Judge, 1889-08-03 · page 3 of 16
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# Judge Magazine Political Commentary Page This page from *Judge* contains several short satirical pieces targeting political and social figures of the era. **"On the Road"** depicts a coaching party, satirizing pretentious social climbing—a man of humble background (De Courcey Walsingham Grubb) hires an ornate vehicle, forgetting his lower-class origins may be exposed. **"Shaking Him"** shows a flirtation between a man and woman, with social commentary on courtship rituals. The remaining items mock specific targets: the Earl of Fife (apparently facing financial scrutiny), Lady Colin Campbell (likely involved in a divorce scandal), and Democratic politics. References to "salt river" and Cleveland suggest Democratic Party infighting. The "boodle trials" mention anti-corruption proceedings, with *Judge* sardonically noting that trial costs exceed stolen amounts. Overall, the page reflects *Judge's* focus on lampooning upper-class pretension, political corruption, and contemporary scandals through brief, pointed jabs rather than sustained narrative.
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ON THE ROAD. (lr, De Courcey Walsingham Grubb, in hiring a tallycho for his coaching having been let before to a more plebeian crow arty, forgets the possibility of ite Gastiy —"' Git on t’ der Brighton beach speclers, Jimmy gathers a crowd and profit, No mistake must be made in properly con- sidering the chances of a complete success. London is as one-sided to Great Britain as Paris is to France, It is not the geographical centre, so much as the centre of convenience and commercial gravity, that should be the element of estimate. New York city, so busy as to be indifferent as to events that would make epochs in any other place—New York, almost heedless of holidays revered elsewhere, must shake itself from its torpor to the magnitude and magnifi- cence of its opportunity. No effort has shaped itself into complete definite- ness. The imperial city, affluent in the wealth of its position, may delusively dream that “the gods help those" who will not help themselves. Its press, with one united voice, calls to its laggard citizens to grasp the prize that other and wiser hands are eager to reach, Gain and glory would go palm in palm. A million or two, or three, of strangers, partaking of its cheer and purchasing in its marts, would weave and leave a mesh of gold and silver threads. The whole world would send its best contributions of art and skill. Ingenuity, enterprise, and discovery have taken vast strides in the decade and a half since the glass domes covered the wonders of the Phila- delphia centennial. Has the blood of Rip Van Winkle been transferred down the Hudson, hypnotizing Manhattan isl- and? Is this great city so in love with itself, with its streets of palaces, its un- equaled parks, its boulevards along its renowned rivers, and its very skirts em- broidered by the beautics of islands and sea, that it forgets to show its charms to and the world? Awake from introspection and selfish dreams! Hold out your hand to the crowning effort and blossom and fruit of all the joint centennials of the time, its own cousin: ba THE ABLEST Democratic paper is the Times. \t is ardent for Cleveland, and hopes to bring him back from Salt river to give him a place on the’ river Jones, fine morning like this. Miss Loxwety — (He kepton.) SHAKING HIM. RY —"Do you mind if T join you in the stroll, Miss If there's anything I can't bear to do it’s to loaf on a 'm so sorry for you. distance and was just going to sit down and read for an hour.” THE EARL OF FIFE doesn't want an appropriation for 1. for that reason the English people have one. eee SINGULAR, isn’t it, that women who are most frequently annoyed by dudes and things of that kind find it extremely difficult to ac- count for the absence or other whereabouts of their alleged husbands? [T MIGHT be well for Lady Colin Campbell to write a novel; but if she were to give her autobiography that would go like wildfire, even if she told only half the truth— which, to be sure, is a good deal of truth in her case. Hise, and re probably anxious he should eee IS AN END of the boodle trials, and now the local authorities can begin to steal again, However much may be stolen, the loss cannot equal that arising from the trials, to say nothing of the humiliation, It is a first-rate period HERE RS of West Virgini ed themselves be had tired of being unmarried. mighty lucky thing for their husb: that they weren't married, They would given the Two SPIN: sisters, a deal of troubl ‘JRE DEMOCRA‘ ants in the other party continue to be dissatisfied with the course of the president, and they are so loud at the mouth in their explosions that almost any kind of disaster may be predicted with the utmost case. and their assist- eae SOME OF THE PREACHE Charleston, S. C., are preaching murder, and especially against. Murderer McDow. Perhaps good will come out of the assassination of Editor Dawson, but we must expect nothing of that kind in that part of Arkansas which is re- sponsible for the murder of John M, Clayton, T've walked a long comicbooks.com