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This page contains multiple satirical pieces typical of Judge's late 19th/early 20th-century humor: **Main Text:** "A Spinster's Advice to the Judge's Daughters" offers conventional wisdom about courtship—distinguishing friendship from romance, maintaining dignity, and rejecting flattery. It reflects Victorian anxieties about women's conduct and marriage prospects. **Cartoons:** - **"His Discovery"**: A man shows off "Royal Whalebones" (corset stays) that "can't bag at the knees"—mocking both male vanity and women's restrictive fashion. - **"The Reward of Crime"**: A four-panel domestic comedy about a man sneaking in through windows, apparently depicting marital infidelity or misbehavior with consequences. - **"Color Blind"**: Ridicules a woman's clashing outfit; a street child compares her to "a bath in a rainbow." - **Minor pieces**: Brief jokes about prayer, prohibition speakers, and classroom grammar. The page reflects period attitudes toward gender, fashion, and social propriety, with gentle mockery of both sexes.

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A*SPINSTER’S. ADVICE TO THE JUDGE’S DAUGHTERS. Keep a watchful eye upon Platonics. Make love a matter of rising—not of falling. Friends: are more rare than lovers. Re- member this and do not confuse the two, Eschew the conceit that because a man looks at you twice he must be in love with you. ‘Train yourself to be worthy of a friendship, and you will be worthy of anything that may follow. Let Love alone. When the proper time comes, for you to make his acquaintance he will seek you. Love without friendship is a flower without root. Neither marry for friendship alone, nor for anything else without it. A really disinterested friend is as rare as life is long. If you find one such during a life- time count yourself fortunate. Cherish a lofty contempt for inuendoes and do not give a man opportunity to insult your good breeding by employing them a second time. Do not cheapen yourself. Flowers that are open to every bee and lips that are free to be kissed by any who will come and take lose their desirability Maintain your dignity. Do not descend to another's level until you have proved the impossi- HIS DISCOVERY. bility of raising him to your own. By that time Towns I've got them at last, Billy, old boy. ‘They're called the ‘ Royal Whalebones,’ and they you will have left no desire to walk on the same —_pawsitively can’s bag at the knees.” : plane with him. When a man tells you that you are an angel, or what not to that ef- NORA NEVER WAS HAPPIER. fect, do not believe him, You will lose all relish for such sweets when you recollect that in all probability the same person has said the same thing to half a dozen other girls within the week. The Thanksgiving dinner was over at Mrs. O'Donohue's and they had all had a comforting drop of the “craythur.” Dennis, warmed to flattery, leaned over Nora's chair. and in a confidential whisper that eve body heard said, “Arrah, honey, but ye have the swate breath av a. cow, an’ to moi moind yer mouth is far purt Strive to keep a holy faith in the possibilities of manhood, and make it-the better for having come in contact with your womanhood, If there is any truth in the old legend about Eve and the apple, then it must devolve upon Eve's daughters to restore man’s finer moral sense, and to help him maintain his equilibrium. KATHRIN. GROSJRAN: JOHNNIE’S PRAYER. Wee Johnnie, curled up in his little cot bed, MIRACLES WILL NEVER CEASE. ‘Through a rift in thecurtain saw the shining moon peep; - es i" He rose on his knees and with clasped hands he said, Ata prohibition meeting in Rochester the other evening, the speaker. * Pcéee: Did. Cho your Math oul Zese GAN AGUE NEE” who had been interrupted for four evenings in succession, was again an- NT, HOLLANDS. noyed by the same individual, “ Well,” he said, “ mira- cles will never cease. The Lord made an ass speak once, but I seem to have the power to make one speak four or five times.” HER LADYSHIP. She does not find time flies the less Because she works not for her bread : It takes her half the day to dress, And half the night to get fo bed. COLOR BLIND. THE REWARD OF CRIME. A woman passed down * Now, Jimmy, bring on yer powder !" 2.—"* Touch her off now, Jimmy !” Broadway the other day dressed in colors so badly blended as to excite at once the astonishment and the ridi- cule of the promenaders. “ That woman,” cried a street urchin, “has been and gone and taken a bath in a rainbow !" EASY ENOUGH. In a primary school. Teacher —" How do you Id in the plural aS ** Let her go, Gallagher ' 4-—"" Well, I'll be blowed !"” comicbooks.com