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This page is primarily **advertisements and magazine content**, not political satire. The main article, "The Modern Woman: Curbside Comments" by Oreola W. Haskell, discusses infant mortality statistics gathered by Julia Lathrop of the Children's Bureau. **The key point:** Suffragists (women's voting rights advocates) are using empirical data—lower infant death rates in well-maintained neighborhoods versus poor ones—to argue that **women need the ballot to improve public health conditions** like housing, sanitation, and food safety. The article suggests voting women have already improved such conditions, so voting mothers could further reduce child mortality. This represents **early 20th-century feminist argumentation**: women framed voting rights not as abstract equality but as practical necessity for protecting children and families. It's pro-suffrage advocacy disguised as public health reporting. The remainder of the page contains standard advertisements (whisky, golf balls, jewelry, hotels)—typical Judge magazine filler content.

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NEW YORK CITY European Plan 500 Rooms 400 Baths with adjoining bath, $1,00 and $1.50. ‘lor, bedroom and bath, $3.00 and uj Club Breakfast, 25¢ up. Special Luncheon, {ie up. Table d Hote Dinner, Te up. Cafe attached. To Reach Hotel Chelsea. From Pennsylvania Station, 7th Avenue car south to 234 ‘Rireet Grand Central, 4th Avenue ear south to 234 Street Laceawanna, frie, Reading, Raltimore & Ohio, Jersey Central ‘and Lehich Val We 'Stationa, take 23d Street cross east to Hotel Chi Steamship Piers, Foot West 23d Street, take 234 street crosstown ear. Write for Colored Map of New York. THE MODERN WOMAN Curbside Comments By OREOLA W. HASKELL The Infant Industry UFFRAGISTS who have long maintained that besides maternal love and service, ballots in the hands of mothers are needed as baby boosters, confess to a secret joy at the result of an investigation made by Miss Julia Lathrop, head of the Children’s Bureau in Washington. Realizing that the stork harvest of the country, which is two and one- half millions of babies annually, is depleted by the untimely decease of three hundred thousand infants who dic before reaching their second birthday, Miss Lathrop deter- mined to find out why 12 per cent. of our future citizens do not survive and why per cent. do. ecting Johnstown, Pa a place sustaining about the same perce of loss as the country at large, Miss Lathrop had personal interviews with nine thousand womerfwho in one year presented contribu- tions to posterity. The conclusion drawn is that the infant death-rate varies in accord- ance with living conditions, being only five per cent. in those wards where environments are good and 27 per cent. in those where they are bad. — Since living conditions comprise housing, clean streets, the proper handling of rubbish and garbage, pure food, and many other things controlled by politics, which are under the supervision of officials elected by voters, and since western women have bettered just’ such conditions by voting, the link connecting babies and ballots seems to have been strengthened. We can indeed stand a cessation of masculine howls about the protection of our infant industri but an inerease in the demands of women to help safeguard the great original infant industry might bring some good results. A Slump in Gentility ALES who have long execrated the piano as manipulated by the petti- coated young of the species will rejoice that in England at least that abettor of musical bedlam, the female piano teacher, is practi- tinct in the small towns and villages, ing transferred herself and her nimble fingers to the ammunition factorie In consequence the daughters of tradespeople who formerly aspired to gentility through the music and embroidery that seemed to bring them nearer to the fashionable rich, have been obliged to come down from the giddy and unstable heights of the and the artificial to the stern rea life. ‘Thus do the horrors of war oft do away with some of the horrors of peace. Humbleness vs. Honor AS 3AIN must the mourners assemble round the bier of the Noble Spirit of the Past and bewail its defunctness. 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