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This page satirizes **Gilded Age wealth excess and nouveau riche pretension**. The "Society Events" section mocks ostentatious automobiles and their owners—absurdly named figures like "Mrs. We've Gotthere," "Miss Pansy Billions," and the "Would-Bees"—who deck their cars with diamonds, pearls, and imported French chauffeurs. The darkest joke: guests at a motor entertainment compete to run over hired pedestrians (poor people dressed up for pay), with the "winner" earning a steam yacht. This grotesque image exposes how the wealthy treat human life as disposable entertainment. The smaller cartoons and anecdotes maintain this satirical tone: the kitchen scene mocks parental laziness; "Parental Strategy" jokes about mothers preventing children from playing; "At Valley Forge" uses Revolutionary War nostalgia to mock modern morality; and "Things to be Proud Of" ridicules small-town boasting. Overall, Judge attacks conspicuous consumption, class indifference, and the moral bankruptcy of unrestrained wealth during America's Gilded Age.

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SOCIETY EVENTS. CONSPICUOUS among the automobilists no- ticed yesterday afternoon on the avenue were Mrs, We've Gotthere and her famous Japanese monkey, the latter of whom was such a social favorite at Newport last summer. Mrs. Gotthere was wearing a racing-cloak of ermine, set solidly down the front with diamonds as big as hens’ eggs—the latest imported device for protection against wind and dust. A picture-hat composed of diamonds and pearls, with a veil of silk gauze, dotted heavily with smaller diamonds, completed a costly and effective costume. The monkey was attired a la chauffeur, with a diamond collar about his neck. * Miss Pansy Billions’s charming little runa- bout of solid gold, studded with rubies, turquoises and pearls, also attracted much interest and at- tention. These dainty motor toys seem greatly the vogue among the season's débutantes. The automobile cotillon is society's latest caprice. At Mr. and Mrs. J. Would-Bee's dinner- dance last Tuesday evening the souvenirs con- sisted of French and American automobiles of old ivory, decorated with pigeon-blood rubies for the ladies and with emeralds for the men. Across the back of each machine was the Would-Bee crest in diamonds. With each motor-carriage was provided a Parisian chauffeur specially im- ported by the Would-Bees, and warranted to ex- claim nothing but Parbleu!" “Sapristi !" and “Sacre bleu!” Mr. and Mrs. Rapydd Clymber's. motor en- tertainment and dinner last evening was a unique and decided success. Fifty new and expensive automobile hansoms conveyed the guests to the hotel built by the Clymbers specially for the oc- casion, After dinner the huge ball-room was converted into an amateur race-track, and the guests engaged in a contest to see who could run over the most people in a given space of time. A HAT PHASEDS HIM: large number of men, women and children, richly “Women, you know, are not so delicate as they appear.”* Ah, no. "I never see them at a ball without wondering how they can bare so much.”* dressed and hired at a fabulous price for the even- ing’s sport, acted as pedestrians. To the gentle- man killing and maiming the most people a steam yacht éosting a king's ransom was given, while the lady who scored highest was awarded a com- plete racing-stud of turf-winners. PARENTAL STRATEGY. s4]T MUST be a task for you to wash the hands and faces of your nine children every day,” we say in a sympathetic tone to the mother of the lively brood. “Indeed,” she answers, “I do not have to wash them.” “But they always look so clean.” “Tknow. In the winter time I tell them they must not play in the snow and in the summer their father threatens to whip them if they go swimming.” AT VALLEY FORGE. Se THAT was a daring deed of Corporal Jones,” said Colonel Forefather to his aide-de- Going bare-handed into the residence of a suspected spy and capturing the Tory lover of the daughter of the house is an act that will go down in history.” “Yes,” agreed the aide. “ And is it not odd that he should make history by unmaking her THINGS TO BE PROUD OF. : Tory?" Tne prummer—" You folks seem very proud of your little village.” The rostuasten—" Wa-al, Jest a leetle, Eddie Galootze, thet played ‘ short" with our ball-nine i: In ‘ninety-seven, is now engaged fer th’ national league, an’ Steve McClusky, thet played with th’ [ess rage when he found that such a remark was national league in ‘ninety-seven, is now captain of our ball-nis not amenable to drum-head court-martial. lle | i \ A i camp. And the colonel gnashed his teeth in boot- comicbooks.com