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This page contains two distinct pieces: **"Leaf from a Husband's Diary"** (left column): A satirical domestic story mocking pretentious art appreciation. A husband, identified as a church deacon, recounts visiting the Louvre with various women, describing their affected gushing over paintings (particularly a Madonna). The satire targets superficial "art appreciation"—people who profess admiration for famous works without genuine understanding, simply repeating fashionable praise. The humor lies in the husband's observation that these admirers claim to see profound beauty they likely don't actually perceive. **"A Forgetful Sinner"** (bottom): An illustration with caption showing what appears to be a deacon or religious figure speaking with another man. The dialogue suggests ironic commentary on religious hypocrisy or selective morality—the deacon reminds someone to account for their actions "when you go to the other world," while the other character hopes to have "a very poor memory" (implying he wants to forget his sins). Both pieces satirize hypocrisy: pretentious cultural consumption and religious performance without substance.

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Tj ht-foot canvas, exclaiming { ichness of ¢ Last summer, at the seaside, [made a mash or murmured, two, Whom told that 1 was sin Which T never Loe reme ber distinctly now that it was a work Sna'toutae. mashes have reached our | Which—which—one could look and look and | perf rural (own; look and nd look And are look |, the festive » to look 1 to see his way to st what eteomprehension of the power of every nd always | pi t he briskly “Why, I don't see that there is any pig I. meant,” Kup a seaside fri «lt Brown, cognomen, though I wish that it 1 Susin excitedly; but Phineas who | elbowed her instantly out of the foreground, t girl | while the most discreet up the Flood was present. “i out parties” of sw hirers filled in a partnership linked by the gruduates and ht them “abt.” At gap and gazed and suid—O, what did they see L knot, i Siicanhi this moment sh Holy Virgin in that “specimen of an old mast partner of Edward Brows bled fist, and who the day before papered ber sh her dining-room with aha elbow, | vertently — standin, material, | herself into believing that she felt all the nd they | fathomless beauty, the bottomless sublimity, ntly in unison, because, of course, | the limitless grace of that “copy of Titian.” » torn, they saw it or supposed it was there. Away down in her motherly heart she k ww is falling and [must go T fear, Who is the figure behind the Madonna, | preferred to look at Maria’s pink I ats, for my sake Phineas?” asked Mrs, Wiggs of her consort, | screen, but, goodness me, to beab) tear, JW. audibly. tune just like one in the Loover f owls all inad. on their heads, fooled Will hear of my with woe So here [stand upon the street, where I have stooy : . morn, 50.0 SE a Afraid to wander homeward with my virgin con. tlln stiveness and fill my mind anx \ most ineffable de xquisit Bat twilight pw she ly-hock to see a pies || Sean hour from now, dear rec | dre Why, Elizabeth, or Anna, or some of her | ‘There was only one person who dared to be | AN “AHT” STUDY. tives, never mind which one,” he returned | honest. When Patrick came with the first | is breath, | sundwiches and salad he freed his mind || ‘The Old Mnsters, and the Young Masters he has feathers, don't you sce, like | howly family, is ity Faith, wid the | | and Mistresses’ * Aht" Criticism. nee Td like to suy Tve seen a | ons. Sure Mich Hous a fresco in our 1 1 OT van w chureh that ste. St. Joseph nor so poor con Mr. Filkins h san “old mast * Now, | there is not a single other old master in Mud“ Why, Phi | | has pany nd went | does be f 4 ineas! The Angel came Think about your Bib is not so bl be still! Youll expose your ignor- ed | rowled, soffo voce, But Susan would | Bat tl ant to find out about that * fe and was only snubbed when the p dletown. Old Professor Wh m does not count, because we are m speaking of super chers, but of grand, annuated old school t knew very little about “abt,” bout Titien | | | || soulfilling, paint-covered canvases, Th | the old master entered Muddletown is this: Mr. | | not ale | and nothin ANNETTE L. NOBLE, Filkins wentabroad. In due tim returned, and a week or two later the old r rrived. —— ore is in—let us say” Par j ; ,say Titian, Mr. Filkins did not buy it, for it was not for sie; but he bought | one just exactly like it, Titian himself would | not know w | vwas which if he were to see | them together, at least so the persons sellin} declared, and Mr. Filkins, after pay- _ felt he owned an old master to nd purposes. Well, after the big me and was hung up in the front . the owner, who wa Taman as || rich and intelligent, made a party, that his it see the Titian. ‘The result was is! If Mr. Filkins had brought home la, a feud: sora petrified first I his friends (Mr. F, not the have con friends 1 so eur her in guileless y had seldom or never seen the like before. But it was a question of “aht,” as Miss Pauline Placque said, and she had taken an “abt” course; so for some strang that party came iation that one been born | saint's) wou city, simp afessin reason everybody who came in such a state of primed app might suppose each Raphael's frescoes, lived in a picture gallery and spent every day carousing with There were, first of all, four other Muddletown who had “been abroad,” 2 came boldly to the front. Young Pillsen, the homeopathic doctor had put a girdle around A FORGETFUL SINNER. the globe with a Cook's ticket in three days Pexcon Bet less time than Jules Verne’s hero, He strods | you go to the other worl “anvasand looked St. Joseph | 7 Covorep Party—" Wall, Boss, Ise mighty glad [’se got a very poor memory.” ember that you must give an account of all your actions and deeds when comicbooks.com