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This page from *Judge* magazine contains two distinct sections: **Left side:** A humorous domestic essay by "Mrs. Pennyfeather" complaining about her husband's refusal to buy a new piano. She describes him knocking over furniture while drunk or negligent, his mean remarks about her embroidery, and his general inconsiderateness. The satire targets husbands' stinginess and domestic tyranny—common themes in Victorian-era humor. **Right side:** "Court Etiquette" section lists absurdly long titles of Russian nobility (Czar, Grand Dukes, etc.), mocking the elaborate Russian imperial court hierarchy. This likely references late 19th-century Russian autocratic pretension. The satire ridicules the excessive formality and title-inflation of monarchical systems. The cartoons illustrate these domestic and political absurdities in period style, though specific historical events aren't clearly identifiable without additional context.
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THE JUDGE. carpet and table cover Hd nearly put my eyes pbrowdering “be d + if you'd embroider some buttons on my shirts, and doa little art Ken- : at time of my socks, it would | court etiquette ix wearyit e ‘Turkish tow. High Chief What-d’ve 7" and added a body of s 1s soon be blown ap by kerosene marches up to the mily : I considered these remarks too Cz r, and remarks thre gh the port-h I was try- x nd Autocrat to go to sleep 5 ) Ww. of Kiel, of lly did. He knows per- | Vis of} Czar of Kazan, of the nurse, does allthe | ly of Siberia, of Kher- mending, and does it well, too; but he got ; paid for his mean speech in away that he lit- | Gra Bb ynsk, of Lithuania, of tle exp » Ttseems that our little prec- | Vi f * ‘rine ious had been pi with a la glass mar- at, of Courland, of Sem- ble that aftern rie. : Sa vd of Bielostok, ret, so gi | Shen ny. sour sman Nail ndressed, (armed ; nid of other countri down t nd was proceeding to get into | Master : and Duke in the L hed, he stepped on it with his bare foot,and | tries in Novgorod, of Tchernigotl, ross the floor, Fa] | of Pol it’s awfully mean in Heraclitus not to be willing to get a new piano, partic larly after telling: me Tcould furnish the p: iT, « lor just as Liked. When I reminded him sof the bedstead with | osersk. . of Oldorsk, of Kh * of his pre he didn’t what nthe room. 1 | of Vitelsk, of Mtskheiti, and of all the coun- upon earth E wanted with a new piano, and : f e he used was North; Master Aly asked what was the matter with the old on , . want. Tle onldn’t im- | ersk, astolnisk, of Kalardinsk, LT told him it was square, and out of fashion, Lie him till he turn- aay f an uprights whi in and found the marble, in Princes of ; and said Pad want - | and then the . nto storm about | Ty nz Heir Presumptive of Norway, joned husband next; that he r Dat che leairaleasiie gene dd his | and Duke of Schleswig-Holstein, of Storn value of a piano consisted int own wife in ps aur, Wi all | arne, of Dithn and of Oldembourg— the music it w unmarried feu 1 had enough of | the banquet waits would think it would not in the fa his so T just told him | make him 1. How mueh by going to be erushed by any of his granc =| tay be it was nobody's fault bat his | de “ nplicity of our so told him that was all he k had to hav if his feet | court,” where the w chit pat ore fashionable, h fo and shout i helped to furnis! antifully, and sian =_— The Whitehall Times says that * the dude connecting link between nd pup 1 r rl This looks like an inference that he is 4G the L a Bologna sans and just | talittleef the stu! | Dr. Pusey left a personal e: e the skin was off, he yerfectly | 000 to M y Amelia Brin furious, and tore around t Kea wild : ate will pr hyena. But the baby was decidedly better, | it eam grana salis, aid after he'd eaten a nice breakfast, | scoop- —— it of him and went forth to} Wires aman gets lost ina big cornfield, some purchases, [had to | no wonder he is amazed that he cannot stalk street anyhow, so F just thonght Pd take a | ont, look in at Le Boutillier’s new st = there was quite a ¢ impro ment in him as in th ny way, Hy out of tur ices never and one 0” heen well all that day, left T sent for the doctor, when my y an returned from his poker | party, or Whatever he'd been to, he hound | Sa inatters eminently cheerful. ‘The first thing he did, on entering the room, was to knock | very yicely fitted up. and they havea fine as: | Ly Warsaw the jestill threshed with ower a table on which was a students Hump | soriment of black silks at astonishingly aflail. Wonder if this is the same kind of thak Td just got Gxed tomwe me 7 ne of their fifty-cent handker- | threshing that Thaddeus of War-saw mon lamps are anything but ornamen 5 oo protty. 1 bad 4 ¢ that Tha E . I hunted around till [found a lovely, < | storie — : . then I went over to Stern’s to get se cate pink globe that just fitted ow ray Sain : on a | inish lace the same plush for s table, [ also pnrchased som ‘To remove paint—kiss a fashionable girl mee lovely ornaments for my. new cabinet there, | 0” te check. und fa an , 7 pack to Have uiothe ; vr. | A TeXAs rancher calls his sheep corral shed with the . hae the wether bureau, ed in an orguinette that he got of the Me- | chanical Orguinette Company, and the baby is perfectly delighted with it. It is too fun- ny for anything to see her turn the handle cops: | with her little hands to “‘make the music sales d Hei she has at last found an instrument on which he ean play. 1 Of | haven’t said anything about the piano | | but I've not given it up soon as 1 make up my mind where I can do the best, and get gieail of being sorry hi ie Jad of | the most for my mon _Eshall open the sub- it—I ought to know that a rod light was bad [Jeet anew. ‘Then ho'll find that piano und for the eyes, and if | must go and make a nse- | 2°thing but a piano will suffice ful thing ridiculous, I'd better have a blne ce TERE YYPATHER shade than a pink one. [told him he — great clown to be so clumsy; tha + MAN cannot live by bre ; thanks to him it didn’t happen to be lighted | is’ always mect to have, as it is generally and blow us all up, and that doubtless the | kneaded. jor of kerosene would be highly beneficial ' to his child's throat, to say nothing of the | ‘Too many 8” spoil tho rm and he looked at me—ah, so satin ribbon through the brass top of the handle, and tied it there in a good, erous bow. ‘The effect was extremely und, when lighted, it gave the whole roseate hue that was b re the table it was on w: and would almost go over if at it, but 1 wasn’t going to tell Heraclitus of it. Let him think it was his own care ness that upset it, and serve him right. course the noise awoke the | + and the | room smelled fri H 5 but in- Cop fishing is all net profit, “Oh, ma! I sawa real * dood? on the street, comicbooks.com