Judge, 1916-03-18 · page 20 of 28
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This article celebrates women's suffrage victory in Manitoba with satirical humor about gender dynamics. The piece describes how after legislators granted women voting rights, both sexes sang patriotic songs praising each other—a comedic portrayal of sudden mutual admiration replacing prior conflict. The author then argues that women succeed through "craft" rather than brute strength, using examples: a rural schoolteacher wins classroom control via a revolver shot (not physical dominance), and evolution favors cunning over muscle. The satire suggests women's political power derives from intelligence and tactical skill, not masculine aggression. A small illustration captioned "THE RIGHT FINGER IN THE PIE" depicts a woman guiding a child, reinforcing the theme of female influence through subtle direction rather than force. The page reflects early-20th-century feminist arguments: that women's different methods—patience, cleverness, precision—made them equally or more effective than men's traditional approaches, thus justifying their political enfranchisement.
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Because of the “well” in the bowl of the Welling- ton, the last grain of to- bacco burns toa dry ash. It means a clean, cool, dry smoke from start to finish. That’sone reason why the Wellington is the most popular pipe in the world. At All Dealers’ 35c and up Look for the triangle WDC on pipes of every style. It means greatest pipe value. WILLIAM DEMUTH & CO. New York PURE "oop rN 1 ey Ww iskey Meese The Inspector 4 1 Is Back OF Every Bottle BS WANTED—AN IDEA! WHO CAN THINK OF SOME simple thing to patent. Protect your ideas, thry mav bring you wealth. Write for “Needed Ii.ventions” and “How to Get Your Patent and Your Money.* Randolph & Co. Patent Attorneys, Dept. 129, Washington, D.C. PERSONAL Meurs, GOODERHAM & WORTS (Limited), Toronto, Canada beg to announce that the whisky they are now sending to the United States is TEN VEARS OLD. |THE MODERN WOMAN Suffrage Facts and Fancies By ANNA Echoes from Manitoba + HERE IS nothing dull about a legislative triumph for woman suffrage. The suffragists do not march on the state house; wrest voting privileges from the law-make' walk sternly away leaving the solons sulking in their seats. ot a bit of it. Men and women are never so pleased with each other as when the men have just given and the ved the right to vote. Manitoba, where early in the year woman suffrage made port without an adverse breeze —that is, without an adverse vote—proved it anew. The minute the bill wa arose and burst into sor Being patriotic, they “O Canada!” Then the women sang y Are Jolly Good Fellows” meaning the men who voted for suffrage. Then the men sang “ They Are Jolly Good Fellows” — meaning the women whom they had invited into the government. Even the man who feared that “if women voted men would have to stay home the baby in polit paigns” voted and wished the success—whether in vot- ing or getting their hus- bands domiciled he did not explain. “Woman,” declared one legislator, “would - not change her nature or her methods because she was a voter, She would attack the evils of society by no masculine method, but ctly as she in domestic life attacked the setting hen, with patience and per- severance; so would she attack the in- trenched evils of society.” The next day the press patted the province passed everybody y glad that they had been born until y gave their women the vote. Men of stern states are invited to sit up and take notice. The Race Is to the Swift but Not the Battle to the Strong HEN THE earth was young, mammoth animals walked abroad and claimed it for their own. As the long train of ages moved along, these in time were displaced by smaller and more crafty creatures. When human society was young, brawn and muscle won all the pri But, as the long train of ages moved along, again cunning and craft triumphed. A light touch suffices for a machine gun and excess of THE RIGHT FINGER IN THE PIE {DOGAN ETZ muscle wins nought save a weak heart. The fittest shall survive, said Darwin, True, said Krapotkin, but who are the fit? We turn to the press for information and find two instances in one city daily: Three teachers cope in turn with a rural school in Oregon. Two men followed by a slight young woman. The men were routed by the pupils. The woman, by quietly shooting with her pocket revolver the cup of r out of the hand of the boy who was raising it to his lips in defiance of her order, won the day and all succeeding days. She thus survived as the fittest; the small and weak over the big and strong. A miss not out of her teens, a junior in Barnard, sprints for the Earle Prize in Greek and Latin with many Columbia youths. She leaves them by the wayside. In her high-school days she had also been the leading hundred-yard sprinter of her school. Again a lit- tle girl survives in com- petition with strong men and the fit is not the heavy-weight. Holding in mind these facts of biological history reinforced by current events, the feminist movement becomes no weird departure of a set of disgruntled females, but a part of the orderly progress of the world, and votes for women just the next pleasant easy step. If it is cunning and craft or skilland swiftness that are needed to qualify, woman is the creature with her nose already through the pasture bars. Men, Have a Heart! ASHION, that commercialized jade of whom women are merely the victims, decreed the hobble skirt. Nature kicked, and the slit—which otherwise would have been a tear—appeared. Then uprose a chief of police in an Eastern city and put forth the edict that the slit should be just so many inches and not an inch more. Fashion decreed the peek-a-boo waist. Peeking was not contpulsory or necessarily harmful, but uprose a Southern solon and introduced a bill making this well-ventilated blouse illegal. And now when women are fi joy in the freedom of their short ski ts so well above the mire, so clean and so safe, uprises another Southern solon and introduces bill setting four inches from the ground and three from the neck as the top and bottem limits for a woman’s dress if she would evade th jail. O Men, have a heart! Let women? the government or leave them out. Jing untold comicbooks.com