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This page contains two distinct sections: **advertising** (top half) and **satirical commentary** (bottom half). The **main satirical piece** is "Curbside Comments" by Oreola W. Haskell, featuring dialogue between Sam Snoops (a rural male skeptic) and an unnamed female suffragist. Sam mocks women's suffrage activism, complaining that pro-voting mail clutters the post office and joking about women like "Miss Bates" being unfit for public office. The female responder counters by citing actual evidence from Wyoming and Colorado—states where women have voted for 40+ years—showing that women haven't abandoned their homes en masse for political positions, but have quietly filled educational and administrative roles. Her point: women's participation in governance is moderate and responsible, not the chaotic power-grab men fear. The cartoon "The Man Who Tried to Carry Water on Both Shoulders" illustrates the futility of opposing women's suffrage while benefiting from female labor. **Context**: This reflects 1910s-era suffrage debates, where anti-suffrage arguments centered on women's "natural" domestic role, while pro-suffrage evidence pointed to successful women voters in western states.

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As Always— you drink champagne for its superiority over every other drink that ever was invented. Now —drink Cook's Imperial Extra Dry for its superiority over all other champagnes; irre- spective of war, war prices and your inability to purchase that foreign label which you used to think represented the acme of champagne goodness. Sold everywhere— Served everywhere AMERICAN WINE Co. Sr. Louis, U. S. A. J Every Married Couple and all who contemplate marriage Should Own this complete informative book “The Science of a New Life” By JOHN COWAN, M.D. Endorsed and recommended by foremost nd religious erities throughout i he secrets of married a No of the chapter book is not meant for cbil ted.) ages. Age at Which Love Analysed. Choos id, UDO re- Descriptive circular giving full and complete of 82.00 table of contents mailed FREK. T HE MODERN WOMay CURBSIDE COMMENTS By OREOLA Betsy Burrows, Feminist—Chasin’ the Jobs SOY ALLER envelopes—hey?” says Sam Snoops, as he lays down reluctant the postal addressed to Miss Bings as he’s been reading and flops down a couple of stamps fer me to use—“I’m on to yaller now, you bet. I think mebbe every post clerk is in the hull bloomin’ state. The votes for wimmen mail that goes yallerly shrieking through this here offerce is sumpin’ scander- lous. You and your sassiety of sufferingettes has gone after the innercent hayseeds hereabouts with actool ferocity. Ef you hain’t buried ’em under a avalanche of literatoor, they must be all runnin’ round the field yellin’ votes fer wimmen at the peaceful caows. Wal, you females ain’t so all fired wrong—they’s sumpin’ to it like they is to measles. I'd pitch my vote your way if ‘twant fur one thing and thet is—it stands to reason you ain’t goin’ to stop jest drappin’ a piece of paper in a box oncet a year— you’re goin’ to go chasin’ after the politi- cal jobs. And when I think of wimmen as can’t run fur a trolley runnin’ fur offerce, it makes me sick. Jest ’magine old Miss Bates doin’ the sheriff act—a waddlin’ ‘round after sum of the burglars ’n boozers—” “Wal,” sez I, calm, “she couldn’t git to be sheriff ‘thout the men voters give per- mission, so I dunno as you need to worry none. When us wim- men vote the men ‘ull vote too and secin’ we got more men than women I 'magine you'll keep on shovin’ male creatures inter offerce same as, usual fur sum time to come. And jest why you should think old Ma Bates as has got a stiddy job now running a house, a farm, a husband and four children, should hanker after any other beats me. I don’t see the averidge run of men runnin’ fur offerce, why should the averidge run of wimmen do it? But we don’t have to guess "bout this. Jest check up the ekal suffridge states and see how real full fledged female voters act there. Have they all rushed madly frum their hums to hold offerce leaving cryin’ babies, sobbin’ husbands and burning vittals behind ’em? In Wyoming where they’ve been casting ballots fur forty- five years, there is two members of the legislatoor and a number of wimmen servin’ as county superintendent of schools. Don’t sound so terrible grabby to my mind. In w. THE MAN WHO TRIED TO CARRY WATER ON BOTH SHOULDERS HASKELL Colorady, where wimmen has voted f twenty years, most of the eddycationl offerces has been turned over to’em. There’ a woman president of the ‘lection board in Denver, they’s two city auditors, eight a treasurers, three city clerks, ten couaty clerks and one county commissioner —th, hull caboodle female—but only these in the hull state and this is twicet as much as any time in its hist’ry. Wal, I wouldnt think this ‘ud leave the majority of hums minus \the female presence. There has been two wimmen legislators too in Colh Utah’s had three wimmen. legislatooren, in Idaho the female sex has gone in tae on eddycation with about twenty treasure, ships and auditorships to their credit, while the state of Washington has jumped two wimmen out of their spheres to help make laws fer the fambly. | ain't heered no chorus of complaint comin’ from the westem states from poor, pushed out men. Instid I heerd one man say he thort wimmen had kinder shirked their duty when it come to holdin’ of- ferce. Charity ’n’ ed- dycation allus looms terrible large in the feminine eye and if wimmen is to go chasia’ fur seats among the mighty, they longs fur jest sech jobs which don’t have sech a Le relei lure fur men. So, Sam, ef you're agin suf- fridge fur the gals fur the reason you state it looks like a kind of pindlin’ one ter me. Way off in the years to come mebbe there'll be multitudes of females workin’ brazon fur the state, but that'll be after another generation has growed up with different idees and arter lots of the long whiskered antiques has mouldered away in the tomb.” The Alternative A shower of pink tracts is falling on the summer fair-goers bringing a message from the anti-suffrage association as follows: “Woman, you do not want to vote becaus, among other blessings, you can now work, and earn money and spend it as you please.” “Work!” ejaculates the homekeeping woman on whom it falls, “I should say 9 Earn money? When? Where?” “Just as I please,” murmurs the average wage-earning girl as she cons the pink mes sage. “With my six dollar per I can choos whether I will have dinners this week of new hat.” Y2 SF. KFEQGSAORBESH .PASKERAREE