Judge, 1917-02-17 · page 20 of 28
Judge — February 17, 1917 — page 20: what you’re looking at
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This page is primarily **advertising**, not political satire. However, the main article—"Why They Worry"—contains satirical commentary on women's suffrage and Italian immigration. The piece mocks both Italian husbands' anxiety about their wives' "modernization" and social workers' efforts to "uplift" immigrant women. It portrays an Italian woman who prefers her husband's beatings to American legal protections, dismissing women's rights as irrelevant to her life. The satire's point appears to be **anti-suffrage**: it suggests that voting rights are meaningless to working-class immigrant women who operate under entirely different cultural values. The final section jokingly traces divorce back to Adam, further trivializing women's rights concerns. The advertisements surrounding this content—for hotels, golf balls, hair treatments—are typical Judge magazine filler with no political message.
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For Restoring Color and Beauty te Gray, and Faded Hair, Se, and $1.00 at drugeiste, not make up’themselves. They learned it from the biologist. And so it is that when the other day the press announced that the first town in France to be reconstructed was being rebuilt under the eye of one American woman and with the money of another, the suffragists just had to get out a special bul- letin and ask the public to note once again that the female of the species was less deadly thanthe male, and that true pre- paredness to protect the country from war lay in voting for votes for women. Why They Worry F IT is an Italian who has sent to Italy for his wife, he worries for fear she will come off the boat with her head in a shawl, and to avoid that humiliation he oftentimes meets her hat box in hand and deshawls her and behats her even before he embraces her. If it is a social worker she often ponders long how to lift the Italian wife spiritually as well as physically from under the heel of her husband. From him she will get opposi- tion even with the knife. For like most men he likes a wife with her hat up-to-date and her ideas out-of-date. A little Italian woman whose face was covered with marital scratches when asked if,she were not afraid to meet her husband answered, “Na, I wanta meeta him. I hope he beat-a me in the street. He beat-a me anyhow. Then the judge he could-a have the wit-i-ness he so want.” It was useless to tell her that in America a wife could. put on her hat and walk out if she wanted to; that she did not have to prove to a court that her life was in danger. She only an- swered, “Marryin no verranice. You know what you got but you no know what you get.” That night the social worker dreamed a dream. It was election time and in the Ital- ian district the political workers were just busy teaching the rights and duties of ¢ zenship to Italian wives as to Italian hus- bands. Proudly they rode to the polling places in glass hacks and on their faces she saw a new intelligence and in their mien a new chestiness that boded ill for any husband whose domestic habits harked back to Sicil- ian days. He might count on being con- fronted not by an unprotesting slave, but by a woman who knew not only what she had “got,” but what he would “get.” Adam, Not Votes for Women, Responsible T WAS at a meeting of the entomologists —though the connection is hard to see —that a paper was read which vouched for Adam as the original divorced man. If the Ludlow Street Alimony Club erect a family tree they will have to perch Adam in the topmost branch. 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