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This page contains political commentary and brief satirical items rather than a single cartoon. The main illustrated piece titled "BREAKING EVEN" depicts a domestic scene where a nurse tells a man his wife is "getting on nicely" after childbirth, while he responds about his own troubles—the satire being that both spouses face difficulties simultaneously. The text items mock various political and social targets: an income tax (called "a Democratic outgo"), Senator Hill (compared to a "mugwump"), the Kaiser and Bismarck, and American versus English fashion differences. References to Wyoming women serving as jurors, a senator's unpopularity, and debates about marriage law appear, suggesting this addresses early-1900s Progressive Era politics and gender issues. The overall tone is sardonic commentary on contemporary American society and politics.

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(CHORUS by Grover and David “You kick my dog, I kick your cat.” JO MRS. PERUGINI — Dear madam, is marriage a failure, and if so which one? THE ENGLISHMAN was given to numerous tricks, and his ad- versary took them a MASY THINK that our presi- dent can best do penance by giving up his situation. BY THE MAN who was kicked out—“Another proof of the necessity of the block system.” eee ST GAUDENS believes inthe naked truth, but the govern- ment thinks it should be hidden ir a well. BREAKING EVEN. THE BEST WILL WIN. THE FIGHT between Cleveland and Hill may be called a holy struggle, whichever wins, because the main result will be a Republican gov- ernor of this state and a Republican president in 1897. Let the good fight go on, with the usual retribution for the combatant who first remarks that he has had a sufficiency. LINGUISTIC MISFITS. A CLUB in Seneca Falls calls itself the bonest fishermen’s club. Out west there is an organization called the honest horse-stealers, Which of these shocking falsehoods is the worst the reader must judge; and after that he may consider the claims of the paroxysmal paradox known as the honest Democracy. THAT UNLUCKY NUMBER. IX WYOMING a woman acted as foreman of a jury partly composed of men. The excitement in the jury-room was such that the woman gave premature birth toa child, after which a verdict was reached. The verdict is now adjudged void on the ground of the presence of a thirteenth person, and the world has a new argument against the profit and propriety of equal rights. HE IS NO INSECT. THE EFFORTS of the mugwump press to belittle Senator Hill are absurd. Whatever else may be said of Senator Hill, he is as big a man as were any of his predecessors. The long and persistent attacks of the mugwump press upon him are proof enough of that. It is a poor newspaper that wastes two-thirds of its powder on men and things that are beneath contempt. THE SUPERFLUOUS WOMAN. It IS NOTED by the Pall Mall Budget that American girls yearn for chaperons while English girls are trying to get rid of theirs. The questions of style and inde- pendence are involved. Our girls want the chaperon for exhibition, and those of England want to show that they can behave them- selves without being watched. The change speaks forcibly for English progress and American retrogres- sion. DOLE’S DANGER. THE MOST extraordinary thing about Dole’s complaining let- ter was that it should have been cee ‘THe NuRse—'* The great event is over, sir, and your wife is getting on | Pronounced extraordinary. It was HE TABERNACLE of Brook- Cy lyn makes a great mistake. It pitch ap needs to raise the wind—not the Steazitski— whirlwind. T alvays vas luggy bets." “Ho-hum! Married three-quar- GOLILOQUY by celebrated actress ters of an hour and.no divorce yet. ONGRESS is hard at work digying post-holes and burning the posts that were designed to go into them. see FOR FORTY DAYS Mr. Mitchell will deny himself the pleasure of telling how he can whip the world. MARY LEASE says she will retire and cultivate fruit. her culture a low voice and a few of the amenities. May she add to HE PRINCESS OF WALES has retired from social lif she goes there also her husband doesn’t follow her. TIS STATED that Mr. Peckham can see only one side at a time; so that he may be properly mentioned as a side-Wheeler. eas ENT AND VALENTINE are not in harmony, and many a writer of love-verses will repent in the sackcloth sent him by his sweetheart. eee THE NEWSPAPERS that give no news of prize-fights should likewise ignore great battles, which are infinitely more cruel and barbarous. But we shall not be truly good until they make the news to suit themselves. ; and where ell me qvick—I haf a bet mit mein bardner—is it a poy?” ‘ell, to tell the truth, sir, it's twins—a boy and a girl.” an t a narrow esgape! I lose on von und vin on de udder. Sponse to it was so characteristic of a plain, statement of obvious fact, and the nagging of Willis in re- southern methods as to lead to the suspicion that Willis wanted to call Dole out and shoot him. Let us hope for peace, but if Dole must die it will be better for us that he die at the hands of the queen. MATTER FOR THOUGHT. BLACK MAN down: south put himself at the head of a white lynch- ing party, and-the party followed him very willingly. The villain in this case was a white man guilty of the crime most charged against black men. The sheriff fought off the lynchers, and-now the black leader is nursing Several wounds “and swearing because the white villain is not treated as badly as the black one, There is a good deal of suggestiveness in this simple statement of a curious situation. A MARRIAGE QUESTION. LADY who was married in Hoboken would have been guilty of big- amy and ever so many mean things if the ceremony had been performed in New York; and the Troy Times finds that she cannot be punished because the federal constitution commands that “full faith and credit shall be given in each state to the public acts, records and judicial proceedings of every other state.” That provision is too infernally con- venient in a good many cases; but the question arises whether this mar- riage is not unconstitutional, or something worse, because in permitting it the state of New Jersey broke faith and credit with the state of New York, which had previously adjudicated the matrimonial status of the distin- guished personage. | j comicbooks.com