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# "The Judge" Page Analysis This page from *Judge* magazine satirizes Muttonville's "Felix Finnegan Coterie"—a working-class social group whose members organize a formal ball. The satire targets the pretensions of this lower-class cohort (laborers, cart-drivers, street vendors) attempting to mimic upper-class social conventions. The cartoon illustration (top right) shows an adult and child in tattered clothes, captioned "A TIMELY WARNING," mocking the gap between Muttonville residents' actual circumstances and their social aspirations. The detailed prose section ridicules the ball's attendees: women wearing identical "soapy" bangs and three-inch heels, men in garish formal wear. The satire emphasizes their uniformity and affected mannerisms ("refined ejaculations"), suggesting they're merely aping respectability without understanding it. The poem at top mocks prize fighters Jem Mace and Herbert Slade, contrasting them with allegedly superior boxers. Overall, the page expresses *Judge*'s class-based mockery of working-class social climbing and aspiration.
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THE JUDGE. To Jem Mace and Herbert A. Slade, GREETING. On, Jemmy Mac With museled From fon And Herbert state, xo mighty made, Both here to tight f and th the bri gh shores su bonny Now s You're Of grief and Those tists of Sul Will break the skulls Cf pupil and of master! Don't have in mind The * Half Browl ” kind Who knocked out Charley Fo And think that you Will co The pugilistic sok From Bosting town; For he will dow You both in the *squ Anil use your stakes To live on cakes. Shamprrgwary, a3 iuer too, red circle, n tarkle So by-bye, now Go make your how To Elliott bold, Tom Allen true, P. Ryan, too, B. Edwanis, © light-wei And when you're done. Not Leave Fox and othe To mourn aud amart, And th rt,¢ A brace of busted bruisers Jury « have won, losers ley Je abys. © Lanalt positively aut be ing the country way i le The Felix Finnegan Coterie THE BALL. ix Finnegan Coterie iinelu aville residenta whose daily avocal driving, fish and vegetable costermo youths who pressed onwanl the tintinnabulating rag cart, and many others whose avoeations, judging from superticlal observation, consisted of ps street corner which has for a backssrv ye saloon.” How the lat matter of conjecture. 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Coterie was one of the currences of Muttonville; to the female be casion fraught w was to the heart of th in straight soapy bangs, and who greet you with such refined! ejaculations as, “Ab, my size tence is interloped with, ** Ob so rt this was t least it nd whose every aud!” | costame was rie, would, on of January, give a ers’ Hall ball ean ple to ace Jescribe the ¢ tively easy, to which the F. F. Ci seem to have an unwritten regard to their mo which + deseriptic The © Gra Felix Finne politician. 1 hy the was uniformity will 1 Mari an, th He w. frazile two: nthe M the slippers, red. stockin a three-inch-from-the-groun prove. lel hy pair of low banga,and where her eyebrows beat ated question the wearer alone awer. It might be here that in fem ideas on the nd the bangs termi was a kd an well to. state the matter of h had. the the only dif. ference be color of the hair, whi to a soapy vad racefal couple were fol jades Kerrigan, a pair il pants, loader necktie, and th a rank ¢ cefal, stub of rin hi freckled-faced red mouth. Ie Desdetona escorted Devine Ww slippers, the came Thrasybulus O'Con shining light in the PL FL € red the State valuatile different oceasions—breaking rock at all that Rowery any day will +t 1 the regulat Muttonville etiquette require A walk on the fac miles, We escort McFudd, who wore the od cardinal r fair red-halred Venus 1 poeta They were fi wore ulornments nwel by Hero: 1 blue flannel shirt peeessary suspender. He balanced the thte Duffy, the geranium of Muttonville Aionzo MeGuhey, in a blu in bis mouth and the elubef his arm Of eon above dom MeCann and a + Aphru Next came hecked jumper, with a butt ed Latona Flanniga of the gents F. F Grand Marely to notify then ed give an averaze samp of th re they wore out th tinued the until the proprie Vel bat the beams t Then the dane another all ean desist wr-planks and leave nothing danee on, commenced Like Every other waltz wits waltz, everything else the BP. € a being of Tery the floor mana chore, cont F. the mates rust grabbed their female partners, yank middle of the room and fon one side th arms were rigidly extended at an ansleof sixty « the other hand they gripped the female ar waist, whilst she, with the elateh of a had her other hand filed with th 1 male attempted to dance withou ats on, Wat tly below That there would Ie a sl in plain words, a fight, befe tall, was for i were several Ww puyilistic remarks, they Before midnight there cht, but fhe fisht had not yet occur. When Lysander Du Lurtine Me should reply De Vere O'Bri was flew at the timid Lurline’s hair, for atime, but the best of fr fl pnally differ; and with the exception of a few bruised heads, and a few pounds of loose female hair without claim- ne conclusion. n squirted a quit of tobacco in ally’s eyes, it was natural Dugan's best sil were lively but the | A TIMELY WARNIN ere yer goin’! 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