Judge, 1921-01-15 · page 8 of 32
Judge — January 15, 1921 — page 8: what you’re looking at
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# Analysis of This Judge Magazine Page This page contains two satirical pieces about courtship and relationships, reflecting early 20th-century gender anxieties. **"The Listening Vampire"** by Katherine Negley identifies various types of women as predatory seductresses—the kitchen-skilled woman, the scantily-dressed attention-seeker, the baby-obsessed gusher. But the most dangerous is "the listener": a woman who flatters men by appearing rapt with attention and admiration, only to trap them into marriage. Once wed, the man "listens forever and forever"—implying marital servitude. **"Ballade of H₂O and a Dash of Cow"** is a humorous poem lamenting Prohibition. The speaker cannot get alcoholic drinks—only seltzer with a milk ("cow") chaser. References to "Old Tom" (whiskey), Omar (Khayyam's wine poetry), and "Bacchie" (Bacchus) emphasize lost pleasures under alcohol restrictions. The cartoon caption suggests the woman keeps her former husbands' portraits to remind her current husband not to smoke—implying she eliminates inconvenient husbands. Both pieces use humor to express period anxieties about female power and modern restraints (Prohibition, matrimony).
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