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**Top cartoon:** A mother delivers her son to boarding school with provisions. The satire mocks Victorian parental anxiety and the affectations of wealth—the fussy mother fussing over trivial comforts for her child's departure. **"Hum of the Court":** A satirical column mixing social commentary with gentle ridicule of contemporary American life. Notable targets include: - Scottish financial matters ("blank ward" circulation) - References to Sarah Bernhardt's voice - Detroit's crime statistics (murderers allegedly have small hands/feet) - Fashion trends (narrow ribbons on ball gowns) - A Kansas mayor giving birth (absurdist humor) - Harvard banning draw-poker to encourage academics - Massachusetts widows' demographics - Prohibitionist hypocrisy (controlling others' drinking while indulging authority themselves) - Women's constraint under law (the final barb about biting tongues to avoid jail for speaking) The humor ranges from absurdist observations to sharper social critique, particularly regarding prohibition and women's limited legal freedoms.

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SUDGE OFF FOR BOARDING SCHOOL. Dearanve Itivat ‘anon. HUM OF THE COURT. : To the Scottish clans. The mor it’s the matter with you ? for the blank ward being about to be circulated, busi- ness is waking up It used to be said that Britannia ruled the wave; but they used to say that of Noah too. The statement that the TI long getting around the course, A Gert artist dresses all his angels in store clothes. to us that is altogether superfluous expense. We trust &: that of he Je was too long was true, She was too It seems ) Bernhardt will regain the use of her voice, but n easily be dispensed with, chting, they and perhs toes ¢ The Detroit: Free-Press says most of the munlerers have small hands and feet. Let us add that most of the defaulter exemplary mei family re led by f led by none. are youn Bismarck 1s rested nship you can p the most of it The sleeve of a fashionable ball dress this winter will be a ribbot But let no- body be apprehensiv: —the ribbon will be very narra, Electricity a piano out of but as for the players of the instru- ment they are gener- ally in that condition when they first begin. will put tune More letters are mailed in September than in any other month of the year, Itis toa large extent a matter of business ; coeeneee “Oh, to be sure it is I've brought Michael down with a few little things to eat on the cars, By the way. tell Madam Resteaur, from me, that I want your but, besides, September is the cool, sober month following the heated term, when people write letters the sending of which is not likely produce misfortune, even if they happen to leave them in the sum- | mer ov The mayor of Argonia, Kan., recently gave birth to a fine boy. Let there be no mistake about this intelligence. He did it herself. It is stated by a chemist that wool can be made very palatable ; but the chemist naturally pre that the palate shall be that of some other man. The stock of a raided drug-store, in Lewiston, Me., was found to consist entirely of mtoxicants That was prohibition. hibition of drugs. Di poker has been driven out of Harvard college, it being deemed advisable to have more time for the intellectual exercises per taining to rowing and base-ball. Massachusetts has 97,000 widows, and yet it has been the habit of the Massachusetts man for telling other people how to 1 Tt was pro- and years to assume the privilege of Two women have been known to get along pleasantly in the same house for several months, but it so happened that one of them was blind and the other was deaf and dumb. We shall pay nothing fora breeches bible. “Some people are very particular about these things, but the new version is good enough for us. A. prohibitionist isa man who thinks it his duty to control the appetite of his fellow-citizen and to be a glutton in theab- sorption of that authority. If the law prohib- iting the carrying of concealed weapons were generally in vogue many a woman would have to bite her tongue off to keep out of jail. comicbooks.com