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To the Girls' Christmas Tree

PRESENTS FOR BOYS

We have let you see this nice tree,
So go home quietly the boys may
Want all the presents but perhaps
There may be something left for you.

Tags: Children, Christmas, Christmas tree, Daughters, Disappointment, Drawing, EMOTIONS, Family, Fatherhood, Girl, HOLIDAYS, Inequality, Man, Motherhood, PARENTHOOD, PLANT, Presents, PRIVATE, PRO-SUFFRAGE, Sons, Tree, Upper class, Woman

Connecticut: Votes for Women

[Image: A suffragette, Mrs. M. Toscan Bennett, and her two daughters stand in front of a Votes for Women banner in Connecticut.]; 9x14cm; print.

Tags: "Votes for Women" banner, Absent father, AGE, AMBIGUOUS-SUFFRAGE, American, Children, Connecticut, Daughters, Fatherhood, Girl, Motherhood, PARENTHOOD, Photograph, PRO-SUFFRAGE, Rally, SUFFRAGE ADVERTISING, Suffragette, Younger woman

ARE YOU . . . . . MR. HENPECKO?

ARE YOU . . . . .
MR. HENPECKO?

VOTES FOR HENS

Tags: "Votes for Women" sash, ACTIVITIES, AGE, American, Angry, Angry man, ANIMAL, ANTI-SUFFRAGE, Chick, Chicken, Cockerel, Cradle, EMOTIONS, Fatherhood, HOUSEHOLD, Husband, Infant, Motherhood, NON-HUMAN, PARENTHOOD, PRIVATE, Smoking, SUFFRAGE ADVERTISING, VIOLENCE, Wife

Don't Monkey with "Woman's rights"

Don't Monkey with
"Woman's rights"

or you might find yourself
doing something like this.

Tags: AGE, American, ANIMAL, ANTI-SUFFRAGE, Bewildered man, Cradle, Crying, Crying infant, EMOTIONS, Fatherhood, HOUSEHOLD, Infant, Monkey, NON-HUMAN, PARENTHOOD, PRIVATE

IT'S A BOY

HELLO POP

Tags: AGE, American, ANIMAL, ANTI-SUFFRAGE, Chick, Cockerel, FASHION, Fatherhood, Infant, NON-HUMAN, Owl, PARENTHOOD, PUBLIC

"THE HOUSE" that man built: Ladies of Fame

This is "THE HOUSE" that man built,
And these are a few of the Ladies of Fame
Anxious to write M.P. after their name,
With each sex on a par, why put up the bar?
For M.P. means either Mama or Papa,
Quoth the sweet Suffragette we're entitled to…

Tags: "Votes for Women" banner, ANTI-SUFFRAGE, Big Ben, British, FASHION, Fatherhood, Feminine woman, GENDER/SEXUALITY, HOUSEHOLD, London, Masculinized woman, Motherhood, PARENTHOOD, PLACE, Politician, PROFESSION, PUBLIC, SUFFRAGE ADVERTISING

"Just by way of a Change": 2

[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

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