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This page is primarily **advertising** for upscale resort hotels (Granliden Hotel and Hotel Aspinwall), typical of Judge magazine's commercial content. However, the text column contains a **satirical editorial** critiquing male indifference to women's labor protections. The unnamed female labor organizer speaker describes visiting factories where child workers (girls under ten) share contaminated spindles, spreading tuberculosis ("consumption"). She brought evidence to Albany legislators who dismissed her, prioritizing manufacturer "protection" over worker safety. The satire mocks male "protection" rhetoric—men claim to protect women but ignore workplace dangers, deny them hearing from officials, and provide no support. Yet when wars occur, these same men send women into poverty and shame. The piece advocates **women's suffrage** as the solution, arguing only voting power will secure real protections. The closing dialogue (Seth Binns dismissing educated women as troublesome) reinforces the satire: male resistance to female empowerment stems from discomfort with informed women demanding justice. This reflects **Progressive Era** labor reform debates circa 1915.
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GRANLIDEN HOTEL Lake Sunapee, N. H. T the Gateway to the White Mountains. On the Ideal Tour. Fine Golf Course; Saddle Horses; Tennis; Bathing; Boating; Canoeing and Fishing, as good, if not the best in New nd, Fine Motoring. Accommodates 300 guests. Furnished Cottages to rent for the season. Write for circular. Address W. W. Brown, Hotel Manhattan, 42nd St., New York City, until June Ist; after that, Granliden Hotel, Lake Sunapee, N. H. Open June 16th to Oct. Ist. Hotel Aspinwall, Lenox, Mass. In the heart of the famous Berkshires, under the same management. HOTEL ASPINWALL Lenox, Mass. I the heart of the famous Berkshires. One of the most fashionable and attractive resorts in this country. Ac- commodates 500 guests. Three Golf Courses; Tenni Saddle Horses; Driving; Motoring; Dancing, etc. Fur- nished Cottages to rent for the season. Write for circular. W. W. Brown, Hotel Manhattan, 42nd St, New York City, until June Ist; after that, Lenox, Mass. Open June 19th until late in Oct. Granliden Hotel, Lake Sunapee, N. H. Gateway to the White Mountains, under the same management. _ | tion idee. Why, she showed us a spindle used in factories in this here enlightened Empire State, where a thread has to be blowed through a small hole by the breath. And gals doing this work and Passing round the same spindle from one to the other passes round consumption, too, Pleasant, ain’t it? This here speaker, who's a labor organizer, says as she went to Albany with the spindle and a gal and talked awful strong, but it didn’t do no good. The men there wasn’t thinking of pertect. ing wimmen; they was all sot on pertecting manufacturers. ‘This female speaker told, too, of talking to thousands of little gals under ten years and over, that ran out of their basement sweat shops to listen to her. Where was their daddies or other girls’ daddies? Not ornamenting the pertection line. She says, too, that in factories the winder to the fire escape is often barred tighter than any other, ‘cause the boss is afraid of burglars; that air and light are furnished only ‘when the products need it." Human products? Nope; choco- lates and cloth and sich. And she says five thousand gals that asked a mayor of New York once fer a hearing found him jest out of the per- tection feeling, and he wouldn’t see 'em. “Nope; when I listen fer the male pertection chorus that ought to be shouting, ‘We'll pertect wimmen from overwork, starvation wages, from diseases and vice,’ I don't hear nothing but an occasional solo from areformer. And if men ain't on the pertection job in times of peace, how about times of war? Throwing wimmen out of homes, cov- ering ‘em with misery and sometimes shame, is an all-fired funny kind of pertection. So us wimmen-suffridge wimmen are all hanging to- gether—them that move in social sets and them that live in scrubwim. men circles. And the social setters are out to help the scrubbing cir- clers through the ballot. Male pertection is a posy that blooms fine in speeches, but is blasted by realities. Vote as you please this fall, Seth, but don’t try to cover up ignorance, prejudice or lack of fair play by no male-pertection flimsiness.’’ “The trouble with the modern female, consarn her! is that she knows too much,"’ says Seth Binns. ‘*Dumb it!"’ “If you're going to swear,"’ says I, ‘‘I'm off."’ ing him with his feelings all riled up. ) ,wudae SS Copyright 1915 by Lesiie-JudgeCobutered at the Post- Office at New York as second ttail matter.Cable And I went, leav- addtess‘Jidgark”) Telephotte 6632Madisot Sonate Pubdlished weeks: hy the Lestie-Iudge Co.225 Fifthsve New York Clty / Secretary f ee | SAWaldtot Ast Director A.E.Rolister ‘Treasurer = Vol. LXVHL "May 29, 1915 No. 1754 SUBSCRIPTION RATES One year, or 52 numbers - - . + %00 Si ponths ag pumbers . - . . . - . 32 een w ble in advance by draft on New York, or by express or postal ord Wm. Dawson & Sons, Ltd., Bream's Buildings, London, E, C. Fnoland . 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