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# Analysis of Judge Magazine Page This page satirizes popular literary genres of the era through parody. "Love's Growth" mocks sentimental Victorian poetry about romance blooming unexpectedly. "Snatches from an Unpublished Novel" by James Henry Howells Dean parodies overwrought dime novels—melodramatic serialized fiction consumed by working-class readers. The excerpt features absurdly florid language ("cherry" lips, "precious beatitude of a nose"), clichéd plot devices (lovers eloping despite poverty), and overwrought dialogue ("Amor vincit omnia"). The bottom cartoon and text mock pulp fiction conventions further, while the sidebar joke about a baseball umpire provides comic relief. Judge targeted educated, middle-class readers who considered such popular literature gauche. The satire mocks both the purple prose of cheap novels and their working-class audience's supposed gullibility. The illustrations exaggerate character types—the swooning heroine, the devoted lover—reinforcing the mockery of genre conventions readers would instantly recognize.

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LOVE'S GROWTH. IT WENT. Hf, Tcan’t tell you why or how, He isn’t handsome I'll allow, But still Tlove him dearly now When first we met Iturned away, | Tid not like him. People say Love oft commences in that way. Methought true friendahip My bosom, till an unkind wo Another spoke, L overheard. ute I felt my heart indignant «well, Lo! There he stood. At his behest (MAY mec a And from my lips these hot words fell, ‘went to hi f f rT | ech lg ater RC a ys wl gerald—is my hero. Hisears were pink, his eyes were blue, his lips | were cherry, and over all there| rested the precious beatitude of a| nose like a he kissing hill. Mildred, i ! Some-| times, whi i to fine poetic musing, my mind’s eye the agglomerat of ail human loveliness sett! one radiant soul, cre shame the lily, the dentist and warranted to wear, hair t headed sun, a contour that beats y of vocal velveteen, and a bearing and carriage worthy of a Stuart or a second old lady in a burlesque troupe * Mildred,”+ he said, ** many a time and oft have we sat here by the firelight’s fitful glow, mooning and spooning galore. Carriage-hire is dear, and I'm only getting six thalers per week. Come, fly with me, and let ussettle down to love in a cottage and soup-meat forever and evermore” Mildred blushed one hundred degrees in the shade, and, lov- | ing him with a love that knoweth no bank account, she replied, ‘* Yes, my Pe here ye a strange sound which may have been th MisTRESS—* co the alarm clock go off 7" wearing at the key-hole, or the pit-a-patting of the lover's! BRIDGE h did you do with fe “let us git up and git.”” (Kisses, tableau and exeunt.) x Ned tat he cried, ‘depart thee hence unto the mght’s Plu A CHAPTER FROM A DIME NOVEL. tonian shore. Japetus hath a step-daughter, whom he loveth passing well. So write me an epic and thou mayst have her with all rights, privileges and glories thereunto pertaining. Or else, beware, for there is resin rubbed an inch thick on my boot-end, and I have just made way with a bottle of good old |rye, quart size.” Perey was inconsolable. He would have her or die by slow poison. A climacteric having been reached, it is the fashionable \literary rule to pass over three or four years in the history of jour lovers, and light upon an idyllic scene in the rural dis- tricts of Bungtown county. Mildred leaves in the morning, after impressing a dozen kisses upon Percy's lips, and returns at eve, only to fall into his yearning arms and kiss again. busy at home all day with the house and children, and he cooks is said to have turned the neighbors indigo with envy. ers, my moral is plain. Amor vincit omnia, or, robbed of its French, love takes the whole grocery. In the |meantime, as we shall not publish a sequel to this work, you | would do well to purchase this volume, which may be had at ten dollars, one-third off, at the book-stalls of Messrs. Scrib- |bler, Wellfed & Co. at the sign of the three brass balls, next |store to the barber-shop. NATHAN M. LEVY. | A base-ball umpire should have eyes in the back of his head ; not that he could then see the first and third bases at * Halt! am pursued, and we must change clothes. Quick.on your life! Hts Zine- the same time, but that he could dodge the missiles thrown toothed Tim, the terror of Hackensack, who makes the demand, ‘so hi at him. comicbooks.com