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# Judge Magazine Page 267 Analysis This page contains several satirical items about politics and social life, likely from the 1880s-90s (based on references to Cleveland and Harrison administrations). **"Labor-Saving"** (top cartoon): A man kneels before a wealthy woman, proposing marriage. The joke concerns courtship efficiency—he asks her to fill out blank forms to streamline his tenth proposal of the season, treating marriage proposals as bureaucratic paperwork. **"First Ladies"** section praises Mrs. Cleveland and welcomes the incoming Mrs. Harrison, celebrating First Ladies' grace and dignity across administrations. **"Coals to Newcastle"** depicts a woman annoyed that a suitor sent theater tickets to a play where she's already performing—an ironic, redundant gesture (the phrase means sending something where it's already abundant). **Brief items** below mock Silver Dollar Smith (unclear politician), praise Gladstone, and reference Sister Stryker—all light social commentary typical of Judge's satirical style.
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Miss Wic the leaders have always come from the people. No national savior as yet has been born or cradled in affluent surroundings. A reasonable intelligence would be a desirable qualification in a voter. Ignorance, either native or imported, must some time, and shortly, be a political dis- qualification. There are not only south among the negroes, but north among the whites, thousands of voters whose stu- pidity and dullness create a finite doubt if their souls be even worth the saviffy. Nothing short of divine omniscience can see in them the protoplasm of immor- tality, Yet in the hands of these, yed and swung by political adroitness, unconscious of good or evil, thrown in the balance on the one or the other side, they tip the scales of national destiny. wa FIRST LADIES. THERE IS NO MAN who doesn’t lift his hat to Mrs. Cleveland, and if there were one he would have the hat jammed over his eyes so far that he would have to take it off below the chin Welcome, however, the coming as well as the speeding guest : and the next first lady is worthy Kun over to the writing-table and you'll find some blank forms, Fill one out and send it by mail. LABOR-SAVING. Mr. Ep. Jones (the tenth in one season)—'* Miss Wick—Eveline—can 1, may I hope just a little?" COALS TO NEWCASTLE. Miss Foortitr—"' You seem to be annoyed, Fay.” . Miss Fiirs—" Lorter be. ‘That young Wollets feller we met at the Casino has just sent me tickets for the Bijou next week, an’ I'm booked for the leader of the amazons in the same play.” Did you bring me any caramels to-night ?” of all the honor that has been given the one who is passing to private life. The country will be as loyal to Mrs. Harrison and Mrs. Morton as it has been to Mrs. Cleveland ; as it was to Mrs. Garfield, Mrs. Hayes, Mrs. Grant,and the long line of charm- ing ladies, old and young, who have given grace and hospitality to the white-house from Martha Washington to this period. A COLD BLAST. IS SAD to think that Silver Dollar Smith should have triumphed in his iniquity; but the silence of the horns of the reformers is impressively funny. There is nobody so good as a professional reformer; but he should never blow his instri- ment until he has the necessary wind. THER CARROLL never carols so gaily as when Sister Stryker says she feels like a morning star. ME. GLADSTONE ought to be England and Ireland, as Paris is France: and if he lives long enough he will be. comicbooks.com