Judge — March 18, 1882 — page 4: what you’re looking at

What you’re looking at

# "Beautiful Spring—in the City" and "Getting Hunk" The left cartoon depicts an urban scene titled "Beautiful Spring—in the City," showing a disheveled figure amid trash and urban decay. The accompanying poem by A.T. Worden satirizes spring's romantic associations by contrasting them with gritty city reality—muddy streets, prostitutes, and squalor replacing pastoral imagery. The right section, "Getting Hunk," presents a lengthy anecdote from an Institution of Inebriation about men gambling and drinking at clubs like the Lotus. The narrator describes losing substantial sums ($20,000) in poker games while intoxicated, later "getting hunk" (regaining financial standing) through successful gambling. The piece satirizes wealthy men's careless excess, addiction to gambling, and casual attitude toward enormous financial losses.