Judge, 1915-07-03 · page 24 of 32
Judge — July 3, 1915 — page 24: what you’re looking at
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This page is primarily **advertisements** with one satirical essay. The main Murad cigarette ad uses the common early-20th-century marketing tactic of claiming superiority through "nation-wide preference"—a vague appeal to popularity rather than evidence. The **satirical content** appears in "The Modern Woman" section by Oreola W. Haskell. It mocks husbands who blame their wives' poor cooking for their own moral failings—drinking, infidelity, and professional failures. The satire argues that men use "bad cooking" as an excuse for bad behavior, when they should take personal responsibility. The essay "Betsey Burrows, Suffragist—Kids" below satirizes a woman arguing that voting rights matter as much as childcare duties. The male narrator dismissively suggests women's primary job is raising children, implying suffrage is a distraction—a common anti-suffrage argument of the era. Both pieces reflect pre-1920 debates about women's roles: domestic responsibilities versus civic participation.
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~ THE TURKISH CIGARETTE MURADS ARE IN SALES The Foremost High-Grade Cigarette’ in the World Far greater than any other 15 Cent cigarette Far greater than any 20 Cent cigarette Far greater than all 25 Cent cgarettes This NATION WIDE PREFERENCE FOR A FIFTEEN CENT CIGARETTE COULD NEVER BE MERE CHANCE dt has been attained only by that Dehcious, Exclusive, Wonderful Taste of Pure Turkish Tobaccos that 1s found only nm MURAD Can you afford not to try MURADS? Airaraysos “eft Aigantes withe Werkd FIFTEEN CENTS HOTEL PURITAN COMMONWEALTH AVE, BOSTON, ear Masserbasette Ave. ear laws ay statlon The Distinctive Boston house trotters hare sald that the Puritan 9 ome of active ant homelike hotels ta Use wort: AVOID THIS AD! unless you have talent Send four In the Very Centre of Everything. Subway and Elevated R. R. Stations One Minute. Five Minutes’ Walk to 40 Theatres and All the Famous Shops. All street cars and Sth Av. Motor Buses Pass our Door. COOLEST ROOMS IN TOWN. Large Outside Rooms, use of Bath, 1 Person, $1.00, 2 Persons, $1.50. Large Outside Rooms, Private Bath, 1 Person, $1.50, 2 Persons, $2.00. Parlor, Bedroom and Bath, 1 Person, $2.00, 2 Persons, $2.50. Special Rates for Long and Short Periods. A Place Where Nice People Dine. HOTEL EMPIRE Broadway at 63rd Street Your Visit to New York Is Not Complete Unless You Stop at the Famous Empire. NEW YORK CITY THE MODERN WOMAN Curbside Comments By OREOLA W. HASKELL Cooks and Character Ufmenare not what they ought to be it is beca H, LYNX-EYED wife, no more, I wees, | ™ You'll dub poor hubby weak or mean, |) ™ Since all his faults and vices, too, int Are to your low-grade cooking due. | Mor So when he doth his vitals soak A spri With juice of alcohol, and smoke Eres Pours from his nasal chimney flue, | #] He gets into a frightful stew | easy Because your meat one wasn’t hot Y fam! And drove him off to pipe and pot. 4! And when in business oft he makes | ee A hundred blunders and mistakes, Bote Tis all because the roast you burn; gp thin And so, to fill his silent yearn whet For this, his work he does criss-cross, of ge To get a good roast from the boss. the d And if he loves with crowds to roam, we p 'Tis all because within his home jawt You've failed with sweets his maw to cram, don’t So he goes out to get the jam e To make him lead a hero life, pint He needs a good cook for a wife; boss | For not by genius riseth man, Dare. But by the sizzling frying pan. the ¢ sweat on th even demic ceiver order city s clothe that rr 'n’ cl ple. Don | ‘and th you th gittin’ by the "cause | Mebbe vice 1 Mebbe WAKE UP, SISTER; WAKE UP! oe al ple, ap Betsey Burrows, Suffragist—Kids |) of fost 66JT CERTAIN do make me hot in the |) "hs head spaces,’’ says old man Bunk ts | he do me, whilst he was settin’ on the porch | mites waitin’ to see Si "bout some heifers, “fe |) "3" f wimmen to be hitching on votes to theit |) com pu life haouses. Can't they see, the idjity |) (ONS that they got one big job a’ready that take bet ng considerable toilin’ and figurin’, and that wet job is kids?” Se wa “Why,” says I, ‘‘don’t you know tht} |i), kids 'n’ votes is so mixed up in the femak suff mind that you can’t tell where one begiss pee and t’other ends? It’s "cause wimmen it wakin’ up to the height ’n’ depth ’n’ widd of this here kid job of theirn that they't out hotfoot fur the ballot. Time was whe most famblies was riz clost to natur @ farms, and that if a ma kep’ her kié stuffed sufficient with vittals, rinsed pert odic with soapsuds, kivered with cloth doped fur disease, rammed inter school 't! says I; body to that if Structure creation, comichooks.com