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THE WORKER'S HUSBAND

Lady Canvasser. Have you a vote, Mr. Brown?
Loafer. ‘Course I got a vote, and shall have so
long as my wife takes in washing.

Tags: Appealing, APPEARANCE, Artist's Suffrage League, British, Canvasser, CLASS, FASHION, Fashionable, Hat, Husband, Labor, Laundry, Middle class, Middle-class woman, PRO-SUFFRAGE, PROFESSION, PUBLIC, Wife, Working class, Working man

LIFE'S LITTLE TRAGEDIES. - IN THREE ACTS. -

[Image: A narrative in three panels. In the first, a fashionable woman is courted by a nervous, well-dressed man; the caption reads "Fairy." In the second, the same couple, now married, walks arm in arm as they begin their domestic life. The husband…

Tags: Absent mother, Absent wife, American, ANTI-SUFFRAGE, Bewildered man, Child, Childcare, COURTSHIP, Fashionable, Fatherhood, HOUSEHOLD, Husband, MARRIAGE, Motherhood, PARENTHOOD, PRIVATE, PUBLIC, Romance, SUFFRAGE ADVERTISING, Umbrella, Wife

The Suffragette Hubby

THE SUFFRAGETTE
HUBBY.

Hush my little baby –
Papa's little pet!
Ma's out lookin' for her
rights –
Ma's a Suffragette.

[Image: A husband holds his crying baby.]; 9x14 cm; print.

Tags: Absent mother, Absent wife, AGE, American, ANTI-SUFFRAGE, Child, Clock, Crying, Crying infant, EMOTIONS, Family, Father, Fatherhood, Fatigued man, Gender Roles, HOUSEHOLD, Husband, Infant, Man, MARRIAGE, Mother, Older man, PARENTHOOD, PRIVATE, Sad, Sad man, Suffragette, Wife

Your Valentine

“If you will only marry me you can have all woman’s rights
Such as staying up on evenings when I’m out late at nights
And should such things not satisfy the longings of your soul
You can wash up all the dishes and carry all the coal
As a really…

Tags: ANTI-SUFFRAGE, Coal, HOLIDAYS, HOUSEHOLD, Housework, Husband, MARRIAGE, Masculinized woman, Poem, Quotation, Rights, Silhouette, Valentine, Wife, Woman, Women's rights

The Suffragette Not at Home

Tags: Absent mother, Absent wife, Angry man, ANIMAL, ANTI-SUFFRAGE, Cat, Drawing, EMOTIONS, Family, FOOD, HOUSEHOLD, Housework, Husband, Infant, Kitchen, Man, Middle class, Motherhood, NON-HUMAN, note, Overwhelmed father, Suffragette, Wife, Woman, Working class

His Latest Purchase

A sweeping change of the future.

Tags: ACTIVITIES, Angry man, ANTI-SUFFRAGE, APPEARANCE, Broom, Chair, Domineering woman, Drawing, HOUSEHOLD, Housework, Husband, Lounge room, MARRIAGE, Reading, reversed gender role, Sweeping, Unappealing, Wife

A Suffragette.

Tags: Angry woman, ANTI-SUFFRAGE, APPEARANCE, Broken Dishes, Broken picture, EMOTIONS, Hiding, HOUSEHOLD, Husband, knife, MARRIAGE, Spade, Table, Threat of Violence, Unappealing, VIOLENCE, Wife, without children

I can heartily recommend my wife

THE SUFFRAGETTE.

I can heartily recommend
my wife for the office of
SECRETARYESS of WAR She's a born scrapper
Yours, Ben A. Bused.

GOD BLESS
OUR HOME

Secretaryess of Treasury

THE SUFFRAGETTE
SECRETARYESS
OF TREASURY.

"HONEST CRAFT."

Tags: ACTIVITIES, American, ANTI-SUFFRAGE, APPEARANCE, Bedroom, Drawing, FASHION, female politician, Finance, HOUSEHOLD, Husband, Man, MARRIAGE, Money, Politics, PRIVATE, Suffragette, SYMBOLISM, Theft, Unappealing, Unfashionable, Wife, Woman

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