Judge, 1917-01-20 · page 19 of 28
Judge — January 20, 1917 — page 19: what you’re looking at
What you’re looking at
This page contains **primarily text commentary on women's suffrage** alongside period advertisements—not a single unified political cartoon. The left column satirizes inconsistent American suffrage laws. Judge ridicules that U.S. states restrict women's voting rights while the Dutch Parliament (unexpectedly) proposed allowing women to hold office but not vote. The text also notes the contradiction that more women are joining suffragist movements in New York City even as marriage licenses increase—suggesting men rush to marry women before they gain independence. Additional jabs target women's demonstrable competence: spelling test winners are mostly girls, yet only boys "know enough to vote"; a congresswoman speaks more effectively than male orators; a woman won a typewriting championship but will lose the job to a man. The advertisements—for Richmond Straight Cut cigarettes and a cartooning instruction book—are period commercial content unrelated to the political commentary.
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ts nette State 1 her S she oking gton wer? 's the ist as relax deral > the n do tum give omen m to ower es is rd to urdy omen may 1 the | | | | 1 are meant Judi- other if pi: cannot vote for the public dog-catcher. A few of these States consider it safe to let them vote for school trustees but about twenty are afraid to trust them even to this extent. Here’s to the United States—the land of the free, the home of the brave and the grand domain of higgledy-piggledy suffrage! * The United States Senate in a burst of generosity voted 54 to 15 that if a refer- endum on Prohibition should be submitted to the people of the District of Columbia women should be allowed to vote, and then in a burst of something else decided not to have a referendum The old saying that “it beats the Dutch” will have to be revised, for the Dutch Par- liament has done something which can't be beaten. Its proposed new constitution makes women eligible for all offices, even a seat in Parliament, but refuses to let them vote. If they prove themselves capable of filling these offices then the men may con- sider giving them the suffrage! Nobody can ever do anything along this line that beats the Dutch. There are about ten Limes as many women suffragists in New York City as there were at the beginning of 1916 and yet 7,487 more marriage licenses were issued this year than last. The men evidently want to catch ’em before they get any more independent. * The statistics of the Chicago Domestic Relations Court show that mothers-in-law are not responsible for more than one per cent. of family troubles. These much- abused ladies could have told that without any statistics. Set it down as an axiom that a good son-in-law will have the good mother- in-law that he deserves, and vice versa. ¢ Illinois is to have an assistant Attorney General. Of course there is no connection between voting and holding office but women never seem to get the offices in any State where they can’t vote. t Herald says of Congress- woman Rankin: “If she is only an average club-woman she has been taught to say more in five minutes than the ordinary political orator can get out of his system in an hour.” Yes, and she will probably know when she is through and quit, which cannot be said of the average orator of the male sex 2 The New York State Education Board has made a spelling test in 10,000 schools and over 7o per cent. of the winners were girls. The result would have been the same in any other branch of study but when they are all 21 only the boys know enough to vote. The Chica 2 A woman won the world’s championship for typewriting and now she will go right in somewhere and take a job that belongs to a man. city offinals, in the thirty-six others they + His first visit to the States, the “distinguished guest expressed no little delight at the excellence of our Virginia cigarettes . There is something appealing even about their prim, old-fashioned package. It hints of the honest thoroughness with which every Richmond Straight Cut Cigarette has been made for over two generations. Containing only the finest of “bright,” golden Virginia tobacco, they have a tefinement and delicacy of flavor not to be found in any other ee ha —— —__ = “RICHMOND STRAIGHT CUT) Ne ee Cigarettes—ran OR CORK TIP—15 Cents Also in attractive tins, 50 for 40 cents: 100 for 75 cents, Sent prepaid if your dealer cannot supply you. Vine, Allert Grinberg mminiinas ma cra PREFERRED BY GENTLEMEN NOW AS THEN If you can draw a little and want to draw more, you have an Gyre) tolearn at small expense to yoursel EUGENE ZIMMERMAN has an es- tablished reputation as a cartoonist. He has put some of the tricks of his trade into a book, “Cartoons and Caricatures” bound neatly in 34 morocco, which will be sent to you prepaid on receipt of $1.00. ZIM BOOK 1-20 Brunswick Building 225 FIFTH AVE., New York