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This page satirizes anti-feminist anxieties of the early 20th century. The column "The Modern Woman: Curbside Comments" mock-laments that educated women (holding B.A. degrees) are now *desirable* to employers, contradicting traditional prejudices against "blue stockings" (intellectual women). The satire's target: male anxiety disguised as social concern. The author ironically "mourns" that women's education threatens society's stability, that female graduates earn competitive salaries, and that schoolgirls outperform boys academically—presenting these as disasters rather than progress. The piece includes a jab at Congressman Bowdle's anti-suffrage speech, further mocking resistance to women's advancement. The irony is the satire's weapon: by exaggerating male complaints as "sorrowful," the author ridicules them as baseless fears. The ads (Wilson whiskey, Cook's champagne) frame the commentary ironically within "modern" consumer culture.

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THE MODERN WOMAN Curbside Comments By OREOLA W. WASKELL Feminine B. A.’s ‘E OF THE saddest and subtlest effects of the Rise of Woman is not the puffed ego she presents to view but the fact that the noble and con. tive convictions of men concerning the petticoated portion of the race are going to pot. Into the discard now has fallen, alas! the male aversion to the feminine Blue Stocking, a dislike that has made literature bloom with antagonistic allusions to the Learned Lucys of the past. Now the reports of the Intercollegiate Bureau of Occupations for Women show that far from avoiding feminine Bachelors of Arts, business men demand them in increasing numbers. Blind to the fact that they are loosening the Bulwarks of Society which require a foundation of female ignorance and helplessnes to hold them stable, employers not only demand the Pale Product of Higher Education but lure her to their offices by wads of the long green that are bigger than those proffered to the female who has never grasped a sheepskin Extra Dry e 4s Ginn pagme Fill your glass with the juice of the grape, transformed by time and skill into bubbles and bouquet aa. the very essence of perfection in purity, flavor and life. Sold everywhere— Served everywhere AMERICAN WINE CO. ST. LOUIS, U.S. A. HAND IN HAND Here in America most successful Worse than this, a comparison of the salaries commanded by men collegias ‘ i and women graduates of the highest halls of learning show the women much men appraise things sanely and con- to the good. In the face of such dementia shown by the shop-keeping ss ° : ! what is the use of noble tirades from those wko see the rocks upon whit duct their affairs moderately. humanity is madly rushing? None whatever. It is best then to dismis . the sorrowful subject with the chaste and simple comment—* Alas! the And it is among these men who wot not what they do.” The Mean Things ! practice the virtue of moderation (THE FACULTY of the Jamaica Long Island High School to offset that we find our best market for a : , Best a devotion to alts on the part ofthe piasculine scenes * ° their control recently decided that only those pupils who passed an wonderfully mild and mellow Whiskey of seventy in their studies would be considered linible to ser —Wilson—Real Wilson—That’s All! Athletic Board of the school. Instead of purposely standing back ao! giving their brothers all the chances for the coveted honors, the girls measly 7a : . . and brazenly gained the necessary averages and they were the only ones The Whiskey for which we invented the Non-Refillable Bottle reach the required mark. It is inconceivable that mere feminine fledgling: known to possess inferior brain cells would do such a dastardly thing, wee FREE CLUB RECIPES—Free booklet of famous club recipes for they not contaminated by the example set by their petticoated elders. mixed drinks. Address Wilson, 315 Fifth Ave.,N. Y. That's All! alas! the y babies in the cradle if female will try to put one over te masculine infants. And in fact ’tis already done, for statistics tell us th girls are now born with larger and r bodies than are boys. “Tis tine then that the Mothers of the Country, who are to ne for every derelictie of the human race, rose up and instilled into every girl the meckness. prope to her natural mediocrity. . Another Blow ONGRESSMAN BOWDLE of Ohio who once delivered in the cous of an anti-suffrage speech in the House of Representativ touchisg eulogy on The Old Man (meaning the American “hubby” and “poppet! comicbooks.com