Judge, 1917-01-20 · page 18 of 28
Judge — January 20, 1917 — page 18: what you’re looking at
What you’re looking at
This page is primarily a **Vogue magazine advertisement** announcing a price increase from $4 to $5 annually, effective February 15th. The ad argues that Vogue is an economy, not luxury, because its fashion guidance saves readers from costly clothing mistakes—claiming a $4 subscription saves $400 in poor purchases. The right column contains **"Suffrage Snapshots"** by Ida Husted Harper, a political commentary on women's voting rights. It mocks Iceland and Denmark for granting women suffrage but never actually holding elections to test it ("istent polling places"). The piece also references **Jeannette Rankin**, the first woman elected to Congress from Montana, and sarcastically comments on the Woman's Party's attempts to leverage political power. The tone suggests frustration that despite winning the franchise, women lack practical opportunities to exercise it. Both sections reflect the magazine's 1916 context—women's suffrage remains incomplete and contentious.
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$4 Now—$5 Later T° take advantage of this Last Chance offer to secure Vogue at $4a year, your order must be in the mail by midnight of February 15th; after that date, Vogue will cost you $5. Don't bother to send money now, unless you wish. Just fill in and send in the coupon. A bill will be sent you in due course. Last chance to enter your sub- scription at VOGUE Will Raise its Price to $5 The present rate of $4 holds good until February 15th Owing to the tremendous increase in the cost of paper, labor and materials, Vogue—rather than lower its standard of production in the slightest degree—will raise its price on February 15th, from $4 a year to $5. Vogue is not an extravagance, as mere fiction magazines are. It is an economy, rather. Its advancé fashion information and authoritative advice insure you against “‘clothes mistakes” and save you many times its subscription price. $4. invested in Vogue a tiny fraction of your loss on a single ill-chosen hat or gown will save you $400 The gown you buy and never wear is the really expensive gown. Gloves, boots, hats, that miss being exactly what you want are the ones that cost more than you can afford. Consider, then, that for $4—and $4 surely is a tiny fraction of your loss on a single ill-chosen hat or gown —you may have before you through- out the whole year this world-wide fashion authority, thereby insuring the correctness of your gowning and saving you from costly mistakes. 24 Issues for $4 Even at the $5 price, Vogue will continue to be the least costly per copy of all the American “class” magazines appealing to people of taste. Vogue is published twice a month, giving you 24 issues a year, instead of the usual 12. Thus you spend $5 for 12 issues of Country Life, or the International Studio; $4 for 12 issues of Century, Harper's or The Allantic Monthly; but you spend at the rate of only $2.50 for every 12 issues of Vogue. And if you take adoantage of this Last Chance Offer of $4 for a year of Vogue, 24 issues, you spend at the rate of only $2 for 12 issues of Vogue. Conpfé Nast, Publisher Epna Wootman Cuase, Editor more. But to this very day the gallant Danes have never dared hold an election and put to the test the principle of political equality which they wrote in their Constity. tion a year and a half ago. The women of Denmark are still conning the works on civil government which they rushed out so eagerly to purchase in June, 1915, and are waiting still for a chance to use their ac. quired information. It can’t be said cf the enfranchised wo- men of Iceland and Denmark that they ; fritter away their time hanging about the polls. How could they hang about non-ex- istent polling places? The mills of political liberty in Iceland and Denmark may grind exceeding sure, but they surely do also grind exceeding slow. Suffrage Snapshots By IDA HUSTED HARPER ON’T WORRY. Rankin of Montana carried her State for woman suffrage and then managed her own campaign for election to Congress she is not going to fall for the first good-looking man she happens to meet in Washington Let’s see, isn’t Uncle Joe Cannon a widower? * The Woman’s Party insists that it has the Democrats in Congress scared stiff. Just as likely as not they won't be able to relax enough to cast a vote for that Federal e Amendment. And there are the what didn’t the women do to them at the last election? Will they tum the other cheek so that the women may give ak well as a blow? If the women haven't any power it’s of no use for them to appeal to Congress, and if they have power and exercise it then a part of Congress is bound to be hostile. It’s mighty hard to play the réle of a clinging vine and a sturdy oak at the same ine Yucatan has given the vote to women and the new constitution for Mexico may do the same. With equal suffrage in the entire West and a large part of Canada the women of the tern and Southern States are beginning to feel rather small, flat and unprofitable. They realize that their mea cannot trust them with a ballot and are entirely capable of running the government without their assistance. *s an Miss Jane Addams told the House Judi- ciary Committee in Washington the other day that “the nation is in a higgledy-pig- gledy state in regard to women’s voting.” We thank thee, Miss Addams, for that very apt expression. Can anybody think of ¢ more ridiculous spectacle than the United States as far as woman suffrage is concerned? It boasts in a voice like that shot which was fired at Lexington of being the greatest republic on earth, and sits up nights to sound its slogan, Equal Rights to All. And yet while in eleven States women can vote for everything that men can, and in twelfth can help select the President and all After Miss Jeannette | | | | |