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Judge — March 25, 1916 — page 22: what you’re looking at
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This page combines an advertisement with political satire about women's suffrage, a hotly contested issue of the early 20th century. **Left side:** Advertisement for Collier's magazine promoting a serialized story beginning March 25th, featuring a vagabond character named Hood from Meredith Nicholson's novel. **Right side:** "The Modern Woman: Suffrage Facts and Fancies" by Anna Cadogan Etz presents pro-suffrage arguments in Q&A format, directly countering anti-suffrage claims. She argues women voters would prioritize children's welfare over business interests, cites Colorado evidence that women voters increased school funding, and dismisses fears of a "bad woman vote" by noting women commit fewer crimes than men. A final section uses bird behavior as a metaphor—if men adopted birds' monogamous morals alongside learning their flight, society would benefit. The tone is gently mocking of male anxieties about female voting power, presenting suffrage as harmless or beneficial rather than revolutionary.
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“Tm a hobo with a weak- ness for good society,” says Hood, the myste- rious gentleman- vagabond hero of Meredith Nichol- son’s “The Mad- ness of May.’’ How he and his chauffeur drove Billy Deering from Westchester to happiness is charmingly told in the four parts of this blithe- some story. The first part will be published in the March 25th issue of Collier's THE NATIONAL WEEKLY 416 West 13th Street, New York City THE MODERN WOMAN Suffrage Facts and Fancies By ANNA CADOGAN ETZ Question and Answer HE Conservative But Enguiring Gentleman: You don't think that you are any better than men or wiser, do you, so that you would change this old world with that little vote you are screaming for so lustily? T Ausiastic Suffra, In many ways we are not so good; on many questions we are not so w but we shift the emphasis off the needs of business onto the needs of children. You ask me to prove it? In Colorado eminent authority vows it is easier to get money for the schools since women vote; in North Carolina more money is invested in automobiles than in education and more money spent on upkeep for autos than for teachers for children. Not that women love autos less, she added, but children more. Why the “Bad Woman Vote” Can't Be Delivered TY per cent. of the juvenile court culprits are boys. If you don't eve it, ask the leading lady at the National Congress of Mothers to prove it, for she it was who said it. It may be that women are too good or too scared to break the law The reason is immaterial. The fact is that the girl is less delinquent than the boy; that the woman is far, far more law abiding than the man; that the bogie of the “bad woman vote” has nothing back of it. The goods can't be delivered, for they aren’t there. Morals as Well as Navigation Men Might Learn from the Birds. S6C)H, FOR the wings of a bird!” sang man with great gusto, and at last the aeroplane rewarded his years of patient imitation. Now the biologists are telling us that man would better go right on yearning and sing, “Oh, for the morals of a bird!” and that if he would, with the same assiduity with which he perfected his flying machine, the evils of the d- vorce court might disappear from the land. The feminists who watched with calm interest while men hit the trail of the bird as to navigation, are wildly excited about having human society adopt the bird’s marriage code, for it means that most of their dreams wil become as ordinary as the aeroplane at the rural fair; that the burden of dress display will be shifted on to male shoulders; that monogamy will be a more nearly realized ideal; that equality will prevail and male gallantry survive—even the sight of women at the ballot box. In short, women have everything to gain and nothing to lose. Why Texas Women Want the Vote N’T THIS subtle? In accents sweet, the leader of the Texas woman suffrage movement thus reassures the men of her state: ‘Woman has taken man for better or worse, and while we all love him and will stay with n to the end, we'd rather have him better than worse, and that is the reason we want the vote.” ven so is the Texan comforted with the information that votes for women will prove a soothing ointment and not a mustard plaster. Why Worry? OMEN VOTERS don’t camp at the polls and leave the home to its own destruction. The Attorney-General of Kansas has so testified. Women voters still care for the health of their familics. Statistics bear witness that the undertaker’s bell in Kansas doesn’t begin to get the wear that it does in eastern states. Women voters don’t necessarily mean the triumph of the prohibitionists or the liquor interests, for six of the woman suffrage states wave the probi- bition flag and six do not. Women voters do not bring the millennium. Listen to the echoes of graft from Chicago and the roar of industrial discord from Colorado. Women voters do not wreck the finances of a state. Kansas is out of debt and Wyoming has a surplus. Women voters are merely human beings muddling along at self-goverm ment much the same way as men. Let them muddle. Why worry? Knocked Its Eye Out The modern wife, in her attitude toward her husband, is the patty who took the i out of deify. cou comicbooks.com