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# Judge Magazine Political Satire, Page 216 This page contains multiple brief satirical commentaries typical of Judge magazine's format. The top illustration shows a rural visitor from Massachusetts pestering a wealthy shoe merchant with unwanted familiarity and church excursion plans—mocking social climbing and commercial opportunism. The "Hum of the Court" section offers quick political jabs: references to actress Lillie Langtry (a contemporary celebrity), Democrat electoral struggles, Mayor Gould Hewitt's political ambitions, and figures like Anthony Stanton and Belva Lockwood (early women's suffrage advocates, apparently mocked for their dress choices). The crude caricature studies labeled "An Expressive Study" appear to exaggerate facial features, though their specific targets aren't identified in the text. Other items satirize President Benjamin Harrison's family legacy, Grover Cleveland's "tanning," and various social absurdities of the era (Alaskan mosquitoes, Cincinnati suicides). The humor relies heavily on era-specific references now requiring historical context to decode fully.
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THE PLEASURES OF A COTTAGER. Visiron (from Fitchburg, Mas ver} —"* Proud ter see yer, sir. L ain't hed a chance ter press yer hand sence 1 bought that las’ bill of goods of yer. Marthy, this 1s the gent that I tuy my shoes of for th’ store. Oug church is havin’ a Ieetle excursion half rates—and [ took the lib'ty of bringin’ the folks Fight ter your house, Ain't this HUM OF THE COURT. WE DON'T know yet where Mrs, Langtry is going to summer, bu we wish she would, HERE ARE. not many Democrats at the watering-places this year. They ger y theirs mixed. MAYOR HEWITT wants no office, but it makes him mad to THE vounc cror speaks with entire confidence of “my uni- that nobody is going to give it to him, verse,” “my hemisphere moon,” and “my stars,” with occas GTANTON, Anthony and Blake repudiate elva Lockwood ; so we sional allusions to * my heavenly Father.” . Ss TOP CALLING me Frankie!" says 3 FE. MAY not be the greatest of proverb- suppose Belva has a tailor-made dress. Frankie Cleveland, and) we think : makers, but it never pours but it s0 too, y rains, AMONG THE CRIMES of the heated | term we must never forget the one re- ‘ ‘ q an and John L., Sullivan— cently consummated at St. Louis. , /} blows his nose and the other knows his blows, DOd'E BE GRIEVED, Benjamin Harri- : UESTIONS OF STATE may not be in son, After all, it is no disgrace for a : Grover's line; but we must-admit, in man to have had a distinguished father and view of his lucky purchase of Red Top. grandfather. he’s posted on questions of real estate HE MAN in St. Louis who wants a house y HE MOSQUITO of Alaska bites only made entirely of malleable glass ought A GS cold weather, They want that kin to wait until his neighbors build that kind of 7 (f Dy insect in New Jersey, because then the mean house too. Let us have peace M s little wretch can kill off only the natives. G, CLEVELAND had a grandfather too: y A GIRL ought to be able to make gord * but they never pitch into him, though bread ; but she ought to. be made to eat he and Grover's pa were, after all, the Bur- the experimental article leading up to th; chardest Burchards of them all f sult, and in that case, by Jove! she'll MBS. BEX HARRISON is the hand- FOUR FAMILIES of Cincinnati claimed somest middle-aged woman in Indiana, ‘ j the body of a suicide, and the rest of the and if that is treason to the rest of the sex 3 s population wept beczuse it couldn't have a there let ‘em make the least of it corpse and a sensation too, Blood will tell COUSIN BEN'S eave of absence has - : [PIS NOT true that Brother Cleveland has lasted ninety days instead of the thirty had his skin tanned by this broiling sun allotted to it; but we don't apprehend any but he will doubtless experience the unplea international complications and_ he’s a nice ness about the time the sun ceases to bro: young man, SHINGTON has a woman's bicye! THERE ARE THREE. persons in the : e club, and if the club ever goes out «1 Tombs who have got to be hanged; yj . S dress-parade there will be such an adjourt but they can at least thank their stars that j ment of congress as will make the natio ¢ not running for office on the Demo- amg 3} f head swim. A NOMAN in Mississippi fell into ¢ NT writes us, speak- i water, and not only didn’t drown by ing of a bad political man, "Give him WATERMELON ¢ ae cant a d fish in her bustle We can't, dear sir, We are so poor It isn’t much of a story. The only wonder that we haven't a fit left—there isn’t one in is that, being @ pretty as well as a determined all our meats. AN EXPRESSIVE STUDY. woman, she didn't land a whale, comicbooks.com