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This Judge magazine page satirizes women's expanding social roles and activism circa 1910s. The main content critiques modern motherhood and women's organizations through three pieces: **"The Woman Asks"**: A poem expressing a mother's anxiety that industrial society—with its "sordid greed," polluted food, child labor, and war—corrupts children despite maternal care. **"Some Ladies"**: Mocks surprise that the Ladies of the Maccabees (a women's fraternal organization) maintained 187,000 members and accumulated $8 million over 23 years without dissolving into "gossip, jealousy or general idiocy"—backhanded praise undermining women's competence. **"Suffrage Snapshots"**: Brief anecdotes praising women's activism: suffragists fundraising, women cleaning barns for donations, female lawyers volunteering—presented as noteworthy achievements challenging traditional gender roles. The page balances mockery of women's ambitions with grudging acknowledgment of their organizational capability, typical of Judge's era when women's suffrage and professional participation remained controversial.

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5S REASONS FOR SUPERIORITY No. 3—BOTTLING Automatically bottled In Scotland in brand new sterllized bottles blown In thelr own Glass Factories. Every detail in the prepar- ation of BLACK & WHITE Scotch Whisky ts scrupulously performed by the Distillers The Highest Standard of Quality Great Pictures Taken by Storm An Enveloping Movement By James Montgomery Flagg Steady Work , By Enoch Bolles / To Re Continued By kk. A, Furman a / $1.00 These splendid pictures, among the most popular of reennt Judge covers, are in full color—9 x 12—double mounted on a heavy white mat—11 x 14—ready for framing. All four will be sent on receipt of 81.00. Address Leslie-Judge Co., 225 Fifth Avenue, New York THE MODERN WOMAN Curbside Comments By OREOLA W. HAS L The Woman Asks ITH urgent voice, impassioned pen, Ye loudly laud the mother of men; But brooding o’er my son's deep needs, I weigh not fulsome words, but deeds; And looking o’er a world man-made, Of your fell ways I am afraid. With sordid greed and soulless strife, ‘Ye war upon the child’s young life; The God-given fruits of tree and field, Through you pollution to him yield. Ye steal his strength, his rose-flushed grace; With tainted foods ye sap the race. Nor that alone; for Trade’s slight pay, Ye snatch his years of golden play, And let temptation oft assail, From innocence to lift the veil. Shall I, through suffering, toil and care, Rear one who shall such impress bear? In peace, a toiler sad of mien, A mindless cog in a great machine; In war, a victim of the lust That beats men down to bloody dust? Think ye my task I shall not shirk, If thus ye thwart and spoil my work? Some Ladies ECENTLY a national convention of the Ladies of the Maccabees of the World was held at the Waldorf-Astoria, and a startled public learned that the one hundred delegates present represented forty-two States and 187,000 women. That so large a number of females have been able to hang together for twenty-three years without being rent asunder by gossip, jealousy or gen- eral idiocy was surpris- ing enough; but when it was announced modestly that they possess a reserve fund in their treasury of $8,000,000, there was much of the eye-popping and open-mouthing of stu- pendous astonishment. Sometimes it looks as though a book written on women's organizations would grind into a pallid pulp all the cherished century-old ideas of their inferiority, so it is a great blessing this vol- ume yet remains to be indited. A JOB FOR THE NATION'S SPENDER Swiping His Job GAIN has woman stolen man’s work from him. Day, celebrated recently by all the suffragists in New York State by each worker contributing to the cause money she had to ear, a woman up-State got her donation by cleaning out a barn. This is man’s time-honored chore, but as yet there has been no outcry over the theft. Perhaps the dirtiness of the task had a mite to do with the heavy silence, for if it had been clean, highly remunerative work, it is to be feared that that dear old song, ‘‘ Woman's Sphere,’’ would have been given with sobbing variations by the Conservatives’ Choir. Suffrage Snapshots Bu 1DA HUSTED HARPER HE Engtish government has just given another instance of its respect for the United States. When Jane Addams asked for a2 interview with Premier Asquith, instead of calling for the police, be granted it! Sixty women lawyers of Chicago have offered their services to the Municipal Court to defend women arrested. Isn't it about time to revise the old saying that women do not stand by their own sex? On Earners’ | —_