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This page satirizes the women's suffrage movement through several anecdotes. The column, by Anna Cadogan Utz, presents itself as defending traditional gender roles against feminist demands. The opening story contrasts a Russian wife who accepts spousal abuse as her duty with a Jersey City woman who wants her abusive husband released only for childcare—suggesting women's liberation creates confusion and hypocrisy. The "Law Breakers the Law Respecters" section mocks feminists through two examples: a reformatory girl who finds voting "unladylike" (ironic undercutting of suffragettes' claims), and a divorced feminist who rejects alimony while incarcerated women support it. The author argues criminals respect traditional customs more than "radicals" seeking change. The satire's point: suffragists are hypocritical social agitators whose ideology contradicts women's actual values and behavior.
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