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# "Compulsory Education" Cartoon Analysis This single cartoon depicts a classroom scene where a teacher confronts a student about poor attendance. The dialogue reads: "Mrs. Crowley—'What's dat sperrit? I been yer now?'" and "Jimmey—'See! Yous said a taxicab in yer school. I done brung de slate, an' de teacher don't like yer homes in dirtitches.'" The satire targets **compulsory education laws**, likely from the early 1900s. The broken dialect and immigrant setting suggest this mocks working-class families' struggles with mandatory schooling requirements. The joke appears to be that the student invented an absurd excuse ("taxicab in school") to explain absence, poking fun at both truancy enforcement and the comedic language barriers of urban immigrant communities.

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JUDGE PUBLISHED ONCE A WEEK. President W. J. AmweL. Art Department Bensiant GUtam Faitor 1M. Gaxoony TERMS TO SUBSCRIBERS. USTPRD RTATES AND CANADA, 18 ADVANCE, FOREIGN SUBSCKIPTIONS—To all foreign eanuntrica in the postal union, $8.4 year. THE JUDGE PUBLISHING Company (PoTTER BUILDING), Park Row, New York, EP™ We guaranter autvertisers a larger cirelation at cheaper rates than any Amer- fea satirical paper published. The Jepar. ia for sale at Brentano’ Avenue ite L'Opera, Paria THE MoRE this congress thinks about it the more it 1s too cowardly to do it. We 100K upon David B. Hill as Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde—espe- cially Hyde, T Love THAT Mm: hand and kill him, » Cleveland. 1s Dz B. Hilt. uld like to take him by the Ir 1s THOVaTIT by some that the Democratic party is “dependant on one man,” and they think his name is Hill. Iv ts TRU hat our patron saint Washington was given to pro- fanit y, but he swore in only one lang ORGE WASHINGTON never wore a wig. ugh of his own and head AT THE LINCOLN one name led all) th it necessary to say wi that was ? DINNER, rest. Is ich name THe square WALK at) Madison. arden demonstrated the power of James Albert to take the cake. IP THIS CONGRESS does nothing with the tard the people will toss the Democratic party so high that it will not come down in twenty y made the 22d ¢ ‘s was it that day that produced ¥ ¢ Tt is a great rhaps it will ne be satisfactorily answered. Ir ¢ were alive we should good weather iv February; but w expect of this national istration ? COMPULSORY Wha’s dat squealin’ I hears ‘low no *xeuses in rethmyticn.” Tue Nom Blaine by a of declination. <ATION of Mr. amation would leave that gentleman without the power Marta WasHINaTon once alluded to Mr. Custis, her first. hus- band, and immediately she wished she hadn’t done it XCELLENT IDEA of proprie in language is presented in the paper of February 11, Making F Before Lent.” Wasuinaton heard that B. Arnold had traitorized he gave a long sigh and remarked, ‘* By heavens! here's your first mugwump.” WASHINGTON WAS GUILTY of just one joke. He said on instance, that General Gates was one of those things on hinge were always ajar. for that No MAN has a right to decline a nomi: representativ that, Mr. Blaine. ‘ion tendered him by the f the people in national convention. Bethink thee of AFTER THAT SPEECH by Bismarck the statesmen of Europe looked was dal a tawkin’ in he's sleeps, aloft with renewed confidence at the ceiling of the assembly but after a long pause they put their he * After all, it's got to come. wher: ds together and remarked, THE LOWLAND BEAUTY who refused George Washington drew from that suffering man the worst: poetry that wa ten George was inuch relieved when he had got rid of i but THE STATEMENT that Governor Hill has stolen $17,000 fron the le in behalf of the executive mi nd? Pooh! The governor is no su asion venteen thou. BISMARCK PRONOUN the dep mic ES for peace in order to escape war pending rture of the emperor, the crown prince and the ead nothing of himself; but he shows his teeth 1: utter a grow] than to assume a smile of conciliation. Mr. Buaine is meddling too much with the politics of this What he wants to do is to take care of bis he: citizens manage their own affairs. The Republ quarters here—not in Florence, Italy. nuntry, th and let his fellow. au party has its lead- MARTHA NEVER said to G. Washington that he had_bett or that. Once when she tured upon that experiment he gave her a look of extreme indignation, and she was obliged to sleep at the front side of the bed ever after. George knew what he was about, and Martha learned it. do this of a free-trade message. The warts on his arms and the corns on his toes were involuntary and could not be helped; but he guilty of no pain, sickness or foolishness which might have Graphic sa grand old man; but Jo less inconsequential knit ting and more real business he would escape the danzer of being suspected as the mi old woman. slapped Washington on the shoulder and said hilariously * George turned 1 him and said with stern im pressiveness, “If you de th gain TN call for the poli George was not a man to be fooled with. Wuat ir D. B. Hill were to refuse to run for governor on the same ticket with Grover Cleveland ? Dear, dear. what a@ sweep our in the state of Iris Not for Mr. Blaine te y who shall or shall not kk nominated. The people rule here, and what they say verily that is going to be done. Mark that, James Gillespie! Grora D McGLYNN have come to the parting of the ways, and as each wants to take the same road and demands that the other shall take the other there must be much trouble. EDUCATION. I dove bruk de alate, an‘ de teacher don’ Your FRIEND HILL of Albany might afford to retire for four if he could not get the nomination for president this year; and in that case would his friends carry the state for Mr. Cleveland and, for in stance, William C. Grace? Not much, my son- -not much. A CONVENTION in Indiana of the Republican persuasion declares its opinion that the president talks tariff in order to put the bloody shirt out of sight. Very well. If the president wants to jump from the frying-pan into the fire it is the part of wisdom to encot him in the act. It may be true that Tammany hall 1s for Cleveland, for have we not heard that when one is smitten on one cheek he should turn tue other to the enemy ? Still, that is not characteristic of Tammany hall. comicbooks.com