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This page is primarily **advertisements** for Victorian-era consumer goods (corsets, hats, trains, patent medicines) interspersed with two **satirical poems**. "The Romaunt of a Hairpin" is a romantic comedy about a commuter observing a woman use a hairpin as a bookmark while reading a melodrama on a train. The joke is the narrator's frustrated curiosity—she abruptly closes the book at Hackensack station, leaving him forever wondering whether the heroine proved unfaithful or died. The satire gently mocks sentimental Victorian fiction and the absurdity of the narrator's obsession over a stranger's reading habits. "Uncle Eben's Conservatism" satirizes excessive caution and hedging. Uncle Eben is so perpetually non-committal—never "dead-sure," unable to express anger emphatically—that his extreme conservatism becomes ridiculous. The poem mocks people who refuse to take clear positions on anything. Both poems use humor to critique social pretension and human nature, typical of Judge's satirical approach.

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Try itonce, Address Go BONT Het Confectioner, £12 state StsChicage KNOX’ WORLD-RENOWNED FATS. ABSOLUTELY PERFECT. Retail stores, 212 Broadway. corner Fulton st.; 194 8th ave. umler Fifth Avenue Hotel: 340 Fulton st., Brooklyn, and 191 & 193 State st., Chicago. Agents for the ‘sale of these high class Hats can be found in every city in the United States. Send $1.25, $2.10 or $80 for a retail by express prepaid west of Rew York abd east Denver ofthe WEST SHORE RAILROAD HALF HOLI- DAY SPECIAL. ‘The West Shore Railroad has arranged for a Half Holiday Special Train, leaving New York Every Saturday at | P.M. during the Summer Months. This train makes Express time. nd reaches ail Important points along the Hudson River and In Catskill Mountains; Also Lakes Mohonk and Minnewaska. This will, no doubt, a Popular train. Business men can leave after clove of business Siturday, and take supper with their families in the Mountains, Special Monday Morning Train Returning eayes all points in the Mountains Monday Morning, arriving at New York in time for business. FACIAL SLEMISHES, Metes, Wars, bepertocas Hair, Moar Freche, Wrinten, hed Rowe Sa Neias,Oily Suis, Acoe, Pimples. Blachivads, harbor’ bs cars Pings Powoer Mart J Riacting, Facial Devetopesret etc, Sees 10 cis. for 188-rage bck on wil tha Lm JON H. WOODBURY, Dermatele- ets en Si sroeunen HORE AE obi dracuisin ory malice cnnter olga THE ROMAUNT OF A HAIRPIN. Gray little Quaker, quiet-eyed, Cooped in the corner of a car, I watched you leaf from leaf divide In that poor novel, ** Like a Star.” Your paper-knife, I do declare, Was but a hairpin from your hair. And while the hairpin led the way I saw you smile from page to page, And nod your head as if to say, “This story doth my heart engage.”” But suddenly, unlike a lamb, You shut the volume with a slam, What did the precious heroine do? Prove false, though most divinely fair? Or die untimely?” Would I knew, That I might make the placid air Wherein that novelist exists A very hurricane of fists ! Ab! would that I might pen a tale, All fashioned for your ears alone ; A little ship with silver sail From sapphire seas of Eros flown. But no! you put the hairpin back, And left the train at Hackensack. —Pittsburg Dispatch, ‘The name of Sohmer & Co. upon a piano is a guar- antee of its excellence. UNCLE EBEN'S CONSERVATISM. Uncle Eben was careful in all that he said ; He was never dead-sure nor dogmatic. If he was as mad as a hornet at bay He could not be pronounced and emphatic. He thought it was best to go sure and go slow, And always take time for his whiskers to grow, And his blame or his praise would end with this | phrase, “Tdunno as I know ; T dunno.” When his neighbors were wild in political strife, And asked his opinion about it, *T dunno but it is, I dunno but it'ain’t, He would slowly declare ; ** but I doubt it.” Then he'd pause a long time, scratch his head, and lay low, For it took quite a while for his language to flow ; But at length he would say in a calm kind of way, “I dunno as T know ; I dunno. You might pelt him with truth, you could stone him sith Pacts, You could crush him with strong demonstratio And teachers and preachers and lawyers could talk } He would have just the same hesitation. He would still scratch his head, undecided and slow, But no flush of conviction his face would o'erflow ; But slowly he'd say in his old chronic way, “I dunno as I know ; I dunno.” I dunno as T know ; T dunno as I know,” The refrain of his'song of existence. But we loved the old fellow—after he died ‘And his sou! wandered off in the distance. ‘Then we thought were we wiser and less fond of show, Less weak and less proud of our work here below, Like him we would say ever y, every day, “I dunno as I know; Idunno.” — Yankee Blade. Kistuat’s Premigre Qualité is a superb Cigarette of Virginia and North Carolina ‘Tobacco, HE DIDN'T HAVE A FAIR SHOW. My wife sez I might hey been famous, and sich, ‘An’ chock full of Varin’, an’ tol'able rich : My systim is soaked full of genyus, T know, But you see I hain’t hed a blame bit of a show. Sez I to Joe Peters, ‘I didn’t hev no chance, For my parents was poor, to.-make any adv: Bill Shakespeare's parents was poorer “And Shake he writ purty good stuff, you'll agree. ‘es ; but Snake hed no principle, more ‘n an old cu is my conscience that keeps me way down in the mu¢ ** But Grant's parents was poor,” he resoomed with great awe, “Wall, I might be a Grant, but I hain't got no war.”" “George Washington's dad hadn't a cent to his name, But George scraped together consider'ble fame, “But he flourished before I was born, don’t ye see, An’ didn’t hev a bit competition from’ me.” —S. WW’. Foss in the Yankee Rlate, “I'm weary, doctor, and I need Rest from this over-active state ;" | So, fortune heard and gave him heed And made him walking-delegate.—Zx. | have fitted. up over ofbce baldings wich Us Mal Chutes and the Postal Collec toa Service is extended to them. “Business men need the facilities which this gives, Sole makers, CUTLER MF'G CO., Paf'd, ~ Rocussrex, N.Y. 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