Melancolie de toamnă. — căderea frunzelor ("autumn melancholy. — leaf-fall"), cartoon published in furnica, the romanian satirical magazine. The conservative party leaders as street-sweepers, an allegory of their steady preparation for a return in government. Front to bottom rows: take ionescu, alexandru a. Badărău, nicolae fleva, petre p. Carp. The orange leaves on the ground carry various names, reflecting aspects of romania's administrative, judicial and economic policies: "judges", "trusts", "inspectors", "ambulance [service]", "gendarmes", "counties" etc. The original caption reads: "măturătorii de reforme" făcând exerciţiu în aşteptarea căderei liberalilor de la putere (" 'reform sweepers' keeping fit in preparation for the liberals' fall from power"). In the background, hanging from a tree, is a skeletal figure, wearing romanian folk dress, and marked "the budget". Note: theodorescu-sion's t-and-ring monogram is visible on the far left. In this issue of furnica, he is introduced with the pseudonym teodosion. Date: 16 October 1908.
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