Judge, 1886-03-13 · page 2 of 16
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# Judge Magazine Page Analysis This page contains three distinct items: 1. **"Judge" masthead cartoon** (top): A caricatured figure in exaggerated dress, though context for the specific satire is unclear from the image alone. 2. **"The Later Falstaff"** (center): Political commentary on presidential authority, referencing the president's "false assumption" regarding Senate power and a character "Jack." The text discusses debates over executive versus legislative power, invoking Shakespearean allusions to Falstaff. 3. **"A Dude's Delight"** (bottom): A social cartoon showing a woman and man in conversation, with the caption about the woman not enjoying herself while "a dozen girls' eyes are glued on me." This satirizes vanity and gender dynamics of courtship among the wealthy leisure class. The page primarily targets political overreach and social pretension typical of Gilded Age satirical commentary.
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JUDGK. PUBLISHED ONCE A WEEK. Ww, Jal GOW. Hotates, de Peepenace W, Nosreasy TERMS TO SUBSCRIBERS UNITED STATES AND CANADA sa thousand leagues whenever it ) Sharp pulling ns a sentence with the words, of Brother Evarts’s attitude on the How ? on his boots, Tur Sun be; ki silver question. ” jad to learn that General Turk JupGr is Hancock had an insurance of $10,000 on his life, and that the money was paid to his widow | last week Ir is announced that Mr. Evarts has not changed his views on the silverquestion, We | haven't been so startled since the battle of | New Orleans, Presipest CLEVELAND es the ground that letters to him with regard to oflice-holders are private propert dhe has a right t destroy them if he so chooses. There is some- thing very kingly in this haps, havi i it the or consent of the senate, nd destroy office at his royal pleasure. This is the logical following of his | argument, and the period when he shall cap his ambition with a crown ought not to be far | distant. Ose house of the Massachusetts legislature has passed a bill prohibiting the gift or sale of tobacco or cigarettes to minors. The result will | be, if the bill becomes a law, that two young men will use tobacco, “or cigarettes,” whe one young man used them before. It is t story of the forbidden fruit over again. The more the anti-liquor and the anti-tobacco agi- tation the greater the use of the filth and the | beverage. Pass laws to prohibit rolling in the mud and there will be such wallowing of that kind as never occurred before, lest things in the experience | of this administration is the opposition it has | aroused on the part of the mugwump press, We find the president caricatured by this press asa man wearing a garland of thorns, and there is evidently a disposition to repudiate | him and the utmost cesire to fi cause for doing so. This indicates two things— | that the president is tired of the j declaration to the fourth He JUDQK. wumps: and the mugwumps are tired of t alts in giving the country a Demo cratic president so much the better for the Demoe rty; but as for the mugwumps, president do but run themselves into a nd hate each other to death ¢ THE LATER FALSTAFF. The false assumpt little controversy with th: of the fi it in his minds on nate t assumption of fat Jack in his ry that he had lit valiantly the men in green. In the at of the y paunch and was quickly exposed, but with his usual audacity found a small hh whi exe himself. In th modern Falstaf there is no hole the assumption being too ls through ase of the f that kind, permit of any Hal puts him to to truth, knight is blown with his own wind to such a that there is small room for prince but the sharp words of his adversary will prick xtreme rotundity and reduce his size and importance, though he will never grow se to run out of the keyhole which is all pe left him. his POLITICAL PROGRESSIVE EUCHRE. The political situation ented in the gay that is und At the royal table are Garland Logan, peurat y pretty a 3 ressive euchre nm ourdouble-cartoon py or the table of the gold star, Cleveland, Edmunds and The secretary has a very baud hand; but the president—who, by the way, is one of the best whist-players in the country, what- he may know about euchre—proposes to assist him, ma hand he holds, partner. ‘The cards without r stly to the detriment of the cessarily to that of his 1 plays his ubmunds, propos me by his own dexterity and car and Mr, rm belonging tothe vie nunds, in the sume vein of serene will win with his cards alone, if he while cocking his off eye at the sen atorial-presiden alty whieh at present itates an always interested public and nv it asthe little joker whieh with his other cards nobody can beat At the pr e, or that of th green jor For Hill. The C progress to be ma ly on the gentlemen of the royal board, with partial possession ane or rather of the g poorly, ar 1 possession and sof the law arts has played ything worth ume were bluff he would have been out of it before he began it, and in the matter of dexterity he is at fault quite as much: as in that of « bright is not likely to do mentionin win the gam pposed te Hill, whe is one of the best card-players of the company and will let slip no opportunity, and Speaker Carlisle, who is keen enough, but who, unhappily for him, is handicapped by his excessive devotion to the tioned as free trade. At the booby t are Mr. 1 beaten in th all time by ti-progress men or that of the red star, . who won at St. Louis to be ation and who was beaten for ‘ammany at Cincinnati; Ben But- r, who is the clown in politics and card-play- nd on whom Mr. Dana lost y: little Mahone of Virgin in; sums » whose A DUDE'S DELIGHT. Hostess—‘* I'm afraid you are not enjoying yourself.” Dvpe—“I am indeed, though. More than a d n girls’ eyes are glued on me.” comicbooks.com