We need more inclusion during election years
I am looking at a copy of a Sunday cartoon that appeared in the St. Louis Post-Dispatch of Jan. 14, 1900. It is called “Woman’s Craze for Animal Pets Versus Babies—what we might expect in the 20th Century.”
There are a series of cartoons of stylishly dressed ladies of that bygone and hypothetically happy era walking and cuddling various pets in various years; in 1901, it is a monkey, 1902, a leopard, 1903, a hippopotamus with a blue ribbon tied around its tail, 1904, an alligator on a leash, and 1905, a cuddly giraffe. And finally, there comes “The rarest and most curious pet of 1920—a real baby!”
Well, I’m not here to accuse JD Vance of not being original in his warnings of the evils of “childless cat ladies,” but it does seem that this issue has been around long enough to have been beaten to death by now.
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