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# Analysis of Judge Magazine Page 237 The top cartoon, "What Fifth Avenue Trade Is Coming To," satirizes New York's wealthy elite. Mrs. Morrisania complains to Mr. De Provost Smit-Smit (labeled "the artistic decorator") about ordering items for her house. The joke mocks the pretentious language and affectations of both wealthy clients and decorators—she notes that "ordered" is "hardly good form" in their social circle, preferring euphemistic language befitting aristocratic manners. The remaining text columns discuss contemporary political and social issues: Republican nomination politics, British investment in American enterprise, Cuban tax problems, and debates about Black workers' employment rights. These are opinion pieces rather than comics, reflecting Judge's satirical commentary on 1870s-80s American society and politics.

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Mks, MORRISANIA, WHAT FIFTH AVENUE TRADE IS COMING TO. “*1 ordered some goods sent to my house yesterday and they haven’t"— Mk. De Provost Sarr-ssir (the esthetic decorater)—" Kindly say ‘requested,’ madam ; ‘ ordered’ is hardly good form as applied to our house, you know.” HARMONY THE QUARR be Republi WITH KNIVES. between Hill and Cleveland m in in ‘92, no matter which man get no matter whether it skips both and goes to the west. ans that the fe will s the nomination and A Democratic fight is generally to the knife, and this is an open unpleasantness with the blades drawn and the revolver in the boot. stand a better chance in ‘92 than he stood in ‘88, and congress his chances will be improved, riod of Republican rule, and the bo The Republican nominee will wise action in There is going to be a long pe- in the cold are carving each other and otherwise exercising muscle and jaw to keep warm. OUR OFFICIAL ARISTOCRACY, ‘ THE TIME comes that a man can’t hold office because he s been “in trade” we had better adopt the English ci system altogether. Let men be ed- ucated to office-holding; fet it be understood that their sons shall have their places as the same be- come vacant, and let the shop men be confined to the plebeians who exist outside of society and without the privilege of drawing the s of the offices whose existence they pay for. That is civi form according to the opponents of John Wanamaker, whose success as a merchant necessarily unfits him for the rights, the privileges and the glory of office-holding. laries ervice re- HOW SHALL BLACK MEN LIVE? in a machine-shop napolis has followed the employment therein of a black man, Has the black a right to live? If he has it follows that he must have the right to work. If he is fit to do better than scavenger FILIAL EMULATION. “Now thin, Jamesey ; play you wor your father, an’ ‘ump thot bafe-shteak good an’ tinder.” Mas, FALLAHAN work he ought to be gratified in his ambition to do it, Is it proper that any man or organization should have the power to select his kind of labor ? I it is he is likely to be driven from the very ditch by the imported Italian or Irishman, who are not nearly as good Americans as he. northern localities just as intolerant with regard to black men tion of the south. It is well to bear that in mind occasionally. There are s any por- EDRO and his son-in-law are quarreling about the extinct throne of Brazil. They had better be careful or they'll make themselves as ridiculous as the claimants to the throne of France. RITISH GOLD is buying up American energy and enterprise. Gold can go where powder and cannon are prohibited, but we shall get along well enough until it buys up the government of the United States. Mcatils TER gave a better ball for fifteen thousand dollars than the centennial committee gave for ten times that amount. There is more than a little in those figures, but the committee are too proud and too busy to bring it out. CUBAN tax-payers have been robbed to such an extent that the holder of the funds runs away with seven hundred thousand dol- lars. We should think there wouldn't be as much of them left as their picked and marrowless bones KATE FIELD intimates that heaven is heaven because there is no marriage there, Must we therefore hold that marriage is wrong, or merely that it is neces- sary to have a heaven for the ac- commodation of people who result from that iniquity ? comicbooks.com