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# Judge Magazine Political Satire Analysis This page contains multiple satirical pieces: **"After the Burlesque"** (top): A married couple discusses opera costumes. The husband claims he couldn't see details without opera glasses, implying his wife wore an inappropriately revealing costume—likely satirizing theatrical excess or women's fashion standards of the era. **Garfield Memorial Commentary** (center): The text praises President James Garfield (assassinated 1881) while acknowledging his flaws—broken promises, treachery, and untrustworthiness among those who knew him. The satire critiques how historical figures gain heroic status through distance and time, even when contemporaries knew them as deeply flawed. It's a pointed commentary on selective memory and posthumous reputation-building. **"What a Patient Fit This Is!"** (bottom): A short satirical piece about a subway commission drawing $15,000 annually, questioning whether this expense is justified given its purpose of burying wires. **June Character Sketch**: A sentimental description of June as an innocent girl, possibly mocking Victorian sentimentality about seasons or youth. The overall tone is acerbic social and political criticism.

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3 years ago, and doubtless clasp- ed hands over the chasm that drank their blood. Let them honor their hsand sears and bat- tleflags. as we honor ours. It is the privilege of the conqu or to be liberal, and that vie~ was the get tory which re- \ f : Ay ral inquiry fused regreton |} Wj f 3 134 f “Well,” the part of the vanquished wonld be so contemptible that it ought to be no victory atall. The d we decorate is a proclamation of forgiveness, at the sume time that it is a re- cognition of the unavoidabihty of error and of the fact that there can be no ments{ Out west there was a vigilance committee prevent horse stealing. Pres- ently the com: mittee were well - mounted, and more horses were lost than before it got to work. “How is thi re- plied the chair man oft ne mittee, “we found it impos- sible to stop the stealing, owing to the prevail ing feeling that itis a legitimate industry, and it so happens that the committee are afflicted with corns.” GARFIELD. They celebra perfection of AFTER THE BURLESQUE ted Garfield in Mrotghtaild ao- Mr. Jewns—" Beautiful coxtume that the queen of the amazons wore last night, was it not? tion until Mr. Gabriel blows his tramp. Mas. Jexxs—" Indeed I don't know. I could not see it, But then you had the opera-glasses and perhaps it was visible with these.”* ba a oui xton ne other ‘The president did his memory honor, and the statue in his behalf is said to be worthy of the man. While they were celebrating him perhaps a hundred men who knew him intimately, and as many who knew of him through his intimacy with their frie “luck” which made him great and at the immunity whic! his weaknesses as they u tood them, These two hundred men suid to themselves that he was doub ed; that he promised and forfeited the pro that he was treacherous; that he was not to be trusted by friend or held to honorable contract by foe. Well, let any of them put themselves in Garfield's place. If they have a better rec- ond for cours for ability, for good faith, for desire to conciliate, for manlir for disposition to compromise difficulties between factions each of which demands all, the world will judge them fairly. But they will find it hard to show a completer, better rounded life, a man- v lier existence, a tenderer and less selfish nature, and a more heroic sy ; 4 endurance of’ undeserved physical and mental suffering. Such men isa good girl. She puts up her must be judged ata distance. That is what history means. ‘The per- ry mouth for kisses without the Mts fect died eighteen hundred ye ago, and he perished of the slightest semblance of objection or un- Tene Clee SiRieen, Bund red Teeks, S80) ene He: perae ‘ : . littleness of those who knew him best and looked at him with suspi- desire. There is that frankness and large-heartedness in June |. . : ‘ ea cion because he was human enough to like their companionship and that no other month posse She hath largess of soul and cast thei sudgr impecuniosity of small business. There is that in her face ak which bespeaks frankness, trust, innocence and purity, like the stars which crown her head and the buds and blossoms which spangle her skirts. Probably she has moved. She must have done that to get here. Undoubtedly the moving has made neces- spring onion, the cold meats, the fragmentary cheese, ally unwholesome mbinat which flourishes on the uncomfortable side-board during the inevitable settlement which mov- ing involves; but there is promise in her gentleness, through which there comes no sleet or snow or frost or ice, or anything that is bad, of length and quiet of daysand wealth of slumberous and languid nights. There is no oppressiveness of atmosphere here. It is open and sump- tuous country, with not acloud in the sky, and no fear of the heat that will soon send the sprouting corn shooting up and crackle the ernels of it. This is the June we look for and whose depart- rger part of the inevitable regret. She is good and fair and wholesome, and it is such a pity that her annual life should be only thirty days long! WHAT A PATIENT CITY THIS IS! Our subway commission was so named in a spirit of facetiousness, Itis not its business to bury wires, but to elevate them. Tt draws $15,000 « year from the taxpayers. Would it not be odd, considering its action and its opportunity, if that were the extent of its emolu- WAT We MAY EXPECT To SEE WHEX THE WILD WEST SHOW RETURNS FROM ABROAD, comicbooks.com