Judge, 1889-03-02 · page 3 of 28
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# Page 331: Judge Magazine Political Satire This page celebrates the departing **Mrs. Frances Folsom Cleveland**, wife of President Grover Cleveland. The poetic tribute (top) honors her grace and dignity during her time as First Lady, treating her departure as a dignified end to a successful "reign." The prose section praises both Clevelands for their courtesy and entertainment value, noting Mrs. Cleveland's particular success despite her youth and inexperience—a significant achievement for a young woman in that role. The lower cartoon satirizes **John Wanamaker** (prominent merchant/postmaster general), joking that even his inferior products are overpriced. A brief jab targets the **Electoral College**, suggesting that while it failed to endorse Harrison and Morton's wives for beauty/popularity, the women will appear anyway—implying the College's opinion is irrelevant. The bottom cartoon shows a woman in full dress, joking about women adopting men's fashion innovations (knickerbocker suits), reflecting contemporary debates about women's dress reform.
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Her reign was o'er, but old and young Prayed blessings on her as she passed, And every heart and every tongue Her gracious smile, with smiles obeyed, Ter dignity by naught abused, The: only powers she used, What greater are there ? Will hold such sway again, national gladness in again witnessing the free-trade English evacuation of the country. ba THE CLEVELANDS. [7 MUST be said of the Clevelands that they have given the public all the courtesy and entertainment within their power, and with the utmost good will. ‘The president has always been amiable so far as might be judged. Hi Rose Elizabeth, made very many friends as mistress of the whit y confining her intellectual eccentricit to her book. The advent of Mrs. Cleveland made a new era, an impro ment on a very good one, and one which ‘ought to have had another term. No man or woman living .has a harsh thought or word for this young woman, and it is in every mind that she has done a marvelous thing, in view of her inexperience, in succeeding so well. Long live sister, are the sceptres she has swayed, None more sure ‘To rule the hearts of other men, And these she held, and no heart truer, Spake, ‘* Ne'er was she surpassed.” Her reign passed by in merry dearth Of sadness, and her written fame Must live as long as woman's worth Gives grace to woman's name, For love full well of high and low, With smiling lips and graceful mien, She stepped from her white portico Uncrowned, but still a queen! Frances Folsom Clevels plainness of speech and action of the man of her choic the going, and now welcome to the That speed to guests ! JOHNS WANAMAKER has no bad habits. Even those he sells are worth ‘all the money he asks for them. THERE IS to be a good supply of ice after all. Lots of office-seekers think there is enough in the shoulder of Ben Harrison to last all summer, 'f a TORAL COLLEGE failed to pronounce for Mrs. Harri- son and Mrs, Morton; but they will be there just the same, and what one lacks in beauty and popularity—as if cither of them could !—the other will supply. THOSE KNICKERBOCKER FULL DRESS SUITS. Miss VAN Prystew VAN RINGE (lo ler brother just before the reception) Don't look so astonished, Tom! I don’t sce why I shouldn't innovate a little as well as you.”