Judge, 1886-02-06 · page 2 of 16
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The main cartoon shows a disheveled, distressed figure labeled "JUDGE." Based on the accompanying article "AN EMBARRASSMENT OF RICHES," the satire concerns wealthy individuals during wartime—specifically a Confederate citizen purchasing breakfast with gold while others face scarcity. The cartoon likely mocks profiteering and class disparity during the Civil War period. The articles below address political figures (references to Gladstone, Jacob Sharp) and social issues. "THE NEW ADONIS" discusses physical attractiveness standards, while "THE QUEEN'S LAUGH" references Queen Victoria. The content reflects typical Judge magazine satire: critiquing political corruption, social hypocrisy, and contemporary scandals through sharp commentary and caricature. The overall tone targets wealthy elites exploiting wartime conditions.
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JUDGE. PUBLISHED ONCE A WEEK. UNITED STATES ANO PUBLISHI THE JUDGE ithers no moss, but it is | not impor the shi Tue World says Js meshes, We make a mesh o! Iways thou fit sooner or later. THE President's first dinner in honor of the Diplomatic Corps was 1 and fourter Porter, the Assi Je up of seven wines snot to mention Mr t Secretary « his weaker vessel of the same flay pari provocative of m| me thirst this dinner with those of Mr. Hayes is ch moral reflection and Ir is reported that the Mormons are resortin to bribery. The report is undoubted]. While it must be frankly admitted th ctly © who has six wives is not st too much te descend to mani ox, it is believe that such a man would and customs which have heretofore been practised with comparative Jusiveness on the New York Boanl of Al | of that kin¢ can alford lusury if they After all, the fight by cept to the deputy: which only the r the poor will have far mo: not want to afford it deputy brings ne and two-thinds period are be malice and acer Wut Ireland most needs is union and har- mony, and this may be had under the Mr. Parnell. Let Ireland ceas self id freedom will follow he men who get funds for dynamite » be dreaded than all the En world, The the sassination in’ Ph » of Ireland ten years, there is no year of such melancholy. loss that f returns to be reformed. Parnell means nd the first victory of all must be Ireland over her divided self from certain war papers, including | » eapture | § | the too discriminative ¢ | from the imp. JUDG Kk. \ these of Lew Wal jealous « int, Sherman believed that if C. PF. Smith had lived he v ter than Grant ature Which bodes De ey and all the evil that the words ad within the win, ee, that Halleck was | this deceitful er have been at his Hat his command tanton abused: ( ar | # y realy ton like a pickpocket, and many lives were unnecesstrily with the purpose of keepi KING JOHN AND THE LATER BARONS, Clellan from being President. What had all alone by me down w him the Ma extent been the sand how | In 1215 the English but for | King John and forced fr with respect to Jefferson | Charta which deracy. Most of the per: | foundat The green val have destroyed each oof civilize sand his cor vernment ever since Lin th hat thers will be no quarreling WH tous from the papers are dead. Itis fields and) spreadi be repeated within Iuildin dents and Confeder the s over there nd net uding: spirits | marmy will clasp invisible hands the principle involved init isa has on that memore It is not the Kin That lange wernment which old lesson of the w | rights of man and is obli to submit it oss their bloody chasms too, ble occas! AN EMBARRASSMENT OF RICHES. pulaniins tor authority to the time when every | contr into the 1 immediately uy, however rand bet Know s the Kin, V its arri ies have brongghit abont cireumst atand a pair of sinations that might have be It vin of the conquerors « tronger, and | wo’ than any | tends the work of though perhaps the n The Trish bar mark is superfluous at handled A little picture that prevailed during the | perate at the war represented a Confeders nv setting | demandin out to purchase his breakfast. His market Lasket overtlowed with Ce and on his return he was supposed to have basket piece of meat wrapped up in his vest pocket the market purch: Vilization thus achieved ps of The men at their head ane te ne time that they are finn in s that should have been The Trish can unite under and thus the chapter of vil by the Rossis and) the secret derite money pation in Treland may ited, even if it may not be rubbed y car It is a progressive period, and Kil te held | John Bull reh with the front line. smpany | is followers son if he desires a yanl s for presents that Success to By and THE QUEEN'S LAUGH. The Queen lar trance of the Commons into the He tthe late openi ‘THE NEW ADONIS. | the fat, unctuous | her size, however, Tq el in it, and as the wump liberty is not remarkably beautiful to | to the experiment alico be may hav two-horse wagon, Ou ated the may not the dat the boisterous en 1 of Parliament, It was not ily laugh of most ladies of re was t ation as it exists now, and what | nis who adorns the pedestal of mug: al distortic to the royal opties it nned at its temerity, and ure so adjusted that they ean | ran back tothe royal chin and out of sight with great velocity. No good laugh ean fit titude of this Adonis suggests at | itself aceu reval countenance on but happily the | suddenly stopped, a eves of parent see only beauty in the children of their tions. "The first glane tely to an & recent attendance upon s tate occasions. — The ation that produces extraondinarily long. late and exciting laughter, which runs out from the heart to ad with De et: | tickle the ribs and touch the lips and cheeks ture; but the company in | with the rentleness of a sunbeam, ix If net bein having no to cus, the same atten cratic form of aliquid 1 whieh he finds h a company | frozen k to its starting point by the lemnity it meets, and loses its life before it is 1. And there is so much lost. The The nthe laugh at t $ of politics end s« tion anythi wt onature, it may perhaps be | inferred that he is suffering from somethi of a | 1 effort te occupy two pedestals at one time, th ad the dd neces: Whether this Adonis is to break his neck after a few exhibitions | has gone vility of retain aceful, must ¢ mniestic s harmfy quality—say > street other: y, have little > merry jest round the world, taking the jest yan attitude | with it, and e hom | nes ripple of laughter started by: so1 fresh as ever, which, howe great deal will merely to renew its jou and so has ations. The life is beyond that of man, deli » him a ether he | kept going thro ass his thousandth night—the same oe- on the third of March 188: it at now that his happy parents | names. the are in a state of great delight just at present | a certain kind of de nd feel that he peradventure be prosper their er painful labor, or w pable as itis. Itis given rude whereof has to do with aved nut, but it lives on a thing of beauty and may | and on and never loses its youth and beauty ver. May | n | The laugh of the Ki stions, for, sooth to say, itis | such thing, The laugh of the Queen difficult. to determine wh they are not | prithee, good mother Victoria, never laugh even sweeter and more than their | that laugh again. hitful offspring. | Meanwhile, however, the polished villain |“ ScaTTER your ashes.” 5 » he may destroy must be | Philadelphia Herald. Nev There is that in the eye of | life remains, however—there is m the editor of the never while comicbooks.com