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Judge — May 8, 1915 — page 15: Judge, 1915-05-08

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This page contains anti-suffrage satire disguised as supportive commentary. The left column, titled "Suffrage Snapshots by Ida Husted Harper," uses ironic logic and false equivalencies to mock women's voting rights. Key satirical arguments include: - Comparing voting to childcare inconvenience (the 5-minute voting booth analogy) - Mocking women's presumed self-interest (the free-trade/husband's business quip) - Suggesting women already wield sufficient "influence without a vote" - Presenting women's political organizing as absurd (the legislator's daughter forming a suffrage club) The overall strategy: present anti-suffrage points as though defending them, allowing readers to "laugh" at the arguments' weakness while the magazine subtly reinforces opposition to women's voting rights. The remainder comprises advertisements (B.V.D. underwear and Keeley drug treatment), unrelated to the suffrage commentary but typical of early-20th-century Judge layout.

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THE MODERN WOMAN 1 Suffrage Snapshots By IDA HUSTED HARPER ALIFORNIA shows the largest propor- C tionate increase in the birth rate of any State, according to recent statistics. It is rather difficult to figure out the rel tion between this fact and woman suffrage there for the past four y but if it had shown the largest dec! the connection would have been a topliner in anti-suffrage literature. In Philadelphia over five thousand babies were cared for in the tabernacle nursery {While their mothers heard Billy Sunday preach. As the services lasted about two hours, it seems as if some way might be found to take care of similar infants while their mothers spend five minutes in a vot- ing booth. The old poet who wrote about ‘‘smiling green and yellow melancholy"? might have seen itin New York on St. Patrick's Day. The procession was green all but the end, which was yellow with votes-for-women banners, and the suffragists were smiling, while the antis looked melancholy. Well, even if New Jersey women shouldn't get the suffrage this year, the Legislature has passed a law that wives may own their wearing apparel. They may not be clothed with the power of the ballot, as they are asking, but whatever they are clothed with will belong to them. ) The antis say that the reason all those Western men speak so well of equal suffrage is because they are afraid of the women's votes, and then they say that women have a great deal more influence without a vote. For the love of Mike, which is it? “Think,’’ says an a suffrage bulletin, “what would happen if a woman should vote for free trade whose husband's busi- ness depended on protection!’ Yes, cer- tainly; and the woman also would be pretty apt to think and not do it. A Pennsylvania legislator shook the raft- ers denouncing votes for women, and the next day his daughter organized a big suf- frage club. Seems as if the head of that family would have some trouble represent- ing it at the polls. Some of the towns have put up anentire ticket of women officials, on the ground tha they can't possibly do any worse than the men have done.’’ This is a left-handed compliment whose chief merit is truth, } Hereafter in New York when the man Says in the marriage service, ‘‘ With all my Worldly goods I thee endow,"’ he will add, GREAT REAR SPRING WATER, f te it famous” six glass stoppered bottles. [aDvt.) Copyright, U.S A. 91S, by The BV. D. Compane. “That’s Your Friend, The B.V.D. Label, 19 Boys! &e AKE a mental snapshot of that Red Woven Label, Tom, and you won’t be fooled as I’ve been once. Now, they can’t sell we anything but B.V. D. Underwear. I’m justas particular about my underclothes as 1 am about my outer clothes. “I prefer B. V. D. because it feels so soft and fits so good. Take my word for it, it’s certainly cool and comfortable, washes up like new and gives me no end of wear. I don’t buy, if the B. V. D. Red Woven Label is missing.” On every B.V.D, Undergarment it sewed This Red Woven Label B.V.D. Union Suits (Pat. S.A. 4-30-07) $1.00, $1.50, $2.00, $3.00 and $5.00 the Suit. B.V.D. Coat Cut Undershirts and Knee Length Drawers, $0c., 75Sc., $1.00 and $1.50 the Garment. (rade Mark Reg. U.S. Pat. Of, and Forvign Countries) The B.V.D. Company, New York. London Selling Agency: 66, Aldermanbury, E. C. FOR INFORMATION ‘WRITE TO FOLLOW- NG KEELEY INSTITUTES: Pitt » Pa., 4246 Fifth Ave. Pa, 812.N. Broad St. Sam Fraecies, Cal. Dosrlas Bis. Angeles, I, Marsb-Stron: a . , Okla., 918 N, Sitfles St Drunkenness ‘And Drug Using Can Be Overcome ‘Treatment Our treatment has stood Okiaboma City, the test of thirty-five years Successful pital Soters, Ark. Fortand, eioe 5 and benefitted half a million. for Marion, ind, Does not nauseate. Only medi- cal experts allowed to give the 3 5 remedies in our own institutions. Years ‘Wiasipeg, Man. Mexico City, Mex.