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This page from Judge magazine contains several humorous short stories reflecting late-19th/early-20th-century American social satire: **"A Quaker's Friendly Scuffle"** depicts Union soldiers during the Civil War confronting a Pennsylvania Quaker (known for pacifism) to steal food. When the Quaker refuses and a soldier strikes him, the Quaker "friendly scuffles" back—the joke being that even pacifists have limits. It satirizes both wartime hardship and Quaker principles. **"It Was in There Though"** concerns a traveling salesman's expense reports, satirizing business dishonesty—he claims costs for items never purchased, a common corporate practice. **"Mittened"** features rural girls discussing a suitor the narrator "mittened" (rejected/dumped), poking fun at rural courtship customs and dialect. Other pieces ("Served Him Right," "A Good Memory," "Couldn't Play On It") continue in this vein of gentle social humor targeting various American character types: country folk, businessmen, and ordinary people in awkward situations.

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THE JUDGE. A Quaker's Friendly Scuffle. | It Was in There Though. Mittened. backs were making their | | A presser on his first trip was seated in | AN interesting story was overheard not way through Pennsylvania toward Gettys- | the san with an old experienced knight | many days ayo by one who chanced to vecupy x, two infantrymen belonging ckel of the read, and their conversation turned | the seat behind girls on a railroad ear rians raided into aker’ in | on their relative daily expenses, The voung ladies—both evidently from the h of something to eat. They were met | +L always ma to include in my ex- rural’ distriets—met unexpectedly on the at the door by the owner of the premises, | pe 1 the elder, * hats, boots, over- train, ‘They proved to be old. friends, and 1: ind every drummer who has any | were soon launched into a conversation t » you rebels?” | respect for his noble call ght todo the might be said to come under the head & You bet we was the blunt reply. | same, Make the firm confidential. One, a pretty. brunette, And what do ve h The young man thou about to be married, and neve ceded, ing Ider, old 1, and don’t keep us | ide: 1 on his return trom 1 ry ne in- to her companion’s in ad for it.” cl E x other items of expense « scription of the m After wishest for something to eat | pu R12. quite alittle d rood quale er : i ; , emselves as | ities, she acknow at < not very will take oss us a salesman, | good-looking. 6, Frank’s nota bit hand- . but objected to pay for the boots, some, h for that; but, Carrie, poor trust. After the boys had | On his nest trip he was fortunate enough | you should have seen the man I mittened? their meal one of them pocketed a to meet his former acquaintance. Oh, but he was pretty."—Hartford Sunday ging on a nail »| How is it?” he . ‘that your firm | Journal. . othe F : asa | will stand ate =_— token of remembrance whe nomine apa e Served Him Right. thi pens . Many was a buxom country lass, and her * Certainly, id the young m: father was an upright deacon Metho- and let us out or we'll Y 3 achump. You should | dist church of a Connectic Mary's | have dove the price of the boots into | plan of joining the boys ina mute Twill not! Thou must not rob | the post ps and sundri ting party was frustrated by When the young man again submitted his ival of anumbor of the mind bin, Bill—Quakers don’t | account his firm remarked: their way to conferenc is sin the rear.“ THit | ye don't see any memorandum for at home and get dinner for her him a clip on the'eliin-anil run for it.” : anything of that nature, Mr. So- al . Her already rumle Truely, « shall : a @ ed the disciple of Penn Mr, So-and-so said, softly, to him- 3 and spit on his | You don’t sce it, but there i ay. One of the ndly seule to recover possession of | forty-dollar overcoat there just the sam | her wrathful impatienc mine own the robbers should get injured, L | Philadelphia Call. | buke the sinful miunifests not have to answer to my ¢ —= a‘ friendly seule ” A Good Memory. * Pretty much the York minut 1 one of the trio, who is a h, slied, ** cook dent of Richmond, vividly remem. |, [8 an Austin street cur were several gen- | Methodist ’ bore harin Saw RENE (OER Week af tlemen who passed away the time in tellin while his F jokes and anece Among them was atl Uiroat: diesineas: lame 7 : || at cranky individual who positively refused : to enjoy the fan, and after each’ yarn he My words | Weuld remark: boy thirty cents to shovel off the upped by the Quaker to the effect thal hat’s nothing new, heard that years | snow, y whe orty to put thee out, and sorry to | * wanted to clean TL presume there'll but tt ie bet Bion Did vou ever hear the ancedote about he twenty 1 nexpected non verend visit nd desirin ft sternly: rated Railway Journal. ma‘am, Ul cle our sidewalk 2 ned. I just "Phen matan, ginine hy ways up the pike towards | eo rulroad con fifteen cents and VIE sit on the doorsteps a Bebrat Beco: Eres, we : 2" replied the cranky in mmenires Lela Ekes Couldn't Play On It. Fe eRe gree OR REMAN) ee young." remarked a ~ } [twas not until the langh had g we an individual who had p undisturbed quiet | around that the crank dis f eaeninte That's the way with of rural hill-tops, and his day who | he was sold.—Teras Sifti . ; egin life young.” If we was no doubt the belle of the ne od, f F yht avoid the ame to the city the other day to do a hor n’s shopping for themselves and any of ul authority the neighbors that ‘sent along.” While Sule autos. Le eoraiutr te tho girl eai roller skater, It certainly k Nol kes i . Pwant you to bay me an Rous p that, when you get. fe Somerville Journal. old fellow gave her a sarcasti Fills to which in F ms to be necessary that we should | Miss Minks.—* I was so_dis not being able to go to Mrs. De Coin’s theatre party. You had a splendid time, didn’t you Miss Winks. : Vhever had so much fun in my life. There were ten of us all together—tive deuce do you want with al “F B7 said a young lady at_ the ¥ You couldn't play on itef I wuster | breakfust ta cousiti tes me fron it for you. New York, ks if the much re When the salesman explained, the old | ceiving in Boston on fellow added eunder lip of the fond 4 “Oh, Edidn't understand. T thought it he nd: "Tell your ¢ was one of these here things that you take one man received a railro: in both hands ¢ up together and saw by the frown that the subject had bet- stretch out. put pictures in,eh? Wall, | ter be changed.—Haston Jowrual. she ain't got but three pictures, and they're box a while longer." —Arkansaw Traveler. notice what the 1 elt was + Thenlet ” 1 CoNGressMaN Finerty was with Caste which. We did > such fun, only there command on the Rosebud, and in the pre- one thing that ed usso much that liminary skirmi rode in front of the | troops. although his duties as a news Arter much ¢ ation, and a desire to | correspondent did not demand it. The do injustice to none, we have come at last to that he e back while som the conclusion that the most disinterested, | were . testifies to the Indians’ actors had no om at a self-sacrificing mortal on the foot-stool is the undying hatred for the white man.—Bosfon right along while we were i —Boston Transcript. | Post. Phila, Call. comicbooks.com