activism gaining momentum. **"Suffrage Snapshots"** uses logic to undermine anti-suffrage positions: if French women can vote on municipal matters for absent husbands, why deny them broader rights? If women can handle street cars better than men, why restrict voting? **"Bowling"** satirically presents a false concern: women's bowling supposedly threatens the race by making them "chesty" and muscular—a ridiculous anti-feminist argument the writer mocks by noting women bowlers still score lower than men. The overall effect: exposing anti-suffrage arguments as arbitrary, hypocritical, and absurd.
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THE MODERN WOMAN Mustard and Cress By ETHEL B. PEYSER The Vote Limited THE society dame with a high-sounding name ; Thinks women should have the franchise; “But limit its span To the ladies who can Ride in cars decked in fur to the eyes.’" The tired shop girls, without motors or pearls, Think women should have the franchise; “But limit it, though, To the women who know About work and the hardships that ris The callow young man, when he talks to strong Nan, Thinks women should have the franchise; “But limit its mass To those of your class Who can vote with good sense and be wise."” The workingman feels, whose wife gets his meals, That women should have the franchise; “But limit the vote So that .adies that tote Little lap dogs cannot tyrannize. No More Bardens Suffragette (to anti, who supports her husband)—I can’t see why you are not a suffragette. Anti—Then this is why: It's bad enough and work enough to support a man, and I don’t care to have to vote for him, too, and have that extra burden. Home Life He—I hear that Miss Smith is forever on the tennis court. Is shea suffragette? She—No, indeed; she believes that woman’s place is the home. He—Has she a little tennis court in her home? Suffrage Snapshots By IDA HUSTED HARPER HE French government has given to the wives of city councilors who have gone to war the right to vote in place of the husbands on urgent matters. If the husbands never come back, will they keep on voting? And since they are capable of casting a vote on urgent municipal affairs, should they not be eligible for election to the council? And if so, are they not qualified to vote for members of that body? The French Parliament can- not logically refuse to pass that municipal- franchise-for-women bill when it again gets down to business. Some men are making an effort nowa- days to scare women out of their inde- pendence by letting them stand in the street cars; but the women answer that they are better able to stand than many of the men that they see sitting down, and that, according to statistics, a woman has a good many more years to ride on street cars than men have. The candidates on the primary-election tickets in New York all had numbers op- posite their names, so that voters who couldn’t read or remember carried the numbers of their choice into the polling booth and copied them on the ballot. It almost seems as if women might have in- telligence enough to perform a feat like that. The Committee on Rules of the national House of Representatives had plenty of time to discuss increasing the suffrage rights of Filipino men, but not a minute to give to those of American women. Was this because the Filipino men will vote as they are told and the American women will not? o Curbside Comments By OREOLA W. HASKELL Bowling A METROPOLITAN paper states that in New York City there are at least three hundred women's bowling clubs, with a membership close to twenty thou- sand, to say nothing of the fact that many women belong to clubs that have men for members. This shows a reprehensible tendency on the part of woman to in- crease the size and strength of her mus- cles, and it may have a disastrous effect on the race, as everything that woman does aside from kitchen work haz. It will probably make her more chesty than she otherwise would be, although rumor states that as her average score is 170, as contrasted with man’s 200, this dispar- ity, while open to explanation on the score of clothes and lack of training, may keep her meek through the thought of her inferiority. Woman and Work HILE in Europe there is too much work for women, since they are obliged to do their own and the men’s also, the vacation committee of the wom- an's department of the National Civic Federation reports that its employment bureau is flooded with women and girls thrown out of positions by the war. If they were men, they would undoubtedly be buoyed up by the feeling that it isa glorious privilege to suffer in days of con- flict; but we fear that, being female, they prefer peace and plenty to war and want. What a mediocre world it will be if women ever get the ascendency! For we all know, since it is proved daily by letters in the press, that carnage is the only thing that brings out courage, self-sacrifice and other noble virtues from the bloodthirsty depths of the human soul. dou Rocers TWO MORE FACTS TO DOG HIS FOOTSTEPS comicbooks.com