Judge, 1916-07-29 · page 20 of 28
Judge — July 29, 1916 — page 20: what you’re looking at
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This page contains satirical commentary on women's suffrage and gender relations, typical of Judge magazine's early 20th-century content. **"The Modern Woman" column** by Anna Cadogan Etz uses mock-statistical analysis to critique men who abandon families. The satire argues that wives must be simultaneously perfect homemakers AND economically productive—an impossible standard—yet the author observes that such "perfect women" wouldn't actually need husbands. **The political point**: The column advocates for women's suffrage as the solution to matrimonial inequality, arguing that "political equality" should be added to the list of factors ensuring successful marriages. This was a genuine suffrage argument of the era: that voting rights would give women legal and social power to protect themselves. **The irony**: While ostensibly sympathetic to women's struggles, the piece reinforces stereotypes about women's domestic duties while using them to argue for voting rights—reflecting how suffrage advocates sometimes framed the issue within traditional gender roles rather than challenging them outright. The surrounding advertisements for hotels and consumer goods represent typical Judge content filler.
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But if she is healthy, chcerful, loving and affectionate, fond of her home, sympathetic and considerate of her husband, and if she is frugal and industrious in the home, or works outside and brings moncy into the home: if she is all this, a perfect woman nobly planned, then will hubby continue to let the light of his presence shine upon her. Be it noted that if the woman is all the statistician says she must be to hold her husband, she is very well equipped to get along without him. But if she is sick and therefore peevish, in short, when she needs him most, then off he scoots. The statis- tician’s report shows the average husband to be a fair-weather Christian who stays in the sea of matrimony only when the “water is fine.” The final paragraph is all that rescues one from dire pessimism. There we are told that the thing that most insures success in matrimony is equality, equality in age, race, religion, moral standards, tempera- ment, health, physical strength. All these points were listed by the statistician. We note an important omission. To that long list of desirable equalities add _ political equality and matrimony is at last put upon a sure foundation, A fair scrutiny of di- vorce statistics from equal-suffrage states proves it, in spite of the fact that garbled reports sometimes secm to prove the con- trary. Women Must Show the Way F A very eminent medical authority knows what he is talking about—and if he doesn’t, why is he on the staff of one of our leading universities?—we are wasting our time talking about whether war is evitable or inevitable, for the plain truth is that the average American man is totally unfit for military service. He was bad enough when over half the professional men, and almost half the mercantile men, and 43 per cent. of the unskilled were rejected for service in the Civil War, but since then he has gone from bad to worse. There doesn’t seem to be anything right about him. 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