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# The Judge Page Analysis **"The Bank Official at Work" and "Going To and From Work"** (left cartoons): These contrasting panels satirize the double life of corrupt bank officials during the Gilded Age. The left shows an official at his desk, seemingly juggling accounts or hiding fraudulent activities (note the chains and balls), while the right depicts him dressed respectably in military-style attire, presenting a facade of respectability in public. The satire critiques how financial criminals maintained respectable appearances despite their dishonest dealings. **"How to Be Good"** (poem): This piece sardonically instructs young girls on restrictive Victorian behavior—silence, obedience, suppression of personality—mocking the era's oppressive gender expectations. **"Puts and Calls"** (dialogue): A husband bitterly explains stock market terminology to his wife, likely referencing the recent financial crisis mentioned (the "recent failures"), where ordinary people lost money to brokers' speculation. The husband's anger reflects real public resentment toward Wall Street gambling. **"Mrs. Soporose from Beartown"**: A woman humorously insists on accompanying her husband to the Chicago Convention, asserting women's rights and refusing domestic confinement—satirizing both women's emerging political consciousness and male resistance.

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THE JUDGE. THE BANK OFFICIAL AT WORK. clown is encouraged. If the United States was to undertake to stop the mouth of every blatherskite intl nonsense she would have enough to And, ing that England ought to who preached nmatory in conclusion, we cannot help think- e strong enough to protect herself. However, until she feels herself strong enough to do without Glud- nd to substitute a man of nerve and action for that milk probably will continy erious trouble with her Irish malc We pathise with her, but, we fear, cannot help stone, nd water Premier, she o have nts may sym- her. sat : failed to deal with the Irish problem, she may try me Then, and not till then, Perhaps, when the British people arc fied that Gladstone and concession hi another government and other Londen will be safe from let the English United States for misc much nearer home. Meanwhile, op tie ief that is fostered press blaming CONEY ISLAND JOCKEY CLUB. kers break on ; but the oble ani- the horse regains unabated, und races 8 well patroni No rac in the vicinity of New Y pop ity of the Sheepshead Bay track and the crowds which attend all the meet- ings there are invariably well repaid and y sat ‘This popular race has recently been enlarged and im- proved in mi and to-day may be fairly regarded the finest course in the world. ‘Che management is beyond reproach, and, combining as it does accessibility, prox: imity to the ocean, and excellent sport, it is not wonderful that all New York and its y be found at the meetin Pouities ebb and flow; b Wall street and skip for ( How to be Good. Cour, here, my pretty little girl, With hair balf hanged and half in curl, Raise up to me those Tustron So blue tsow And learn of me what's un By bein, so Inci¢ At table For every article 3 When told that itis Don’t pout your before all the t air the househi 1 skeleton If sister chance to have a beau, It’s wrong to hide his hat you Kk to your mamma + of papa, not understand nurse's hand; Such specul Have set st In fact, there are so many th You must not do; such wonderi That, all atone, you must think out, That ‘twill be best without a doubt While you remain so very young To sit quite still and hold your t Puts and Calls. “My pean,” said a young wife to her husband, who had been rather badly bitten in Wall street at the time of the recent fail- ures there, ‘‘ what is the meaning of the words ‘ puts’ and ‘calls’ which I see in the newspapers so often ?” “Tt means,” he replied, with quite an unnecessary display of savageness, as his vife thought, ‘that when some idiot puts money in the hands of a broker to spec- te with for him, and then calls for it THE BANK OFFICIAL GOING TO AND FROM WORK. Mrs. Soporose, from Beartown, at the Chicago Convention. WHEN sorrers, horse ble the legal partner of my joys and Simcon Soporose, drew “up to the k one eveni and said he'd been appointe legate to the Chicago Conven- tion, I riz right up from the table where I'd been a settin out the te: to him, e, You go too?” : sciously re and making a pun at Phen noticing the look of ion and bewilderment peculiar to the tribe stealing over his idiopathie countenance, I deemed it best to sit. upon him then and there and nip any further ob- jections in the t “Do you suppose,” says 1, “Td to brave the terrors of a sleepin one the iniquitous city of } York f the same time, indec Soporo “notif [know myself, a woman suffragist, and a woman's woman to the remotest bone of my vertembre, but no one shall ever s: deserted my husband in the hour So thei no use discussin’ the matter any further. If you goto Chicago L shall go with you,” and then I cut the matter short by inquiring when he expe to start, and how many clean shirts he s’posed he'd want. He looked more bewildered than ever and said he didn’t know * A nice kind of a man you are to nomin- ate a President,” “You don’t know any more about | than you do about traveling, and that’s next to nothing.” “Vd like to know where you'd be without me,” I continued, “Td be in Chicago without you, if I could,” says he, sofoe vochy. I pretended not to hear, but the next morning [ hitched up the old gray mare and drav to town myself and learned fall particn- lars. Then came back and washed and ironed four shirts for Simeon and a petticoat comicbooks.com