Judge, 1916-07-22 · page 4 of 28
Judge — July 22, 1916 — page 4: what you’re looking at
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This page combines editorial content with satirical illustrations. The main editorial titled "Editorials: Sixes and Sevens" discusses women's voting rights and public opinion during election years, referencing a woman's "privilege of speaking the first word in the matrimonial joint debate." The top illustration depicts leisure activities—swimming, tree-sitting, and horseback riding—suggesting upper-class recreation. The lower cartoon, captioned "Dan the Diver Goes Home to Dinner Without Changing His Clothes as Usual," shows a muddy swimmer dripping wet, presumably entering a home. This appears to be domestic humor mocking inconsiderate male behavior. The editorial content suggests this reflects early-20th-century debates about women's political participation and domestic authority, presented through Judge's characteristic satirical lens.
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Once In Four Years NCE in four years, the leap year girl may exercise her privilege of speaking the first word in the matrimo- nial joint debate. In other years, the man speaks the first word—or im- agines he does, although as a rule he is the phono- graph which utters a feminine decis- ion already arrived at—while she, of course, reserves the feminine prerogative of the last word. But her first word is not her last word, nor her last word her first word—unless she is dumb, and in that case she makes a motion for the pre- vious question. The other leap year girl breaks silence every fourth year and does an impressive bit of speaking and decision. Public Opinion is her name. Two men court her favor and anxiously await her saying the word. There are two great organiza- tions, known as National Committees, who set themselves up in loco parentis. They fuss and they fume, they advise and thi hort, for all the world like a girl’s natural parents. Mightily do they strive to influence her decision. And the fickle jade, Public Opinion? She finds out which suitor is by odds the one she ought to select—and selects the other one. For if she will, she will, depend on it—if she won't, she won't, and there’s an end on’t. There being in this case but two, of dire necessity she must choose in accord with one set of parental advice—but in accord with, not because of, that advice! So the other fellow wins—and Uncle Sam and Miss Columbia—dear old maiden aunt!—are as happy as a mar- riage bell ringing out the proved cer- tainty of a Reno four years hence. Not illogically or against nature has Miss Public Opinion made it almost a proverb that he who bets on any election should copper “the logical candidate.” Once in four years! Ah, but these are the extraneous, the occasional, the accidental—these are not the eternal verities. Fortuna’ for the race, the real blessings of life come not every fourth year, but every year—such as marriage and divorce, falling alike upon and blessing, like the gentle dews of heaven, or Portia’s quality of mercy, him who gives the decree and her who takes the alimony. the just and the unjust Unlike sitting on a hot stove, a Presi- dent’s antipathy to a second trip is most acute before the first. Sixes and Sevens you may decry the talkative states- man—but do you notice much Henry Clay or Daniel Webster statuary defacing the public parks? 2 Many a man has lost a good friend by ii im for the loan of a dollar.—Phila- delphia Telegraph. Well, you can terminate the friendship —or ieave it a loan. 2 Carranza may pussyfoot around for protection to home banditry, but Villa is the lad who brings home the bacon on a revenue only basis. 2 Saddening thought: How many of the friends of your youth would lend you a pint of gasoline? For that matter, how many of them would you lend one? DAN, THE DIVER. GOES HOME TO DINNER WITHOUT CHANGING HIS CLOTHES AS USUAL