Judge, 1916-05-06 · page 20 of 28
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This page primarily features **advertisements** (Cook's Champagne and Wilson Whiskey) alongside a satirical article titled "The Modern Woman: Suffrage Facts and Fancies" by Anna Cadogan Eiz. The article mocks women's expanding social participation during the suffrage era. It criticizes female authors attending prize fights for "thrills," expresses dismay that women now play chess competitively, and laments women entering advertising—traditionally male-dominated fields. The satire's point: progressive women infiltrating male spaces supposedly proves women aren't inherently superior to men, merely had fewer opportunities. The author presents women's equality ironically as a *loss*—men lose exclusive havens of "undiluted masculinity." The piece exemplifies early 20th-century anti-feminist sentiment using humor to argue that expanding women's freedoms reveals they're ordinary, not morally better, thus undermining suffrage arguments about women's special virtues.
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