Judge, 1915-10-02 · page 9 of 30
Judge — October 2, 1915 — page 9: what you’re looking at
What you’re looking at
This page contains early 20th-century satirical content about women's suffrage and gender relations. The main cartoon depicts a dinner scene where a woman threatens a man with what suffragettes called a "strike"—women refusing domestic labor. The man dismissively calls her "a peach of a strike breaker," mocking the threat. The accompanying quiz by G. Vere Tyler sarcastically lists all the ways waiters (and by extension, service workers and wives) control men through indispensability, manipulation, and emotional power—undermining the woman's threat by suggesting men already lack power in these relationships. The satire works by inverting suffrage arguments: rather than acknowledging women's legitimate grievances about legal inequality, it suggests women already wield domestic power, making their demands for political rights unnecessary. Additional content includes unrelated humor about beef trust investigations and water consumption—typical filler material for the magazine's satirical format.
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She—Vhink of what will happen to you when we suffrage women go on one day strike. WHO? by G. VERE TYLER HO IS ubiquitous? Who is indispensable to your com- fort? Who is it from whom you crave sympathy? Who listens to you with the greatest solici- tude and most criti- cal appreciation? Who exerts the most terrifying insolence? Who possesses unruffled composure? Who never fails to meet you with an ap- praising glance? Who inflicts the most painful neglect? Who doles you time with the greatest accuracy? Who in manner-and bearing puts tu shame your awkwardness? Who has you the most completely in his power? Who bends to you with the most gracious smile? Who is the most willing to aid in seeing you fleeced? Who is ever immaculately costumed regard- less of the hour? Who realizes or dashes your hopes? LES. a peach of a strike breaker in view Who has the most ingratiatingly pleasing or superciliously displeasing manner? Who possesses the most puzzling of per- sonalities? Who most nearly anticipates your wishes? Who dominates your judgment and leads you astray? Who pulls the strings behind the scenes? Who inflicts on you the most cutting silence? Who makes you feel your poverty? Who shames you into lavish display? Who scorns your use of a foreign language? Who can be both ardent and impassive? Who can be obsequious and not repel? Who disdains familiarity? Who is intolerant of provincial good-hu- mored complacency? Who does not find a ‘Srube” amusing? Who is infallible in his estimate of human nature? Who can turn interest quickest into scorn? Who despises a snob? Who rejoices in a bon-vivant? Who frowns upon temperance? Who is it you part with after intimate converse with the least emotion? Who always on parting de- mands of you a souvenir? Who dismisses you with a silent blessing or smothered curse?” THE WAITER The brute—Go ahead, old girl! I've got Sometime: ARE informed by Holy Writ, Duchadnezzar—think of it! Presumably he must Ate Have hoped to cripple the beef trust. Had Neb been strictly up to date, The beef trust he'd investigat Fill up the press with tales galore, Make wages less, and meat cost more. ‘The Stars and Stripes I do revere, My country’s flag, without a peer! But when my butcher's bill T con Sometimes I yearn for Babylon: —Albert E. Hoyt Taking No Chances “Upson, old man, you shun drinking water almost as if you were scared of it.” “IT am,” shuddered Upson Downs, the promising but not paying young business man. “A doctor told me more than eighty per cent. of my body is water already, and I'm afraid to dilute myself any more.” A TENDER PARTING comicbooks.com