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# Content Analysis: Judge Magazine Page This page contains three satirical pieces targeting prominent American figures and social issues. **"The Two Leading Citizens of Massachusetts"** mocks Harvard University's refusal to grant an honorary degree to Governor Benjamin Butler while conferring one on General John Sullivan. The satire argues Harvard's decision reflects partisan prejudice rather than merit, suggesting Butler—despite his flaws—is the more accomplished figure. The piece criticizes academic institutions for mixing politics with honors. **"Our Overworked President"** lampoons President Chester Arthur's burdensome duties. The satire humorously catalogs his exhausting responsibilities and absurd constraints—including needing to transport his French cook everywhere to avoid digestive upset. It mocks the impossible standards placed on presidents, suggesting he must be both perfectly "right" and simultaneously effective. **"The Great Unwashed"** addresses New York's poor sanitation despite the city's self-proclaimed godliness. The piece ironically notes that while cleanliness is virtuous, the city remains filthy—soap is expensive, cotton is precious, and disease spreads unchecked. It critiques the gap between moral pretense and actual living conditions for working-class New Yorkers.
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THE JUDGE. 324, 326 and 328 Pearl St., (Franklin Square.) PERISHED ONCE A WEEK TERMS TO SUBSCRIBERS THe SU DER Pest ECROPEAN AGENTS Toe terenseriset. Sewe ( THE TWO LEADING CITIZENS QF MASSACHUSETTS. Hanvanny University has confer the honorary de I Butler—a d. been bestowed on the ¢ tts General inction whieh has ruorof \ ime hu We last instance of its being with- almost f time morial. ‘e the held oecur y the cig! ed duri nth ecen- his course of conduct does not scem ly to the credit of the Ge Butler will survive the infliction of havin his und very h Joubt nor name without aflixings But the ea thereunte what He he bette denied an honor almost ¢ ? IVETDOF, as LOVErNOrS 0 Prejudice and party feeli in politi than most, are bad ene ; » they naturally and freely” hill, When they intr classic shades of an academy of k are distinctly out of place But injustice. from a dung. the ning they stay; we may be doing Harvard an Its refusal onfer the deg: on the Governor y not ¥ feeling after all, derlying prejudice and par may find another u motive sachusetts has two great citizens, reserving the distinction for th lof the two, and J fellow Sullivan is doubtless more renown yhn Long. a greater man “The faney” areely question the fact than would Senjamin Butler. men would back him to knock the Governor out in half hind him, wind, with one doubt degree fe hand tied be- Harvard is reservi John 1 when that distinguished gen- (if he wdmirers ean exhaust its honorary Sullivan, man appends LL.D. to his signature ean write his themselves in conjecture as to whether the ied not te | THE JUDGE. Lightning-Larrupping may be right after all OUR OVERWROKED PRESIDENT. san Leather-Lunged Desperado or Demon, — Harvard No doubt a must be a eat tine thing to United States with anda White How the ple ever realize the many people think it » President of the lary of fifty thousand to spend it in, but d panifold draw- backs of the position, and the intense and umbent of brain work wl Vi President Arthur, for at fellow, he is worn toa shi the of his His very holidays are poisoned by wearing amount to be gone through by the envi of this office pl administer duties station, the ernst spend them to the | s uncertainty as to where he can t advantage, and then, when he travels, look at the responsibility OF course, he carry his Freneh cook with him, for it would Bre and trouble entailed. must never do to hi t laid up with brought a sudden and His cole an indispensable so deftly can draw off th t th and it is well known that from the days of Kin by in cookery ored body: servant is adjunct, f Canute down te the nt, Water has bee but will wet b st socialistic impartiality. the gentle craft, he natlia— pre ent with hen, being a ary o| mu fishin rather e omiust have it carried for him, and just consider In addition toall this he has the common trouble of living falls to the lot of ordi- nary Let those who envy President try to throw a fly on a stream eateh the hook in the will himself, President ay of attendants that entails such mortals. our vl and then they © how it is themselves, Tin Jeper, had far rather be right than be in the nature of things it seems impossible to be buth at once. THE GREAT UNWASHED. CLEANLINESS old to godlin proverb, certainly not rvation of an any rate thi 7 an eminently and clean thing. Now we, in New rk. though an eminently godly. people. section of unwas seap is dear and ( ve is precions, and, one way another, our unwashed remain uns and the worl on, and disease is bred and spread cleanly suffer with summer there will be Torts made to reduce the army of work be- of or the abl in ten days work mation in the average tramp that his us would be dirty ag endles Still, in comes sort a bat weeks ten would such a intimates would not Know him—you would have probably became: less Th he maxin close in the pro public baths, if they can deer um of dirt will goa long way towards insuring a minimum ‘They will be heated will introduce to cold water the They many who have at blessing durin, term—these public baths hitherto only regarded that element as ad- float ships in and healthful They eowh: and dutve ous to They will nine nds should have reereation to every great city i a 1 in abundance, ane there should be ne stint in should The the be within evervene’s eh daths will do more towar ings city than all the col: will spire for they Jeanse the people in ity ar some of them with a perl THE SUMMER EXODUS. Tite ontgoing steamers are crowded summer service of trains is fully « to the varie in the full tic now it is the fashion ma ve places, Unele Sam is his annual holiday. dust large portion of the to deery the attracti reign coun- and to point out how many American nd draw of win other of resort surpass Switzerland comparisons between our interest and those of Enrope. ways to endeavor to make the summer tour: nal—in taking his ul. To all of in the emphatic Into the discussion ist T that he is doin: creditable—almost erin well-earned vacation which Tue Jeper repli monysyllable “ Bosh! of the question we Enrope tay have fewer at attempt to enter, attractions in the ural scenery to offer. What then? The whole thing way of na Is not th is a matter of tast why, free cou und if our people like to ‘They are for their t them: go, nd have worked hard » to Europe industrious holiday Fe it as they see fit, that they prefer te ndness” It is rational to suppose broad, or they would nyhow, they have presumably made up their mind on the point, stance in making it up for them— emphatically their own business. There will be plenty of people left to crowd our natiy T some of them ine ven—and the keepers of summer hotels will pake a big profit, and the keepers of summer boardit will make a little profit, and the manipulators of excursions will make the best profit of all. And to everyone—the lounger of the watering place, the excursionist. on the ocean steamer, the pater familias who takes his litt sme quiet, healthful re- tr : cordially wishes a ood nd require no one’s a and it ris—to crow comicbooks.com