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This is a humorous article listing women's supposed capabilities and contradictions, presented as satirical observations rather than serious commentary. It's vintage *Judge* magazine style—light social satire about gender differences. The piece catalogs exaggerated female abilities: talking simultaneously, appreciating old kisses, walking babies without murderous rage, and manipulating men emotionally. The humor relies on period stereotypes—women's irrationality, emotional volatility, and social obsessions (noting what other women wear at church). The final anecdote provides a punchline: a "refined and modest-looking" woman shocking streetcar passengers by exclaiming "I just feel like h—l," then defusing scandal by revealing the expletive came from a parrot in her luggage—not her lips. The satire cuts two ways: mocking both women's expected propriety (and its fragility) and the absurdity of strict behavioral codes. It's broadly comedic rather than biting social criticism, typical of early-1900s magazine humor that played on conventional gender roles without fundamentally challenging them.

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JUDGE 45 WHAT A WOMAN CAN DO. She can say no” “yes,” She can do more in a minute than a man can do in an hour, and do it better. Six of them can talk at once and get along first-rate, and no two men can do that. ‘She can sharpen a lead-pencil if you give her plenty of time and plenty of pencils. She can throw a stone with a curve that would be a fortune to a base-ball pitch She can safely stick fifty pins in her dress while he is getting one under his thumb-nail. She can appreciate a kiss from her husband seventy years after the marriage ceremony is performed. She can dance all night in a pair of shoes two sizes too small for her and enjoy every minute of the time. She can come to a conclusion without the slightest trouble of reasoning on it, and no sane man can do that. She can walk half the night with a colicky baby in her arms without once expressing the desire of murder- ing the infant. She is cool:as a cucumber in a half-dozen tight dresses and skirts, while a man will sweat and fume and growl in one loose shirt. She can talk as sweet as peaches-and-cream to the woman she hates, while two men would be punching each other's heads before they had exchanged ten words. She can go to church and afterward tell you what every woman in the congregation had on, and in some rare instances can give you some faint idea of what the text was, She can drive a man crazy in twenty-four hours and then bring him to paradise in two seconds by simply tickling him under the chin, and there does not live that mortal son of Adam's misery who can do it,—Bos- ton Times, in such a low voice that it means When Baby was sick, wo gave her Castoria, When sho was a Child, she cried for Castoria. When she became Miss, she clung to Castoria, When she had Children, she gave them Castoria Europe is basely ungrateful in pretending to believe that America should have remained undiscovered. 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So when we was with Andrew's folks, An’ Sunday mornin’ come, We s'posed we'd hear the word an’ jine In the sweet hymns they sung. An’ when we stood in that dim aisle, "Neath arched an’ fluted stone, A ray of light touched father's hair An’ his worn features shone. ‘The organ's grand an’ solemn tone Jest sounded like a prayer, An” when it stopped I seemed to feel Wings beatin’ through the air. “The prod gal,” the preacher said, sinnin” weary grown, Has left the swine an’ now has turned His face towards his home.” Then all at once the choir riz; Tt almost made me laugh ‘To hear that young sopran: “Bring in the fatted calf!" shriek, “Bring in the fatted calf, the calf,” Implored the alto low, An’ all the rest jined in, ‘as if They couldn't let it go. ‘The tenor’s pleadin’ touched my heart ; A critter'd been a stone Not to hev come a friskin’ in In answer to that tone. Waal, pa, he sot with eyebrows bent. Like bushes touched with snow A-growin’ round some sheeny lake, Half hidin’ its blue glow. But when the bass had started in A callin’ for that calf, He jist reached fur his han’kerchief ‘To cover up a laugh. “Bring in the fatted, fatted calf,” Bellowed the bass ; an" stars ! Our grandson John called (half “Grandpa, let down the bars —Grace'D, Roe in Chicago Inter-Ocean, sleep) : Mrs, Winstow's Sootutnc Syrup for Children ‘Teething ; soothes the child, softens the gums, allays all pain, cures wind colic and diarrhara, "25 cents a bottle. THE PESSIMIST. The Best Definition Yet Given, I would not be a beastly bee If all the world were given me. I would not be a bear or bull If down on Wall street I'd a pull. I would not be a cow or sheep, A hen, or dormouse, fast asleep. 1 would not be a dog or cat, An elephant, a duck or rat, And if I followed out my plan T would not even be a man. In truth, if I were wholly free To choose my lot, I wouldn't be. 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