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This page contains mostly **advertisements and filler content**, not political cartoons requiring interpretation. The left side features a **Clyde-Mallory steamship advertisement** promoting travel to Southern ports, contextually relevant to WWI (note references to military "cantonments"). The bottom advertises an art print from Judge's print department. The right side contains **"The Modern Woman: Suffrage Facts and Fancies"** by Anna Cadogan Ertz—a satirical column mocking women's suffrage. The humor relies on traditional gender stereotypes: women voters terrify political managers because they're "unpredictable," and the author sarcastically describes women's decades-long struggle for Rhode Island presidential suffrage as effortless. The tone is dismissive and patronizing toward women's political participation, typical of anti-suffrage sentiment in this era. The column appears designed to entertain male readers through ridicule of feminist ambitions.

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4 VISIT the B Boys in CAMP A rousing welcome awaits ; you and besides the inspir- Direct Steamers ing interest of camp life From New York there’s a lot of fun when the men are off duty. Clyde-Mallory steamships provide a direct and economical route to Charleston, S.C., Jacksonville, Fla., Key West, Fla., and Galveston, Texas Direct rail connections at low one way and round trip rates for canton- ments at Chattanooga, Tennessee; Spartanburg, Columbia, Greenyille and Port Royal, South Carolina; Atlanta, Augusta, Macon, Georgia; Montgomery and Anniston, Alabama; paren Pensacola, Key Wes}, Florida; Hattiesburg. Mississippi; New Orleans, ouisiana; Galveston, Houston, Fort Worth, Waco, San Antonio, Brownsville, Laredo, Eagle Pasa, El Paso Texas; Deming, New Mexico. CIRCLE TOURS, going by steamer and returning by rail, or vice versa, with liberal stop over privileges et principal cities en route. Write for de- scriptive literature. CLYDE-MALLORY LINES phat W. Pye, Passenger Traffic Mer. ier 36, North River New York DISTRICT PASSENGER OFFICES: BOSTON: PHILADELPHIA: NEW YORK: 192 Washington Street 701 Chestnut Street 489 Fifth Avenue, at 42nd Street — aaa ‘THIS amusing picture in full colors, 9x12, mounted on a heavy mat, ready for the frame, will be sent postpaid for twenty-five cents Judge Art Print Department 225 Fifth Avenue New York City JUDGE THE MODERN WOMAN Suffrage Facts and Fancies By ANNA CADOGAN ETZ Takes the Joy out of Politics NE DAY a woman by mistake en. O tered the barroom instead of the lobby of a hotel. She herself thought it rather interesting. but on the faces of the habitués was nothing but consternation ‘They rose as one and showed her the way out. The horror on their faces was akin to pity. They grieved for ker. So it is with politics. ‘The mere idea of woman getting in fills the habitués with horror, but if it is a horror akin to pity she alone is not the residuary legatee. In discussing the suffrage situation in Chicago a noted social worker declared that if women got to the polls they did it on their own two feet. The hacks were not for them. No political fine-toothed comb ferreted them out of their lodgings anc swept them to the polling places.) woman voter saw ghtdness on the face the political manager when she passed him near election day dness at the sight of her! 1 should say not! The fact is that at the sight of her he is plumb seared to death. for what she will do when she gets to the polling place he never can tell, and it is this perpet ual guessing that takes the joy out of politics for him Things Are Not What They Seem Afctt RAGE victory looks so casy when it: happens—that the long, lean years that went before seem to disapp Take the winning of Presidential Suffrage in Rhode Island. for instance. Rhode Island was the birthnlace of the Presidential Suffrage Idea. but it took a quarter of a century for the idea to blossom and fruit And during these long years, kicking the Presidential Suffrage bill back and forth from house to house was the ere constant athletic sport of the legislature Did the women plead with the assemt!y to pass the bill? The assembly gra did so knowing full well that the senate would defeat it. Did the women plead with the senate to pass the bill? The senators also vowed that ‘Anything to please the ladies was their lifelong habit.” and they duly passed the bill. knowing that the assembly would defeat it And so wagged the world away in Rhode Island until the year torz, when Rip Van Winkle-liic the legislators rubbed their eyes and confronted a changed world, in which they saw their game as no longer safe. Then, frankly admitting that for a public man to with votes for women was just like playing with fire. or monkey: ing with the buzz-saw, they duly writ the law on the statute books and to the world t seemed an easy victory. But ask faithful women who had given almcst half-the years that the insurance tables say expect to live and wo Anything but Uneos ved ir Sergea eat by Recrui comicbooks.com