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# Judge Magazine Page Analysis This page contains several satirical pieces typical of 1880s-90s Judge magazine: **"The Mugwump Blade"**: References the political split between Cleveland supporters (mugwumps) and David Bennett Hill. The satire suggests mugwumps claim moral superiority ("Truth and Righteousness") while actually working to defeat both Cleveland and Hill—accomplishing mutual political destruction while hypocritically cloaking it in reform rhetoric. **"Shocking"**: A poem mocking an aloof Broadway dancer—a "premier absolute" and "high-kicker"—who rejects all suitors regardless of their status, position, or emotional appeals. The satire targets both the performer's haughtiness and male entitlement. **Other brief items**: Mock dry goods advertising ("Warranted all wool"), praise Tammany Hall's endorsement of a Democratic county clerk candidate, and joke about Harold Van Arsvick's embarrassing fall at a society reception requiring him to remove his coat. The page exemplifies Judge's focus on political corruption, social pretension, and New York society gossip.
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entertaining, with a spirit uncomplaining, a’ smile that onward lures you to-the highest realms of bliss, She is not a bit coquettish, and the only made up of mi ast sentimental no time she’s pettish ssures you that she cannot spare a kiss eck and quiet, and you'd swear you'd think her dict ind honey, of molasses and of mush ; you'd express would cause commotion, And you would not think it funny—such resentment in her blush. So no matter in what fashion you express your master passion, ‘You will mect with but reproaches and you'll quake with inward fear You may boast of high position, still you gain not recognition, And her stony heart's approaches can't be stormed with e’en a tear. Pray don't think me over silly when I say this maiden chilly Made me sick, and made me sicker, and to wed © the cruel persecutor! she's the premidre assolute And the champion queen high-kicker of a Broadway ballet troupe. ne she'd not stoop. THE MUGWUMP BLAD THE JUDGE. cannot give voice too often to the suspicion that the mugwumps, enraged at Cleveland’s repudiation service reform, mean to accomplish Cleveland’s de through the defeat of David Bennett Hill. Of course the political death of one means the political death of the other; and what happy mugwumpism it is that accomplishes the murder of both with an imitation dagger bearing on its blade the sweet inscription “Truth and Righteousness.” _ HEM! It looks very much as if Hill were overshadowing Cleveland considerably more than Blaine is overshadowing Harrison. odd these things a SEY 2 well How ‘TY PEOPLE perhaps it ed on a railroad and nobody to blame! Ab, n interposition of Providence to take seventy people out of a totally mismanaged world. M,, COQUELIN acts with every hair of his head ancl every nerve of his * body, and all of both are numbered and set to theatrical music as delicately as if the eye and ear of the world were noting them to find some flaw and couldn't do it. EXPRESSIONS HEARD IN DRY GOODS CIRCLES. “Warranted all wool and a yard wide.” ts with unusual wisdom in making Senator Ed- ¢ for county clerk. ‘There is not deservedly popular man in the city, and the labor clement is with him from the first to the last man, And, lo and behold! that man, though a Dem- ocrat, shall be triumphantly elected. TAMMANY HALL ward F. Reilley its candid: more A TERRIBLE Harold Van Arsvick had always been considered one of the most exquisitely dressed men in the city until at {rs. Pell's reception he tripped on those unkind stairs and— EXPOSE. It became necessary to remove his coat in the search for bruises, comicbooks.com