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This page from Judge magazine contains brief satirical commentary on contemporary social and political issues, circa late 19th century. **Key satirical items:** - **King Luis of Portugal's widow**: Mocks the wealthy widow receiving a substantial pension ($64,000 yearly) while claiming emotional distress—commentary on unearned aristocratic privilege. - **Sir Walter Raleigh**: References a historical figure allegedly known for drunken behavior and profanity, using him as a type for misbehaving gentlemen. - **Prince Murat and Miss Caldwell**: Satirizes the American heiress phenomenon—wealthy young American women marrying European nobility. The joke suggests both parties are better off *not* marrying. - **Bottom cartoon ("Right Down to a System")**: Shows an art editor interviewing a new artist. The exchange mocks both pretentious editorial gatekeeping and an artist claiming originality while obviously copying predecessors ("I done it all myself"). The cartoons consistently target wealth, pretension, and social hypocrisy of the Gilded Age.

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88 HUM OF THE COURT. Son 3 of the car-driver— “Listen to my tale of whoa. THE WIDOW of King Luis of Portugal gets $64,000 a year and is almost heart-broken. ADVICE is given, * Never go to bed with cold feet.” Far better to get a divorce, we suppose. ZN BUTLER says he has told nothing but the truth in his book. He is too frank, The statement will spoil the sale of the book. THERE IS this difference. The average man and vorce without ‘as the actors & ; orwa stig lard ately get publicity without divorce, {TWard and see what a perfect face the Sue—** Don't they CULBERTSON — ITH A bankrupt son- fect than yours, sy dea in-law and a bankrupt daily newspaper Mr. C. P, Huntington stands a chance to run to empty= ings himself. A GHOST in West Gloucester, Mass., has a bad cough, and is so mad because it has no place to put a dose of quinine in that it frequently swears you Mu And postpone ! T never forget that if you do not vote you cannot register. you had better see to it that your friends do it too. Do not A’ ACTRESS in this town combed her hair before a mirror on Hallow- een and saw six of her old husbands, all of whom were living. She was somewhat confused. ’. MR. SAVAGE, the missionary who has been killed in New 1, ought to have known better than to attempt instruction of IR WALTER RAL in the habit of fi rible profanity. GH, according to the Philadelphia Press, was 1g intoxicated, and using the most hor- INVESTIGATIVE. 0 is not quite sure of Miss Willing als make in the centre of the grate.” s (they're real diamonds in her ears after ali)—but no more per- (And cards are out for June.) DAILY is getting sug- gestions as to the best way to keep a husband at home evenings. In some cases the best way is to have the wife go out and call on the neighbors. 'HE LAW decides that the wires shall remain up until certain points are de- cided by the law. That means that the ground shall be so occupied with corpses that there will be no room in it for the wires. TAKES unusual courage to visit a graveyard at night,” says an’ exchange. Pshaw! we know of plenty of persons who have been in graveyards a hundred years and haven't uttered the first. whimper. RESENTLY the oppo- nents of Mr. Blaine will begin to show, as an argu- ment in behalf of his present ill-health, that when he was an infant he had no teeth and as he grew he had severe attacks of croup, colic and measles. T’S A MIGHTY good thing that Prince Murat didn’t get Miss Cald- well, and a mighty good thing that the lady didn’t get the prince. Both are to be congratulated, and heaven help the man and woman who eventually do marry them. ey T fnancial standing) —"* Just lean warm atmosphere into a colder one keep the mouth closed,” says a rule of health, See, Corporal Tanner? And when going from any atmosphere into any other, or remaining in cither of the same, do the same thing. HE, BUSINESS of purchasing foreign princes is quite promising. For instance, one prince refuses an income of $10,000 a year, and another prince gets $10,000,000 to start with. The princes come high, but the ‘American heiress thinks she must have them, A YOUNG WOMAN in Pennsylvania has lost her mind because a novel she had written was refused by the publishers. Judging from the kind of novels that young women write just now, she is quite fortunate, because she might better lose her mind than her respectability. / RIGHT DOWN TO A SYSTEM. New Ruwexs— Owv Evite! I done it all myself, an’ I've got lots more delighted to see you, sir, Step right in here. comicbooks.com