Judge, 1915-12-18 · page 20 of 28
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This page satirizes the women's suffrage movement through three scenarios that expose male hypocrisy about what constitutes "womanly" behavior: **The Arizona sheriff story** ridicules conservatives who condemn a woman elected official for being "unwomanly"—even though she herself opposes the short skirts worn by fashionable women, suggesting she shares their values. **The San Francisco voting story** mocks the press for blaming women for low voter turnout, despite men outnumbering women 131-to-100 in the city. It highlights how men historically blamed women (Eve) for society's problems regardless of actual responsibility. **The Connecticut woman anecdote** exposes the ultimate contradiction: a woman who hunts game for her family and proves willing to shoot for the military is deemed unfit to vote—yet "decent" men impose this standard without shame. The cartoon "The White Man's Burden" visualizes this hypocrisy: men load impossible contradictions onto women regarding voting rights. The satire's point: opponents of suffrage use arbitrary, shifting definitions of "womanly" behavior to deny women rights, while ignoring their own illogical standards.
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It isn’t decent And then the lady sheriff scored by con- demning the ultra short skirts which are worn by all the would-be fashionables even by those who blush at the thought of entering one of those “dreadful poll- ing places.” The lady sheriff s that they did not seem to her to be “womanly.” Cherchez la Femme UT in San Fran- cisco, where the voters did not march en masse to the polls this fall, at every op- portunity the press blamed the slump in good citizenship to the women. That there are one hundred and thirty-one and a half males to each one hundred females in that city did not serve to release the women from being shouldered with the entire re- sponsil Old habits are hard to break, even when and where women vote. The recent an- nouncement by a leading archeologist that to Noah’s door should be laid the sin and misery of the world; that it was his chewing of the Cassia bark that started the ball roll- ing toward perdition, counts for nothing to a world that has been taught for thousands of years that Eve was the guilty lady. If Women Can Shoot They Can Vote A CON TICUT woman who includes in her daily round of duties not only washing the dishes and soothing the baby but shouldering her gun to furnish game for supper, has been interviewed on votes for women. She declared her willingness to shoulder her gun for Uncle Sam with the zeal that she wings game for her But votes for women! Not such is same family table unless they can handle a shotgun her edict ¢ THE WHITE MAN'S BURDEN ADOGAN ETZ So be it, chimes the suffrage chorus, N person, man or woman, shall vote, whoa? not handle a shotgun. We acce; t handicap offered to all alike, A Compliment to “ Judge” Mr. James A. Waldron, Editor of Judge: Dear Str:—In the name of the Woman Suffrage Party of Greater New York, U want to thank you most sincerely for the splendid support Jupce has given the cause of Woman Suffrage through its Modern Woman page. Many magazines and newspapers championed our principles during the cam. paign but Jupce deserves double credit hecause it helped to sow the seeds of suf. frage long before there was any hint of g campaign. — Without your help the suffrage amendment would never have polled such a tremendous vote through the state and I want you to know that we are all deeply appreciative and grateful. Most yours, Mary Garrett Hay, Chairman of Woman Suffrage Party of Greater New York. cordially But She Wouldn't Tel “Honest, now, Jack, if you were a girl, and a young man you liked awfully much just begged and begged for a kiss, and there was no one around, what would you do?” “What sort of a chap?” brother Jack inquired cautiously. “Oh, a nice sort like “Oh, I reckon I'd kiss him. you do, sis?” “Oh, I supposing!” was the indignant protest. ‘And, anyway, if I ever in my life done such a thing, I woulda’t tell. But I’m awfully glad you don’t think I've done anything I shouldn't, Jack.” Ned Williams” What did was only Leap-Year Figuring HEN she Feb Should a. spin reaches. sixty: *Slim the chances that are mine?” Nay, hee eyes may brighter shine With anticipation keen, Since her birthdays demonstrate She is only seventeen! Frederick Moxee. The morning-glory is prettier than the buckwheat cake, but you can’t eat morning: