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# Analysis of Judge Magazine Page This page from Judge contains social commentary and light satire typical of late 19th-century humor: **Main Cartoon ("A Question of Erroneous Estimate")**: Shows well-dressed men in a carriage, illustrating a joke about a stout man asking to join friends for a buggy ride. The humor relies on physical comedy—the carriage is too small for someone of his size. **Textual Satire Targets**: - **Henry Bergh** (animal welfare advocate): Mocked for selectively targeting poor swearers while ignoring wealthy ones like Jacob Sharp - **Princess Louise**: Joked about her reluctance to attend weddings despite attending Grover Cleveland's - **Labor strikes**: References "Martin Irons" (unclear reference) and mentions strikes ending/resuming frequently - **Sara Bernhardt**: Satirizes French actresses as hypocritically claiming innocence while being sophisticated The page blends society gossip, political figures, and absurdist humor typical of Judge's satirical approach to contemporary American life and personalities.

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4 JUDGE. when, of course, new ones could be provided.| Colonel Ingersoll says that if there is a bad | They might be put on sale in the book-stores, | place all hotel men ought to go there. The and eventually their publication might become|colonel likes good accommodations, and. ap- an important part of the beginning of every | parently he wants to pick out his room in ad- month or week. vance. nd _Why, however, does Henry Bergh confine! Gipson of Missouri, who has just died, his attentions to such swearers as the poverty-| 1 110d to be 120 yearsold. We ‘Gib. stricken individual who recently offended him oo Oro ittle exaeeeration, but thir méy ‘a and who could not afford to pay a fine? One|". a eae oe of the most expert and vicious swearers in this |” 08 to they siate :of {his mind ‘and his’ resi hina lence. city is Jacob Sharp. Why docs not Henry —— Bergh devote a little attention tohim and such| Somebody says he would rather read the adepts in profanity as can afford to pay for the| death notices than the editorials of the London luxury? Times. We suppose he avoids the latter a3 = <= a means to escaping appearance among the Main of the Court. former. The prevailing strike is ended only about There are indications that labor has one too| three times a week now. It used to be ended many Martin Irons in the fire. at the close of every twenty-four hours, but a there arose a suspicion that there was more lie than peace. It is said that the princess Louise would like to attend Grover Cleveland’s wedding. This is a great compliment. It isonly recently that the princess has shown a liking for weddings. She even objected to her own. A correspondentasks, ‘‘ What is theosophy?” Theosophy is the art of expecting the impossi- ble and never accomplishing it. 5 an’ thedivil’s own odmahoun av a gatekaper says, says he, ‘ Weain't tekin’ shquirrels this year!” 80 he did.” A western writer signs himself “ Kicking Bird.” We shall hear presently of a writer| who likens himself to a singing mule. island, hand in their money and go on with the scratching. Same thing about Jones of Florida. Not in love; merely wants to gaze upon Miss Palm. But, alas! same thing about Miss Palm. Miss Stone Cole of Des Moines was of the| racy ;soit is not sury | ‘The Minneapolis Globe says there are a mil- lion dear, good girls in the United States. The subject is an exciting one and invites inaccu- ng that the Globe should A churn in Elgin, Ill., recently burst and |killed two men, Evidently there is nothin |to be relied on except the bottles ‘containin |deleterious beverages. They never burst; they leave the men who patronize them to do that adamantine variety, but as she has just been | have taken leave of its census. . part of the business. married there is probably going to be a change. Icebergs three miles long are to be seen off Labrador, and their length will probably be Sara Bernhardt says French ladies are too innocent to appreciate Shakespeare. If there is anything a French lady dislikes it is to be greatly increased as soon as we get the next| thought innocent, and we shall not be sur- number of the Albany Argus. A Russian nobleman who gambles recently prised to sce all the belles go ringing for Sara. Are the ambitious young men of this coun- lost half a million dollars at a single sitting. | try aware that for the low price of twenty-five Must be a smart man. We couldn't do that if|cents they can scratch their names on the we should play all the while for six months to| statute of Bartholdi’s Liberty? All they have come. | to do is to interview the authorities on Bedloe’s There was really and truly an Annie Lauri but she jilted the poet who made her immortu! and married the practical man who was his rival, It is generally thus; but it may be bet- ter to be poct Lauricate than to marry happily. Still we do not think so. Rose Coghlan proposes to be a sage too. She has purchased a villa near Greystone and has already begun to throw eyes at Uncle Sammy; and about next month she will write an 4 A QUESTION OF ERRONEOUS ESTIMATE. PakTY IN BUGGY (to stout “Come in, and let us take a spin in the park.” Stout Frienp—‘ No, I thank you ; a light buggy is hardly a suitable vehicle for one of my dimensions.” Teeny iend on sidewalk who is not supposed to underrate his own importance)— P. IL. B.—* Nonsense! Climb in! ‘Perhaps you aren't as big a man as you think you ure. ___ jon our coast defences and be entertain members of Grover's cab- inet. Somebody says the hand of Tilden is clearly visible in the management of congress. There has been a pre- valent impression that there has been |no management in congress; but if there has been and Tilden is re |sponsible for it thesage must be very jerazy as well as very old. Beatrice and Louise appeared in the procession at the opening of the col- onial exhibition in London, while Battenberg and Lorne cooled their heels among the ordinary specta- tors. They say the queen never looked more happy and comfortable \than on this occasion, and we can {readily believe it. “Young woman,” says an ex |change, “do not marry too soon.” |Young woman, look to the man rather than to the age. Any time is jtoo soon for some marriages, and no jtime is too soon or too late for some jother marriages. But as between the |too soon and the too late, do not be too—too particular. Time once past is gone forever, and good opportuni ties are not so plentiful as many tov late ladies wish they were and use! to think they were. Oh, young woman! on the whole improve the shining hours. comicbooks.com