Judge, 1916-02-05 · page 20 of 28
Judge — February 5, 1916 — page 20: what you’re looking at
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This page is primarily **travel advertising** for luxury cruises to Nassau and Havana, with several opinion pieces in the right column. The notable satirical content addresses **women's suffrage**. The main article "Votes for Women and the Bloom of Youth" mocks suffragists by claiming that a prominent women's rights advocate abandoned activism after discovering she'd "lost ground" personally. It sarcastically suggests that press depictions have replaced the "scarecrow" image of suffragists with prettier, younger women—implying suffragists are only taken seriously when conventionally attractive. "Sauce for the Goose" presents a **divorce court anecdote** highlighting legal double standards: a judge denied a woman's divorce request because her husband controlled whether she could dance. The author argues this same judge would never rule that a husband must obey his wife's wishes about smoking, exposing the hypocrisy of unequal marital law. Both pieces use sarcasm to critique anti-suffrage attitudes and gender inequality in law, though from a somewhat condescending perspective toward feminism itself.
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