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"Be it ever so homely."

Tags: Absent wife, Adultized child, AGE, American, ANTI-SUFFRAGE, Chair, Couple, Doll, EMOTIONS, Fatherhood, HOUSEHOLD, Husband, Lounge room, MARRIAGE, PARENTHOOD, PRIVATE, Suffering man

"Is your baby fond of you?"

"IS YOUR BABY FOND OF YOU?"
"FOND? FATHER! WHY HE GOES TO
SLEEP ALL DAY ON PURPOSE TO
KEEP ME COMPANY ALL NIGHT!"

HOME
SWEET
HOME

MAY YOUR
TROUBLES
ALL BE
LITTLE ONES

Tags: Absent mother, Absent wife, ANTI-SUFFRAGE, Appealing, APPEARANCE, British, Childcare, Drawing, Family, FASHION, Fashionable, Father, Grandfather, HOUSEHOLD, Housework, Husband, Infant, Man, PARENTHOOD, PRIVATE

[Image: A husband with a sad expression is stilling in a chair in his robe, pajamas and slippers. A young girl with a blue bow in her hair is spilling milk out of a bowl and onto his right foot. A young boy is pulling hard on the belt of his robe…

Tags: Absent mother, Absent wife, ACTIVITIES, ANTI-SUFFRAGE, Appealing, APPEARANCE, Bewildered man, Bow, Boy, British, Childcare, Children, CLASS, EMOTIONS, FASHION, Fashionable, Fatherhood, Girl, Hat, HOUSEHOLD, Husband, Man, MARRIAGE, Middle class, Motherhood, PARENTHOOD, PRIVATE, PROFESSION, Shoes, Smoking, Toy, Unappealing, Wife, Woman, Working class

"Just by way of a Change": 5

[Image: A fashionably dressed woman is outside her door attempting to put her house key in the lock. Her husband is leaning out of a window above the door in his pajamas. He has a watch in his hands that reads 5:00. There are two milk cans on the…

Tags: Absent wife, ACTIVITIES, Angry man, ANTI-SUFFRAGE, Appealing, APPEARANCE, British, CLASS, Clock, FASHION, Fashionable, Feminized man, FOOD, GENDER/SEXUALITY, Hat, HOUSEHOLD, Husband, Inequality, Key, Man, MARRIAGE, Middle class, Milk, PUBLIC, Rights, Shoes, Wife, without children, Woman, Working class, Working man

De Suffre-Jet

DE SUFFRE-JET

MISTER
JONSING
WASHING DUN

[Image: A black man with caricatured features washes clothes in a tub. A black woman with caricatured features stands in front of him putting on gloves.]

Everybody Works But Father

EVERYBODY WORKS BUT FATHER.

Tags: Absent mother, Absent wife, ANTI-SUFFRAGE, Boy, British, bucket, Childcare, Children, Father, Fatherhood, Girl, HOUSEHOLD, Housework, Husband, Infant, Man, MARRIAGE, PRIVATE

HOLDING HIS OWN – MA'S AT THE MOVIES

I am saddest when I sing

Tags: Absent wife, American, ANTI-SUFFRAGE, EMOTIONS, Feminized man, Garden, GENDER/SEXUALITY, HOUSEHOLD, Housework, Husband, MARRIAGE, PRIVATE, Queer, Sad man, Suffering, Washing

I've several little things to attend to

I'VE SEVERAL LITTLE THINGS TO ATTEND TO.

Tags: Absent wife, ANTI-SUFFRAGE, Bewildered man, Boy, British, bucket, Childcare, Children, EMOTIONS, Fatherhood, Feminized man, GENDER/SEXUALITY, Girl, HOUSEHOLD, Housework, Husband, Infant, Lounge room, MARRIAGE, PRIVATE, Wife

Is your wife a suffragette

[Image: Anti-suffrage comic card depicts a man sitting in a yard doing the laundry, printed inscription front: ' Is your wife a Suffragette.', printed inscription reverse: 'Eustace Watkins'.]

Tags: Absent wife, ANTI-SUFFRAGE, Apron, British, bucket, CLASS, HOUSEHOLD, Housework, Husband, Man, MARRIAGE, Middle class, Sheets, Washing

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