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This page from Judge magazine contains multiple satirical pieces targeting contemporary politics and society (circa 1880s-90s). **"Ladies and Women"** mocks the fashion obsession of working-class women (salesladies, maids, cooks) who dress extravagantly in silks and velvets, while the wealthy women they serve dress plainly. The satire critiques both the aspirational vanity of workers and the irony of servant excess. **"Off Milton Point"** is a humorous dialogue between a sportsman and rower (Rooney, rendered in Irish dialect), where the rower admits he'd rather be the duck they're hunting than continue their disastrous rowing expedition. **"Hum of the Court"** contains brief political jabs: references to Saratoga gamblers, the Brooklyn murderer Melvaine, Ohio Democrats' tariff reform debate, and Sir Edwin Arnold's travels. These are topical one-liners targeting current events and public figures. **"Borrowed Style"** depicts someone borrowing formal attire—satirizing class pretension and fake respectability. The overall tone is lighthearted mockery of contemporary social foibles, politics, and fashion trends.

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LADIES AND WOMEN. HE SALESLADY shines in a silken at tire, The price of scant comfort and long-boarded hire; The chamber-maid lady in garments of white And ribbons of scarlet appeals to the sight ; ‘The bluest of plushes the cook-lady shows, And fills up the sidewalk wherever she Roe And even the wash-lady proudly steps by In velvetcen rufiles that startle the eye ; While the woman they wait upon goes about town In a plain little, brown little, tailor-made gown. A SERIAL, VE dews were falling, A gentle western breeze, ‘The breath of lowers recalling, Played round beneath the trees. ‘The moon in silver splendor Rose proudly o'er the sea, And shone in radiance tender Upon my love and me. We leaned across the wicket That summer-night divine, And there within a thicket Tasted her to be mine. OFF MILTON POINT. Her eyes through teardrops glistened— I hoped she was not vexed— She answered as I listened — (Continued in our next) SvortsMAN —"* Scull faster, man! What are you thinking of 7" Rooxey —"* Well, sor, be th’ condition we're in an’ th’ way youse hov been shootin’ Oi wor t'inkin’ Oi'd like t' be thot duck,” HUM OF THE COURT. THE GAMBLERS of Saratoga have been taken to Trask E. MUST not expect too much from the Teutonic in her rivalry with the City of Paris, because she is apparently the weal . PROVERB When she's convinced against her will there's nothing that MEILVAINE, the Brooklyn murderer, says "the jg i up." Not quit, , ‘The hangman has yet to ofliciate ter of the ceremony. TRAMP says he lives where he can hang up his hat, evidently re- HE DEMOCRAT can keep her still. of Ohio declare that tariff reform is the issue of the hour, The late national election furnished proof that the thing so. HE LISH syndicate business shows that the cousins are as wills called was totally without issue. ing to drop their dollars as their h’s. ferring to his accounts. e of Wales than the SEEMS TO most people that Sheriff Flack can't do his entire duty un- aiser, because the former is his brother-in-law straight, while the lat- til he locks up Sheriff ter is mere considerably distant relative. THE FRENCH have done a good thing for our inventor; but for a number of years back in mentioning W. HOLMES has seen his PA 5 xe the great men of the country no- OW HOLES as sen ROS MCLUSIVERY Seem tee am smile on his lips is as young as it Ae oe OR. was fifty years = “a i N EXCHANGE says gleefu CAMPBELL of Ohio, nominee | : 4 ji in Tanners Gnvihis last legs for governor, has a barrel so ! : GZ ’ Unhappily Tanner was on his last large and so full that the plank in 5 ‘au legs during the rebellion, owing to his platform against trusts seems a a iN: AWW OG some of the same kind of politic mliee MD } aaa) shots that are being fired at him now, THE QUARRELS of states- ny ne men and tyrants all men are K jj S!R EDWIN ARNOLD comes anxious to shed their blood—all ‘ Y z = | to America mostly for the pur- men but the men who make the xe pose of seeing Canada and going quarrels. home by way of China and Japan. ITH ENGLAND, Germany, hi > i C) Sir Edwin evidently has as much V ND, 1 ! \ k d for the dark of America as and Austria he has for the light of Asia. the Bulgaria business there isa ales fair prospect for peace until those [ft] y aM . RS. MAYBRICK, according to powers fall out—say for about five ‘ f d *N* the logic of the commutation minute (Ail A 3 of lier sentence, only half killed her JUSTICE FIELD says with em- i y ; husband, Now if that man can be phasis that Porter Ashe is an } : yy resurrected within a reasonable peri- unmitigated Ashe, or rather a liar ye: « : aps he will testify that she of that kind, This looks rash, but jipifh \ ' Ba fli didn’e kill him at it seems to be nothing to Porter 5 Mr. Ashe. ye has the forehead HE LEADERS of the Demo- NI N of Daniel Webster, it must be in- cratic party never believed in sisted that he lacks the cavernous protection. They opposed it tooth eyes, the physique, and the blue and nail when’ Jeff. Davis and BORROWED AS UELE: . coat with brass buttons of the *Dem's preddy loud, efen fer y company went to work to disrupt AWRENS—-"* Vell, Tkey,tsince der old man’s been avay T hef_ worn eflery Massachusetts statesman, And the union, oder pair in der shdore, unt I vant to maig a ch weal, ain’el 107 perhaps his hair. comicbooks.com