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# Analysis of Judge Magazine Page The main cartoon depicts a **ballot-box confusion scene** illustrating the "Confusion of the Ballot" article. It shows multiple figures struggling with voting materials—one woman appears bewildered while men gesture animatedly around ballot boxes and papers. The satire concerns a **Connecticut clergy controversy**: local clergy mixed religion with voting, causing women to vote unusually broadly. The cartoon mocks the resulting chaos and "unnecessary hard feeling," suggesting that mixing religious authority with electoral participation produced confusion and poor judgment. The surrounding brief items target various figures: Maurice Jokai (Hungarian novelist), Joaquin Miller (poet seeking Hawaiian political office), and commentary on women's suffrage, Bismarck, and American politics. The overall tone satirizes political incompetence and social disorder.
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xmaxo GILLAM, W. J. Arwett. 1 ‘ditor. ‘M. Geecory, PUBLISHED ONCE A WEEK. TERMS TO SUBSCRIBERS. UNITRD STATES AND CANADA IN ADVANCR. One copy, one year. or s2 numbers - $500 One copy, six months, or 26 numbers - 2.50 ‘One copy. for thirteen weeks = = 1.25 2 Inclading the Cwxistsias Juve. FOREIGN SUBSCRIPTIONS=To all foreign countries in the postal union, $0.00 year. THE JUDGE PUBLISHING COMPANY (Jupce BUILDING: Corner Fifth Avenue and Sixteenth Street, New York. Be 7. notify the public that the use of JUDGE in local advertising sch inserting advertising pares between ite leaves is a direct violation of the publishers’ rights under the copy- right law, and all copies of JUDGE are sold upon the express condition that they will not be used for such purpout. No one is authorized by the publishers to use JUDGE in this ud they will take prompt measures to stop anybody from so using their paper is hereby given that the United States circuit court has recently granted an injunction restraining the use of JUDGE in that way. JUDGE PUBLISHING COMPANY, 110 Fifth avenue, New York. {27 NOTICE TO PUBLISHERS.—The contents of Juvce are protected by copy: right in both the United States and Great Britain. Infringement of this copyright will be promptly and vigorously prosecuted, Q STION to young lady engaged to an actor—When do you expect to be killed? eee T IS JUST possible that England and France will carry their threats of war into Africa, toe HE KAISER wants it understood that if it is necessary to use Bismarck unkindly he can do it himself, © 2gs LL CHINESE SOLDIERS are emissa- ries of peace, and present their backs in token of harmonious designs. eee F BISMARCK doesn’t want to be killed with kindness he will have a birthday hereafter only once in five year: [8 HIS VISIT to Mr. Cleveland the other day Mr. McKinley inspected the white- house as closely as if he contemplated some repairs. DON'T KNOW who will hold the Republican banner in ‘ninety-six, but they have begun to call Governor Morton the grand old man. see EAKS FRENCH like a Paris- ys Jules Simon of the kaiser. If he does he is continually destroying Ger- 7 Isaacstet: many with his active mouth. you, Coben eee on THE PRINCE OF WALES is showing a preference for American women that is giving great offense to English beauties. To the American women too, we trust. vas a total loss.”” S*THEY DON'T READ, they don’t think, they don’t study,” says Phoebe Couzins, speaking of American women. Well, dear child, they don’t quarrel with themselves and everybody else, either. ATOR MULLIN, who wants to drive tights off the stage. is re- minded that there is such a thing as being too infernally excellent. What's the use of dying in order to be good ? THE QUESTION seems to be whether lewdness for the sake of lewd- ness is necessarily art. The persons who are making money out of living pictures care very little about it, and the audiences who encourage them have for the most part as little consideration for art as they have for morality. NE REVOLUTION in Cuba lasted seven years, oF as long as it took us to drive the British out of this country. The Cubans deserved success as much as we did, and they fought as well. It is gratifying that Spain desires fraternal relations with the United States, but heaven ought to line up against the heavier battalions some time and in some way. “Vas peesniss prightening up any mit * Prightening up? Vell, you could see dot glare ohf dot shtore lasd nighd fur most a mile, unt she A FIGHTING PEACEMAKER. MAURICE JOKAL, the Hungarian novelist, says he will cheerfully pay much greater taxes if tae nations will disarm : but if his fatherland and his king are attacked he will take his gray head to some place where it may be destroyed by their pestiferous enemies. This seems to contem- plate a state of war as the unavoidable result of a condition of peace. A STATE OF WAR. JOAQUIN MILLER wants to capture the Dole government of Hawaii. He says it is composed of thieves and tyrants, and that the number of its political prisoners is dangerously large. Mr. Miller is naturally on the side of the under dog. being a poet; but we don’t believe things will be settled in Hawaii until, through some convulsion of nature, Hawaii itself goes about ten feet underground. LAW. MB: GIBBS of Buffalo was waylaid and shot dead by two persons, and those persons have gone to prison for manslaughter and murder in the second degree. After such a verdict as that Mr. Gibbs ought to have an early resurrection, He must have been only half killed. He should Meet those persons at the prison-door when they are pardoned, and thank them that they didn’t make him die all over. CONFUSION OF THE BALLOT, THE CLERGY of Bridgeport, Connecti- cut, mixed religion with a local election, and in consequence women voted very gen- erally. The result was about as it would have been had only men voted, but there was a good deal of unnecessary hard feeling. It might be advisable, if women are to vote, to prohibit the religious idea, for therein is great danger; but that might result in prohibiting the pulpit its very self. STOP THAT! TATTOOING has become a fad among leading women of London, according to some imaginative writer who may, after all, be a liar, We are told that one lady has a ser- pent on her arm, and others have banners on various parts of the body. Heretofore the tattooed fool has been exclusively of the other sex. Are we to believe that the progress of woman includes the idiocy as well as the raiment of the other sex? SCIENCE AS A DANGER. M, GROUSSIER of Paris has created the * profoundest impression by his claim to the discovery of an infallible scientific method for tracing paternity. The protests gainst it are very numerous, and the alarm commensurate with the quantity. Years ago such a discovery would have upset dy- nasties and created new geographies; and it is a fair question at this time whether it will not be well to crush the discovery at the very heginning of it. That at least is the kind of talk they have about it in WOMAN'S DRESS AND UNDRESS. N VICTORIA, British Columbia, bloomers are pronounced by the law disturbers of the public peace, and one woman has been arrested for wearing them. There have also been arrests here for the same kind of disturbance. We foresee a couple of civil wars with these precedents in view. ‘The law of this city has said that women may not exhibit them- selves in bronze, or naked. If it is likewise decided that they cannot clothe themselves in garments they prefer and have paid for, there may be a tyranny of authority that calls for bloodshed. BAD FOR THE FAVORITE, BUSINESS MEN who want help in their offices, stores, ete, are pet tioning for homely girls or mature women, and say it is almost im- possible to get them. Not before in the history of this world has the pretty girl been tabooed by anybody; but she has her remedy. A good actress will make up conscientiously for the most forbidding part; and we dare say a pretty girl can make herself as homely as sin if her livelihood depends on it. But who can blame her if, rather than crush the nature she is properly born with, she prefers to starve? comicbooks.com {