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This page contains three distinct satirical pieces: **"An Impression"** mocks romantic sentimentality—a young woman makes an "impression" on a suitor named Adolph, but the punchline (cut off) likely plays on the double meaning of "impression" as physical mark rather than emotional impact. **"The Family Album"** parodies the Victorian custom of sharing family photos by having a character deliver an endless, gossipy monologue about relatives. The satire targets both the tedium of album-viewing and small-town scandal-mongering—each photo triggers increasingly dramatic stories of jilted lovers, poverty, elopements, and remarriage. **"A Strike in the Band"** shows an orchestra conflict: the conductor demands the hornist wait because he's still chewing tobacco. The musician threatens resignation. This satirizes labor disputes and worker dignity in the entertainment industry. **"Servants' Rights"** jokes about a maid requesting evening off; a child interrupts asking to let her go, mentioning her aunt's boyfriend might become a "sergeant"—implying military recruitment or arrest. **"Got It by Inheritance"** uses the child's water-aversion to make a crude joke about the father's drinking problem (his "colored nose").

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iape- AN IMPRESSION. Ah! she is a giddy charmer, On this point mak: pistake, And she vowed a deep impression On dear Adolph’s heart to make. So her smile was most bewitching As beside him dowa she sat And she made a great impression, But sho made it on his h FR THE FAMILY ALBUM. Did you ever look through a family album, gentle reader? No? Then come over hero be- side me and I will let you look at the “photos” A STRIKE IN THE BAND. Now that first She | | in mine. one is Aunt Sarah, SUPPORT ASSURED. married this one over here. And that one there, with his hand rest- | ing on the back of the | chair, was dead in love | with her. Those ?—oh they’re her two children one of em had the sca: tina when he was seven years old, and—Oh, you want to know who that is? Well, he used to come to see my sister Maggie. And this one wi over back — but | never mind; I'll tell you a story about him some other time. Now don't | you think he's handsome | —this one I mean? He |used to come up here every summer, but law! he married the homeliest | girl—that one there—and everybody in the villag says she made him be- ‘but I don’t want thing about it, that’s pa, and that's ma before they were married. There’s the | Scrooaiss—" Wi Wicater--** Oh, 1, old boy, are you making a good. living now? 's stillon the staj house where we used to live before pa lost his money, and—Y that’s my photo; doesn’t look anything like me, does it? Think I'm better looking now ? You don't mean it. That picture there? Oh, | dear! it’s slipped down. ‘That's my cousin RY), LEADER OF ORCHESTRA —“ All ready Herr Scuweirurti—" Dot overdure te trum gan't gecb from chewin’ unt den usin’ init dis pands.” Ah, what is the matter, Herr Schweinfurth 7” ll have to vait some minude ! ine horn for von sewer I vill resign myselluf from Ohf dot feller vot plays | she came here to spend the summer with us and met a young man from the city, and they do say she jilted him. Atany rate he went out west and married a girl who led him an awful life. A friend of mine told me about her and said that when he saw him last he | hadn't a cent, and she used to carry on awful, and finally he died and she married again | within about two months; n't it awful! The man she married had a big fortune they do and they came east, but she eloped and her husband didn’t try to find out where she had gohe, but he left and we heard he had married somebody down south: they do say that his wife was divorced and that her hus band married a girl who waited on the tablein the hotel where he was staying, and the young man who was paying attention to her shot him- self. You wanttoknow what that’s got todo with Bella? Well, I thought you wanted to | know about the pictures; but if you're going | toact that way I shan’t explain any more to you. SERVANTS’ RIGHTS. Bridget —“Oi wud loik ter go out and sphend the avenin’ wid me aunt, Mrs. De: Jacken, if yez have no objections.” Mrs. De Jacken—"‘Why, Bridget, you were | out last evening and all the previous day, and T don't see "— Little Tommy (interrupting) — mamma! do let Bridget go. Heraunt did looking fellow with big brass butt his coat; and I heara some one say that he was | going to be made a sergean' . | GOT IT BY INHERITANCE. Father—“ My dear, I don't know why this child has such an aversion to water.” Wife (glancing at her hubby's somewhat colored nose)—"' 0, I suppose he inherits it from his father.”