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# Judge Magazine Page 363 Analysis This page mixes political commentary with humorous sketches. The main cartoon "Aunt Folly's Indignation" depicts a woman scolding poorly-dressed children, satirizing working-class or immigrant families—a common Judge trope mocking lower classes. The river scenes with alligators appear to reference the American South, likely mocking regional stereotypes about danger and backwardness. The text snippets offer brief editorial jabs: Bismarck criticized as dust-obsessed; De Havilland mocked as clumsily mannered; references to Roosevelt's Baptist university plans and Wyoming women's suffrage. These target contemporary political figures and progressive initiatives. The overall tone is dismissive of social reform while reinforcing class and regional stereotypes typical of Judge's late-19th/early-20th-century satirical approach—humor meant to reinforce establishment perspectives against change.
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DR JUSTIN, invent or of a dynamite- shell, has evidently con- ferred a great and last- ing benefit upon the enemy. ROTECTION with- out reciprocity would be foolishness, but not the idiocy that reciprocity would be without protection. THE TROUBL ith all strikes is that each party thinks it is a little better than the other, while the fact is that it is considerably worse. STILL, Ww in Chicago as the place for the world’s fair, The trouble now seems to be that Chi. cago doesn’t believe in herself. . believe OLD Ben (the alligator) —"' There's a feller that's struck a snag, and I think I'm in a good dinner.” A SCHOOLGIRL asks a contemporary for the plural of genius. There is no plural, d The world is just large enough for one genius at a time. STILL THINK that J. G, Blaine and B. Harrison are not going to kill each other; but perhaps the newspa- per correspondents know better. ME. BLAINE’S note advising the re- nomination of Brother McKinley was timely and sweet, and yet it has cast a gloom over the Democratic half of the McKinley district. WE SOMETIMES think that congress will be in continuous session if it is not prorogued occasionally by the queen ot somebody; and in that case it will be necessary to have the chair of the house and the sergeanteat-arms thereof under the management of the police. Grorce De Ha’ AUNT POLLY'S INDIGNATION, A ST, JOMN'S RIVER ESCAPE, THE ALLIGATOR—"I've caten some strange things in my time, but hang me if I can go a man with a face like that!” (Swims away.) (referring to an incoming yacht)—" Well, of all the clumsy, tubby, badly-manned old galleys I ever saw, she's the worst Mrs. PELLICOE (in the water)—"*You jest wait ‘till my husband comes out of his bath- house, an’ you'll see whether I'm badly manned! He'll massacree you, you dude !” _ ata cost of twenty million dollars. HE STRI —A fine and rapid as- cent, and then a long and painful effort to get to the ground grace- fully, and with an un- broken neck. ISMARCK says newspaper criticism of him is mere dust, and his only ambition now is to have a good epitaph. Has it occurred to him that that will be mere dust too? T HAS been demon- strated, we think, that when the pope rode out he kept on holy ground. Pending the investigation the world has slept merely to awake with nightmare, and men’s skulls have crept out of the grave and cocked the bones of their ears for infor- mation. Burns—"' Be gorry! av that's a log, it's movin’ fasht.” M®*: ROCKE LER says he is not going to build a Baptist university We suppose the correction is that he will im- merse his stock sufficiently to make the amount that number of billions. eee. IR EDWIN ARNOLD is to be par- doned for his remarkable affection for a woman of Japan; but an expedi- tion for his recovery, against. his will if necessary, is more necessary to civilization than those in behalf of Dr. Livingstone, George Gordon, and Emin Pasha, eae WHETHER the state of Wyoming ill send a woman to the senate of the United States is not a small ques- tion. The experiment of woman suffrage in the state may be successful and may be adopted elsewhere; and it is a start- ling fact that in many eastern states the women outnumber the men to a painful extent, comicbooks.com