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# "The May Party" - Judge Magazine Page 101 **Top Illustration:** A group of children in Victorian dress walk through countryside vegetation. The accompanying poem "The May Party" celebrates a traditional springtime children's outing, describing nature walks, games, and innocent pleasures. It references specific children by name (Jack, May, Jim, Joes, Alices) in a sentimental narrative about childhood friendships scattering over time. **Lower Content:** The page contains various satirical political and social commentary pieces typical of Judge magazine, including critiques of government policies, banking practices, and social hypocrisy. References include General Butler, David B. Hill, and other contemporary political figures, though specific historical context for these references would require additional period documentation. The overall tone blends nostalgic Americana with sharp social criticism characteristic of late 19th-century American satire.
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HE NEED of education in China is startlingly apparent. When I contemplate the ignorance and depravity of those pig-tailed high binders it makes me sick.—Henry W, Blair. eee sé] OST, STRAYED, OR STOLE: advertises -the Vorce —“ the national conscience.” So that's what the Democratic party is going around surreptitiously loaded with, is it? sae oe IF THE W TH of the world were equally distributed,” says the Saratogian, “who'd shovel snow?" We have often thought of that, and have as frequently nominated David B. Hill. cee THE OPINION prevails that General Butler had as much right in that court as Judge Carpenter. There was no expressed contempt of court, and there was unprovoked and most im- proper contempt of Butler. eee UR GOVERNOR saw the other day in a news- paper the heading “ Hill's Stealings,” and im- mediately exclaimed angrily, “I never did it—it was another man!" And sure enough it was—the late John T. Hill of the ninth national bank. eae R. TRAIN is on his way around the world “to escape a revolution in this country.” Inas- much as George is to be gone only fifty-five days, the revolution must revolute with extraordinary rapidity, and nobody knows where it is going to come from. A MODERN iNSTANCE, LITTLE GIRL playing one day in her father's grounds fell into a stream which passed through the estate. No human being was near to save her from drowning. But a small pony, says School and Home, which had become a pet in the family and of which the children, who had often rode on him, were especially fond, was grazing near by. This is the modern “credit.” It is awkward if not used with discretion. School and Home may have been a pet in the family, and the children may have often “rode” it; but how curious it is that it should have happened to be grazing near by. The proper way to do that kind of “crediting,” bad as it is, is easy enough if the man who does it knows how to earn his salary. DELIVER US FROM TEMPTATION. A BANK PRESIDENT not long dead has been found on investigation to have been a defaulter fo the extent of nearly half a million. He was so Su. (referring to lady just passed) —"* My gracious ! THE MAY PARTY. HROUGH by-path and through avenue They make their merry way, With laugh and song and trifling word, To celebrate the May. ‘The robins call, the swallows chaff, The time they spend in play; And hedgeways put their blossoms out, The while the tree-leaves sway. Some dozen years will come and go And find Jack on the ocean, While little May, demure and shy, At home will skip commotion ; The Jims and Joes and Alices, School-fellows blithe and true, All scattered like to thistledown Since when the fall winds blew, And never in that coming time Will all these come together " To dance and sing and play old games, Whate'er the month or weather. But Jack will come to find his May, And Jim his girl in wife-time ; By twos they'll go the wide world through, For all a merry life-time. honest that nobody ever suspected him and his accounts were examined merely as a matter of form. ‘The civil-service gospel says, “ Keep in office those who have done well in office ;” but few men who are long in office and never watched have the strength to resist temptation. Paste this on your eye-glass, It is an important truth whose truthfulness is demon- strated every day. BELIEVE THE WORST. EAVEN HELP the woman who is suspected of insanity. The criti- cism that follows her words and actions always insists that she must be crazy. Let her be passionate and she is mad. Let her be cool and calm and that is evidence of the cunning of the insane mind. Let her say that the sun shines or the day is dreary and the newspaper expert cries out that never were such insane sentences spoken before. Miss Dickinson always was suspicious and odd, but she must not be so now or she will lose her liberty. A REPROOF. Wasn't she dressed! Did you notice?” Hx —'*No; but I should have done so if she had not been,” comicbooks.com