Judge, 1916-09-16 · page 20 of 28
Judge — September 16, 1916 — page 20: what you’re looking at
What you’re looking at
This page contains three distinct sections: a **Vafiadis Cigarettes advertisement** (top), a book advertisement for *Letters of a Self-Made Failure* by Maurice Switzer (bottom left), and an article titled **"The Modern Woman: Suffrage Facts and Fancies"** by Anna Cadogan Etz (right). The suffrage article recounts a former Colorado resident's conversion to women's voting advocacy. The woman initially opposed suffrage but, when able to vote in Colorado (an early women's suffrage state), cast ballots for causes affecting women—a juvenile court judge and presidential candidate. The piece argues that abstract opposition to women's voting shifts to support when women experience voting's *practical benefits*. It references a reporter's 1920 tour finding no women unwilling to vote. The satire's point: women weren't naturally political but became engaged voters when voting addressed their concrete concerns (child protection, presidential choice). This counters anti-suffrage predictions that women wouldn't use the ballot. The ads are contextual period pieces, unremarkable to the analysis.
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