Judge, 1890-08-16 · page 3 of 16
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# Analysis of Judge Magazine Page 299 This page satirizes late 19th-century American political and social issues through several cartoons and commentary sections. **"On the Rocks at Newport"** depicts wealthy socialites gossiping, with Catharine mentioning Prince George's expected visit and concerns about proper seating arrangements—mocking upper-class preoccupations. The text sections address contemporary controversies: assassination politics in South Carolina congressional elections, a governor saving a man from drowning (positioning himself as heroic), and Democratic newspaper attacks on the Lodge bill regarding Southern Democratic boycotts. **The equestrian cartoons** featuring "Miss Roorback" appear to mock a specific political figure or scandal (likely related to the "Roorback" term, historically used for political falsehoods), showing her riding mishaps with humorous captions about training and competition. The overall page reflects Gilded Age class divisions and partisan political tensions.
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CATHARINE —"' Those townspeo MARGARET—" They've heard t silk sails, like Cleopatra's.” [ WOULD be embarrassing if young Mrs, Smith should insist that her letters have only that direction, because what would the more venerable Mrs. Smith do?” yy AS ATION openly talked in a South Carolina congressional election and nobody surprised? That is very good argument for the Lodge bill, to say nothing of the assassinatiéns that have already occurred. eee E ARE PLEASED to observe that Governor Hill saved a man from drowning at Normandie recently. That is, he had a portion of the salutary rope in his power, and helped to haul the man in hand over hand. UCH LEADING Democratic papers as the Albany 7?imes and the Roches- ter Union say in effect to the southern Democratic press on the boycott question, “Hush up, you howling idiots! Don't you see we want an issue? ON THE ROCKS AT NEWPORT. ple have been sitting in that same place every evening. for a week now.” iat Prince George was expected, and she asked him just now if the galley would have HEROIC ASSISTANCE. Miss Roorasack—'* Just help me to mount, won't you Tommy?" THERE ARE comparatively few Amer- icans in China, and they can better suffer exclusion from that country than eighty millions of people can suffer the opening of our doors to five hundred millions of Chinamen, There is a little matter of protection here. HOW THEY BOYCOTTED. T IS REALLY remarkable what good sense the southern Democratic press has, The moment it found that the boy- cott business was such obvious rot that it excited the ridicule and rebuke of its friends throughout the north, it turned on its heels with such celerity that it stepped on every particle thereof. Time heals all wounds, but the bleeding afterpart of the white southern political foot is as sensitive from long injury as the shin of the south- em Ethiop. It is good sense to know when to run away, and there hasn't been such a display of that wisdom since the ride of Jefferson Davis from Richmond to Cousin Tom—" With pleasure! There you go.” his last revolutionary ditch, Cousin Tom—"1 beg ten thousand pardons, but I won the heavy- Miss“ ROORABACK:.GAril>) <-"10-0-0-6.wow:o 1? hammer-throwing handicap last week, and haven't got out of training yet,” comicbooks.com