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# Judge Magazine Page 52: "Hum of the Court" This page contains brief satirical commentary and six whimsical sea-creature illustrations titled "The Shark, the Sailor and the Sea-Nymph." The text snippets mock contemporary figures and social issues: - **George F. Train**: A notorious eccentric and reformer mocked for his obsession with racing and time - **Boulanger**: Likely General Georges Boulanger, the exiled French military figure - **Lady Randolph Churchill**: The famous society figure, satirized regarding forced theater work and divorce - **Winnie Davis**: Daughter of Jefferson Davis; her broken engagement is gossiped about Social commentary targets: - Chicago medical advice (sleeping remedy) - Urban etiquette (women offering seats to men in crowded cars) - St. Louis violence ("killing for love") - Benjamin Franklin's reputation regarding illegitimate children The six numbered illustrations appear decorative rather than directly illustrating specific commentary, depicting fantastical ocean scenes with sharks, sailors, and mythological creatures.
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52 HUM OF THE COURT. T IS NOT true that George F. Train wants to arrange for another race against time. What he wants to arrange for now is a race against eternity. OULANGER as an exile is spending other peo- h great profusion and personal It is not he that is idiotic—not at all, not at all. 6] F YOU want to go to sleep quickly,” says a Chicago physician, “drink half a pint of hot water.” Hi, hello, see here, doctor! what are the other ingredients ? E FEEL SURE that if a lady were to offer a gentleman her seat in a crowded car he would say “Thank you" and continue to stand. Now is it not a poor rule that doesn’t work both ways? ADY RANDY CHURCHILL, who is a fine musician, says she could earn her living on the stage if she were forced to do so. Undoubtedly; but it would be first necessary for her to get a divorce, THE TALK that Miss Winnie Davis has seceded from her engagement with her Syracuse lover may or may not be true. If it is, the young man had better say, after Uncle Greeley, “ Erring sister, go in peace.” IGHBORHOOD OF CITY HALL. "t eat this steak.” yo" d' cut I ‘ntended fer dat ‘ man ober in d° cohner. Hit's tougher d’ bettah fer him, Kinder fits he's pol'tics.” KILLING FOR LOVE has got to be so com- mon that in St. Louis when a girl says to her ma “I have refused him ” the old lady replies, “Very well; I'll go right to work to get your shroud ready. THE ATTENTION of the affectionate heirs of the late B, Franklin is respectfully called to the fact that the Rochester Union says B. F. was “exceptionally carcless as to what children he had or who their mothers were." There ought to be a suit for damages for a determined and tolerably successful effort to break a character more than a hundred years old. aid J. Pulitzer, winking thoughtfully surveyed the IVorld building from the vicinity of the Sux office, "I guess 1 can see well enough to keep an eye out to the main chance—el Whereupon G. W. said, winking responsively, “1 must admit, Joseph, that you beat me in buildings, but what are they in comparison with my obituary poetry? JUDGE THE SHARK, THE SAILOR AND THE SEA-NYMPH. comicbooks.co i m i