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# "After the Musicale" — Judge Magazine Satire This page satirizes pretentious cultural aspirations and social climbing among the wealthy. The main cartoon depicts a woman, Dolores McQuirn, visibly upset after hosting a musical performance where a professor played for her guests. The accompanying poem mocks her distress: despite her carefully cultivated refined taste (the "elegant dress" purchased from Stern, a luxury store), something has gone wrong. The satire targets the gap between *performing* sophistication and actual contentment—she's invested in the trappings of high society but remains fundamentally unhappy. The text below offers crude humor about trivial domestic concerns ("beauty is but skin deep"), underlining Judge's skeptical view of fashionable New York society's hollow pretensions. The satire suggests that wealth and cultural affectation cannot guarantee happiness or authenticity.
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crushed Democracy will endeavor to perauade | one of their exer local in become the Their Prince-pal | avorite with the Celtic | hen the energetic mayor of | wilagration period, being a mod- | est man and very American, cannot put Gast. | ors te be rer standare rer. man is no lo Americans. the great « of nt Demoerac: persmatsi But perhaps they dla Palm-er man in the present in- cumbent. Lee he knows how to keep his constituents q hte suit the bellig reign ite cool, Mk, Jones, the too- from the land of groves, ntly return visit to Tre- land, the and of his nativity. It r that the distinguished te with the lowly ~ for) «his visit to Dublin and vicinity. f does not ap Senator was very anxious Lo again assoe portion of his former compatr fins ing at the Lord Mayor's banquet in prefer- boiled the philanthropic turning to his primitive fare of and salt. Although | of much | nurphi¢ Senator heard painful distress and want an try of his native heath, it not appear that he i any prolific amount of American shekels among his former friends. doe ‘Tue unreasonable and ever fault-finding taxpayers of New York reatly exercised over the exte ion in the Comp- troller’s office, which now promises to assume ve defale proportions and political distinction surpass- l-ring steal. But what » of making such a fuss over a sim- ple steal of half a million or so of public How could ‘Tammany live, and | what would become of Coney Island and the faro banks if the to book for every trifling irregul: ed only by the Twe is the u money? “boys” are to be brought ity? How can city officials be expected to dress in Bow- tumes and wear diamond head- | ts, on their petty salaries? Isa man sup- posed to serve his country or his city for Perish the thought! Give the aterprising American patriot— ersuasion—a eh: ** Carroll, ery dude e nothing? honest and of Celtic brothers—earol, carol joyfully! ne MERCI BIEN. Tur Jepee, a weekly humorous, illustra- publication, by THe Jupae Publishing Company, New York, is now in its fourth | r, and with ¢ number apparently rows better. Colored illustrations are a fe ture with THe June nd this, coupled | with its tjmely take-offs and humorous ticles, editorial and ing it wide cirenlation. pis 8 a i fi nd is well worth the price | I'who wish a publication replete with comical illustrations and cheerful reading.— | Omaha Republican. | the great illustrated New wspaper, is meeting with un- paralleled stecess, Ite engravings and able editorials have made ond to no illustra- | E JUDGE | fi} f i CR OTHE fessor, your playing was so divine, so touching, 80 sieet— Mus. Parv ih J} (HHUA MUSICALE. espectally that sympathy in Gominor. (Imagine the Professor's feelings.) Dolores McQuirn. Sie; stood in the bright light that streamed from the hall, And she gazed in th 1 hung on the wall From the frown on her face, one could easily learn, Phat something was up with Dolores MeQuirn. (she had twe and wilful, and weird The right dook, expecially, was clenched quite furn (That word I invented to rhyme with MeQuirn.) mirror tiful nostrils were curved in disdain, chrows diluted in pain, While the nt dre Stern, Heaved o she had purchased from the chest of Dolores MeQuirmn! Tam sorry But of that I'm not sun But ‘twas wror * Drat; been“ Durn!” MeQuirn very like may h to use either, Dol Ob! what was the matter—ob! what was the plight Of that sweet cultured maiden that fine August night? With impatience to know the dire cause T did burn— Oh! what had so broke up Dolores MeQuirn? Had bad ne Cone s been sent her from over the sea, r true love, Rinaldo McGee? Id he stay in New Jersey and never return, To gladden the heart of Dolores McQuirn? Or was her proud father upon his last legs? (He in Washington Market sold butter and ¢ Had his hen-fruit o'er ripened—did that stern use the ines to form round the mouth of Dolores MeQuirn? was, the night was quite sultry, and so The kinks of her hair, alas! failed to stay“ kira” On the beautiful brow of Dolores McQuirn! WM, OILL. aker exhorted the tele- r the Juggernaut from Jobe by main strength.” Vhat is the dug- s it got to A PAROXYSMAL spe graph strikers to ph bi Al. fabric that tears readily? what is to be done with it? ponder. 0, is it made of And, when torn, Pause and The Greensburg Press informs us that “The Millwood Coal and Cok: mpany had avery valuable mule killed The question arises, What killed the mule? The Trish In- vincibles much exercised over the matter, arguing that if they could obtain possession of this new deadly weapon they could exter- minate the British in short order, Tue Winnipeg (Man.) Siftings comm upon the boom which Tier JupGE endea ed to give to the new variety of beer which comes solid and be chewed. — Siftings marks that what is wanted i n be chewed, but beer that ed. But that’s not the kind we choos Freirs meet for repentanc and watermelons. —THE Juba rience is that they meet to time in a man’s interior ¢ z A new v green apples Our expe- ea high old *, as it were. Why, done lady to a less cultured one. Well, he usen’t ter have, when he be- longed to the Good Templars; but ever since he’s jincd that up-town club, his head’s been that way.” aelassic head your husband Beavty is but skin deep, at the druggists’ varying prices per bottle. comicbooks.com