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# Judge Magazine Page Analysis This page from *Judge* magazine contains satirical commentary on contemporary issues circa 1888. **The Main Cartoon** ("Those New Spring Hats") depicts a tired hunter pursuing a bird for two hours—a visual metaphor for the futility of chasing fashionable trends. The joke satirizes women's obsession with fashionable spring hats. **"Where to Draw the Line"** argues that humor mocking sacred things lacks wisdom, contrasting folly's visibility with humility's worthiness of respect. It critiques indecent theatrical plays that portray misconduct without moral consequence. **"A Matter of Nothing"** references President Grover Cleveland's lease of the White House until March 1888. The satire mocks obsessive focus on trivial details (like exact move-out dates) while ignoring larger philosophical questions about time and significance—a tongue-in-cheek jab at political fixation on minor procedural matters rather than substantive governance. The text emphasizes that satirists should punch up at power, not down at the vulnerable.
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3 bulldozing of young men for the purpose of injur- . ing their morals o1 acter, She shall cl no man under the chin, and she shall be as strictly just with dudes as with gentlemen and scholars. asastage her on the street, ‘ind heaven bless her! And if any man comes to her with a humil ing * Please, ma’am, I want to be arrested,” it shall be her duty to hit him with the stuifed club wherewith she shall be armed, to get his head in chancery, and to drag him mercilessly to his humble home. THE OBSTINATE MAN would sooner pay: thirty dollars to moveand have all his. traps lost and broken than submit toa maiseof a dollar in rent. A MATTER OF NOTHING, The Jup pl volving the white house, “The present tenant will occupy these premises THOSE NEW SPRING HATS. until Mareh, 1888, Tike srontsMax—* Will you ° r madain? I've been following that bird for two hours.” the Dakota Tribune says we displace the tenant it as many sicknesses as he has fingers and toes during the next year too previous. Dear boy of the Tribune, you are one of several. twelve months, but have no fear for Jar I body asks you Dost remember the fable of the colored man who said “I've found a what's the matter with James G. merely remark right"— — dollah,” and the immediate se of the interlocutor, * You jess luff and you'll find in due season that you're all right in the delivery of ‘em down in—I ony f But, by the horn that opinion spoons! it is just as true U : it to go out tw months oy ri before his official period; and there is that in these infernal WHERE 10) DRAM TUE LNBs dear boy, which no man in his ¢ senses can put That humor which jokes of things which other men and women trust in. Time, my child? Records of tin All figures that any deem sucred is not the gentleness of good conduct or the wisdom of fly ke m walking with wet feet over some contemptible white Folly wears its cap so that it may bea fair mark for paper? ‘There is to be an eternity of that stupendous nothingness, so rund shakes its bells to attract attention; but the humblest |; feant that it couldn't write itself on the whitest sky er is entitled to respect be it ever so absurd in its expression, and with the bla i Time? Twelve months of Grover Cleveland march should hia ily the unsandaled step and the reverent gither as tothe fact or the absence of it? Go to! These be trifling It takes a boor to tread cruelly upon hu matters. What are ciocks, that they should be tyrants over the fiekass to loosen the sod and browse contented! pn the shrubbery intellect of mant ons hence the recording angel—a superfluous of the und as bet ves i efor a official, but one provided for in the : heathenism of red tape— will | ifying glass back to the ‘88 and the “89, -veland and the various insects that obstructed in measure the ever-living atmosphere, sne at wipe his nose with the involuntary reminiscence, and spit them hack s the honor of the woman on the ground that she ty the obseur was a victim sault. This is sufliciently bad in book or 1 Hi + ity of their tocap the elim the miserableness, the woman is made, through i pique at her husband's neglect and injustice. to run away with another individus Thus the r het cursed without blame, assumes iniquity as avi or ce, and the father and hush are made to sult sackcloth because of their injustice of jud There is dra | cin that, but its un iralness is so villa that it ought to nothing of its dirt. In decent plays indecent men are not presented as leading Ws. That isan insult to art as great as Mr. Howells’s in mal ading men and women of individuals who ought ty be consigned, tobegin and end with, to the plow or the workhouse, WER RULES AND REGULATIONS, The policewoman advised by Mrs. 1. Be We bee tered are all so Tittle rmust come, that it s enough to be ener- the h to be persuasiv re be arguments lectua the street. She including t of that persuasion Hist not venture inte the sidedoor until there shall be provided for her secommodation the seductive 1 She must ent to stipul upon ne Sam‘ a-posin’. comicbooks.com