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# Analysis of Judge Magazine Page 51 The top illustration, "Prior to the Proposal," depicts a wealthy social gathering where women discuss athletic pursuits and romantic sentiments, satirizing upper-class social conventions. The lower section, "His Own Particular Style," shows two separate street scenes featuring working-class men (Mr. Caliber and Mr. Chokes) in comedic interactions. The dialogue suggests class-based humor about fashion mishaps—one man's "four-button cutaway" coat malfunction and another's misunderstanding about a "cataway" garment. The intervening text discusses various social topics: Democratic newspaper readership, girls sleeping on love-letters, Samuel J. May (an abolitionist), survival of the fittest philosophy, women's costume conventions, and a hotel name change from "Columbia" to avoid Italian associations. Overall, the page blends high-society satire with working-class humor, typical of Judge's appeal to diverse American readers in its era.
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PRIOR TO THE PROPOSAL. We're all athletic in our family. Sally is an A 1 fencer, Molly is superb with the clubs, and even mamma puts up the dumb-bell: GARRISON (lo himself) —"T IVES OF MEN who read Democratic news to learn of the invention of a high papers will be pleased ful snore-preventer, INNIE, daughter of Jefferson Davis, will marry a nephew of Samuel J. May, abolitionist. The whirligig of time makes ‘all things even. es health, LAW of the survival of the fittest is still in fore ‘ram, and we notice ourselves that Mr. Sullivan ys the s in good E BLOOMERS, who invented the costume of that name, have just golden wedding. ‘This shows how easy it is to avoid trouble when your wife he pantaloons. ER of Boston says no farmer can be suce n hours a day. If that is the case it is a fair question whether success is to be coveted as much as failure. If the farmer works his jackass to that extent the beast knows enough to die. ssful who doesn’t ish I knew whether your old dad could put up the ‘rocks. SOME GIRLS, it is said, are now sleeping on pillows stuffed with old love-letters. It is a pity to treat honest sentiment in that way. Why don’t they save them to curl their bangs with ? susie THE GOVERNMENT had the services of Samuel J. Randall a great many years, and now his widow and daughter are provided for by virtue of a numerously signed subscription-paper. THE CONVENTION of working-girls in this city was able and business-like, and we should like to see the convention of men that could do more talking or do it better. And in this remark we do not forget our wise friend Senator Blair. UR GOOD FRIEND Colonel Shepard wants the name of a hotel changed because it was named after the country residence of a rebel. Our good friend doesn’t go far enough. We ought to drop the name Columbia because it came from an Italian; to say nothing of the name America, that originated with the gentleman who first clapped eyes on these enraptured shores. . HIS OWN PARTICULAR STYLE. Mr. Cainer (of Deadwood, on his return from Chicago) —"* How does my four-button cutaway hit y i Mx. Cuokes (is partner)—" That ain‘t a cutaway, Bill.” Mr. Cartner (removis of a tailor wanted t' cut drops on me, wouldn't 1?" his ulster) —"* You bet it is! Th’ fool coyote ‘away in front, Nice fix I'd been in fer sudden comicbooks.com