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# Analysis: Judge Magazine Page - Thanksgiving and Political Commentary This page from Judge contains two main pieces: **"Thanksgiving"** (left column): A tongue-in-cheek editorial celebrating Thanksgiving while sardonically noting America's genuine problems—murders, bank fraud, "shorn lambs from Wall Street," and dirty streets. The piece mocks the irony of being thankful despite social ills, while acknowledging Thanksgiving as a legitimate "pretty custom" for family reunion. **"A Triangular Fight"** (right column): References Captain Marryatt's novel about a mathematical duel involving three parties arranged as an equilateral triangle. The author draws a contemporary political parallel: the dispute between **Carlisle, Cox, and Randall** over the Speaker's chair. The satire suggests these three political rivals should resolve their conflict as elegantly as Marryatt's mathematical duelists, rather than fighting chaotically. This appears to reference late-19th-century House leadership disputes, mocking the messiness of actual politics versus orderly literary solutions.

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THE JUDGE. 324, 326 and 328 Pearl St (Franklin Square.) PUBLISHED ONCE A WEEK. TERMS TO SUBSCRIBERS rear St, New York. ete St. (Fleet St Lospos, Est ase, NOTICE. CORRESPONDENTS. QUEST CLAIN FOR RENUSERATION WELL RKC ENTERTAINED, THANKSGIVING. We celebrate Thank we not? As a Nation we tobe thankful for, and give thanks in the orthe our turkey bones with an a all, the and anksgiv Why should eat deal red to 1 yack After lebration of > prey way, 3 ppetit due proper c g day depends more upon the quantity and quality of the turk upon anythi Bat we hav deal to be thankfal for. We have A, Arthur, for in and navy—both little th suflicient to excuse than Thank: rn evs than else, nce; have elves, but we a riving day, or ses for either, And we have our quota of murders and robbers and broken banks and shorn lambs from Wall Street and. dirty strects and a vast for which men and ful, and sometimes w » too, ortment of other things ations should be thank- thankful, THe Jeper | nders if the turkeys are thank- After all, why should they not be ally if they are worthy of the philos- © in which they live, and can see life o and Socrates and that bar-tender ok too much landanum the other day, we saw it, But with all that, Thanksgiving isa pretty custom and a welcome festival. It isa day | of family reunion. Goto the Grand Cent depot or any of the outlets from New Yo in k Day, and see the loaded trains that are carrying the busy | « 3 y | THE JUDGE. toilers of the town out to eat their Thanks: giving dinner with their country consi shspirits—the bi nd one and all are r They sins, but they don’t mind. that; ‘They are all in| ¥ toile not the trains bent on having a jolly good time re crowded on the t vat such times the much abused pub- ion to return Van- in kind. They are they will be very unlikely to ction dinner as they are leaving at te convinced that the farm house will be that each man must cat his home: and they are q dinin m of the litt so full of ga dinner with his elbow in his neight What of it? sister, or cousin or aunt who is to be ‘Then it is plea sometimes may, four rd and sanetifies and | Therefore ‘Tit es his readers a very happy and merry A leaves the turkeys to re- < plate That neighbor will be a dear met ner time, Mt rerations nd one be pt for fies whole day in their own way and from their own standpoint. A TRIANGULAR FIGHT. Cartats Marnyvart, who was certainly a novelist of idea seribes a difficulty or dis- s were involved, duello be imp and in those days the duel was even simpler. The only comp fact that there were ducl—in fact, But Captain Marryatt introduced a mathe- matical genius in the person of one of the in which three per 1 to the » dispute w ree code enough, ition in this ca: thr arties to th se was the seconds, whe adjusted the mirably. He de according to the principles difficulty ad- ribed an equilateral tri- punciated rst proposition of the first book of Enelid, and, placing the Ihc the word to blaze away. duelists one at cach ve In is te retted that we have apparently no mathematical genins at the present moe ment to arrange the de | fight between Carlisle, ils of the trian; x and Randall on such simpl Perhaps, asitu actory principles, lo is not so fashionable “i to be, the m with regs In any tter might he adjus rd to the rules of the prize ring. it must be fought out or the Speaker's chair, ample necommodate thr yn some basis, it is, cannot conveniently peo- Perhaps the contest might be arranged asain and run off in’ hea course is open to objections which do not apply to the triangu 1. be no possil There would : y of the partiei- pants being kille indeed, the r took the form of astceple-chase, which wou scarcely be dignified. Well, it has got te fought out somehow, and Tur willing to sce fair play, and shout lustily Jeper is the best man win!” the quarrel was triangular. | EVACUATION DAY. Ir George Washington, of blessed memory, could take a stroll to-day through the city he liberated a hundred years a3 and p stately buildings where he would find “ wires ricity, where he left cow », he would find many eh: He would fi left streets to pans nder over. waving he netted trees: with raph lighted by ele paths: he would find more or les honest otic he left fi above all, he would find the and, wlish just where they were before he drove them out- namely. in pe nof New York. ‘To be they would be English of a different : perhaps he might regard them as be- city ials where er sure toa type even more objectionable. adof King coachman co muld find that ated by the dudes but the city in possession of the I He wonld find English actors and actres ur theatres, and would probably | be importuned to buy their pictures, Me lish novels of the * Ouida” He would ” in the parks wonde eorge’s uniforms he would and eelskin trousers; the dragoon has been he would find itish just the same. | would f 1 our libraries. at him from. under he whole, if he ny people | teem have no purtic \ people, ir characters to admire and imitate, find the dude, admire + objection to the find much in We We imitate him, but we arc His frontal de- resembles that of a Still, to sy of imita- pd we hot sure we him, velopment too closely admirabl our people, he is hen the dictum of our ma tion, app our theatre nd sanctified to be that we shall sce nothing at which has not been hallowed by a London production, who must have a theatre to go to, grumble and submit; but that they submit under protest. is shown by the unequivocal access of every recent American. play pos- ed of any whatsoever, and. the failure of so Ia of the im- ported plays How long this of thin, but perhaps the next time we celebrate Evacuation Day, we will hav merit ge a percent vd sto continue none can tell: tors. smethir our own to take the place of what we have Otherwise the celebration will be only an encore of ag driven out ° farce. “ How-de-doo, dis mawnin’, Brudder Bo- Thearn dat de Mare had yer up fer and stecling, yisterday. tell de s yer gibben Brodder ¢ Tlie on de bed, and | company.” Tlie and steel s outen bad comicbooks.com