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# Judge Magazine Satire Analysis This page contains two distinct pieces of social commentary: **"One of a Number"** (the cartoon): A theater-box scene satirizing divorced women's casual attitude toward ex-husbands. The joke mocks the proliferation of divorces among the wealthy, treating former spouses as forgettable acquaintances rather than significant relationships. It's a barb at upper-class marital instability and women's increasing independence. **"Let Us Pick Our Boycotters"** (the essay): A clever inversion of the boycott concept, arguing that people should have the *right to choose who boycotts them*—celebrating the removal of unwanted people from one's life. The piece uses historical examples (General Washington, prisoners) to humorously argue that being boycotted by certain people (annoying visitors, creditors, prison wardens) is actually desirable. It's satire about social nuisance and the fantasy of selective social rejection. Both pieces reflect Gilded Age anxieties about changing social order, divorce, and class relations, using humor to critique contemporary behavior.

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JUDGE. ure very valuable. Théy are to be replanted in Dry Gulch, Ala., and } Mich., and Cornshuck rapid, Ark., nd Log-eabin rivulet, N.C., and Hightide k, O., and various other streams to the » geographer totally unknown; and they represent besides various governmental structures and other things of an appropriatory orisin, being fish of the miraculous kind and much to be multiplied as the loaves and -s of scriptural history. in comparison with this, is the fisheries question as it exists at this moment between the United States and Canada? Thousands of Americans are so impoverished by the situa- tion attending t atter that they can’t get a bite for themselves or their wives and children ; but congress has no time to think of them, and the administration, between its sleep, its mar- rying and its search for the sequestered trout, is equally disabled. Meanw the Yankee x vessel goes skulking like a sneak tothe ks, and runs a like a coward before nd menace, and the flag is so it is spoken of with contempt | angling LET US PICK OUR BOYCOTTERS. ‘This establishme puld like to be boycot ted. It claims the right to select its own boy: | cotters, but in other respects it indorses the ple in its largest length and breadth, Properly applied, there is nothing more lovely than this prineiple. Mr. Jachne hit the mark pretty well when he said that what he wanted was to be boycotted by Mr. Martine and Colo- nel Fellows; and when President Cleveland paused in his expressions of undying affection ‘tner of his ulate that 1 those reporters would boycott him ited not only a great truth but an lent theory. in a much-abused policy of action. ‘Go away from me, ‘ med Major Andre to the gentleman who encircled eck with a rope; “your c is di able and your manners nted to be boycotted. So also, when the British troops embarked for home from the Battery a hundred years ago, General Wash- ington remarked, as vaved them adieu with a section of the fle he was temporarily using for a pogket dkerchief, ‘* That is the kind of boycotting that suits me ;” where- upon the ragged continentals -hurrahed as if the period of the ward caucus had already begun, Examples of this kind might be enumerated until the arrival of the cows for the evening exercises, There is no household that does not yearn for boycotters—bear in mind the unwel- ome visitor. There is no court that does not tell of husbands who desire to be boycotted by the ladies of their respective bosoms. There are the impecunious gentlemen who, having assumed new garments through the vocal legerdermain at which they are adepts, beg that they may not be interviewed by the com- mercial representatives of their tailors. Who is there who would not like to be boycotted by the warden of Sing Sing prison? Which of us would not rejoice with exceeding joy to have the universal sweetheart boycotted by that other man @ The principle is right. ‘The only thing nee- csary to its legitimate development is the privilege of selecting the boycotters. By whom this establishment would like to be boy- cotted is eloquently told by a suffering artist ‘on the back page to-day; and we may add that if the parties therein enumerated persist in prin ONE OF A NUMBER. oe ttNey—" Who is that simpering idiot who persists in staring at you from the opposite box ?” Mus. De Lancy—“ Let me see ; oh, that's—er—er—well, I've forgotten his name, but he used to be a husband of mine.” °| their infernal friendliness they will be boy-|is to wear the plug hat or destroy it, but it cotted, if there is any virtue in dogs and gun-| probably _ __ powder, into premature and uncomfortable/ The Rochester Post-Express says the toy graves, pistol was not set afloat in its city on decora- ——S—— |tion day, And very wisely, It wouldn't float worth a cent. . poems Har of the Courts“ tcnuttasandRocneacrcatorsare quart: —— ing over the great question which city has the The strike of the Buffalo bakers brings into) poorest base-ball club, and up to date each has disrepute the old doctrine that half a loaf is| scored several brilliant defeats. letter than no bread | tt: may ‘at leant be anstrlad of our poverucr’s Martin Irons says he will lecture in the east. |alleged widow that she isn't one of the mug: If he does the east is more patient and long- wump kind. Now the next thing to be dis- suffering than we think it is. \covered is whether re is a widow. Robert Browning says O. W. Holmes is the| Dr. Hanchett denies the report that he is to Horace of America. It is our impression that| marry Miss Murfree. Inasmuch as he adds Mr. Greeley earned that distinction. \that he never reads the newspapers it appears “Where are the temperance men ?” asks | us that the denial is wholly superfluous. correspondent of the Rochester Democrat. ’Sh!|_ Inasmuch as Mrs. Bill of East Jordan, Mich., Just gone around the corner to sleep it off, | has been arrested three times for flogging her for everything American, Just so; and Dixey thought at one time it would take his head off.|_ Pleasant Lake, Mich., has a brass band com- posed of seven girls. Probably as soon as It is understood that Mr Buddensick admires| these seven girls resign in behalf of seven men the construction of Sing Sing prison, and has|the band will make pretty good music. an ardent desire to inspect it from the outside Sars = fe = i A poem of of six hundred verses written by Mr. Cleveland is understood to have re-| Victor Hugo thirty years ago has just been marked, reverting to politics for a moment, | published. It is lucky for Victor that he died. that it is a Hill wind that blows nobody good. | ‘The infuriated populace cannot reach him over In Michigan there is a plug-hat society. We there. are not informed as to whether the intention) Union Point, Ga., has a woman with a beard comicbooks.com