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This page contains several satirical pieces mocking social pretensions and economic realities of late 19th-century America. **"How Bella Earned Her Way"** ridicules wealthy Vassar College families. Bella's snobbish parents mock her plan to work her way through college, but she determinedly finds employment on Hudson River steamboats and picking huckleberries. The satire targets class hypocrisy: the parents' horror at honest labor despite their comfortable circumstances. **"The March of Improvement"** appears to mock superficial self-improvement among the upper classes. **"A Lack of Business Sense"** satirizes a struggling young author who lacks commercial savvy. A friend explains he must name-drop expensive establishments (restaurants, theaters, imported goods) in his fiction to attract paid advertising—making the story a vehicle for product placement rather than art. **"A Down East Invention"** is a brief joke about regional hat styles. The humor reflects Judge's typical audience of affluent urbanites, poking fun at both pretentious wealth and artistic naïveté, while tacitly endorsing commercial values.
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THE MARCH OF IMPROVEMENT. may not be Arnica A DEVICE. ing a cane, umbrella and dog without HOW BELLA EARNED HER WAY. A STORY OF VASSAR. TINGSTALL was the daughter of proud nounced her intention Vassar college her high-bred mother laughed a low, while her oldest brother, yool Mexican gra with all the luxurious abandon of the latter part neered contemptuously t of his own lordly er was so brilliant, in fact, tha at the end of the first term he had to leave on account of his _ ELLA RES parents, and when shi of working her way through laugh ; clining in an all- of the and siniversity of Montans: fourth centu —so the local paper said. But Bella was a girl eminently of sand. sandy hue, and while there were no easily Her hair was of a light, disintegrating con- THINGS FROM JUDGE. _ Mrs. Dorsey—"'\ way through high-strung supercilious who was re- s hammock to some s career at the ‘During t boat, keepsie re: own living. stituents in her teeth, it requires no chemical lore to know that even the hardest mate Oh, yes; Bella had sand, lots of it! The class of humy anding A DOWN EAST INVENTION. New York Dxumaer —* You have got the bulge on the Yorkers in the matter of hats, anyway. Did that style of plug originate here ?” Is are the result of induration. y-steen, Vassar, had graduated. was flecked with white dresses and ribbon-encircled dipiomas, the evidences of completed educations, the pontoons on which young womanhood trundles over to the dry land Among the group of delighted parents of real life, re, about the green- admit, Edgar ; without cd The campus Epgar HER. Oh! the history and the myster: Of that naughty little « Her” iy Often sinning, al With a laugh eac y beginning, Setting all our hearts ast. Wild and willful, sweet and skillful, “Her” believes in nature’s art; Losing mitten, teasing kitten, Doing more than ean be written, Busy from the very start. Dancing sunlight seems such bright To the precious little elf ; Ifyou task her, or should ask her Name, the merry little masker Answers, ** Her is just Herself.” PRARt. EYFINGR. If you want to hear a tale of hard luck and destitution just ask a fellow for the money he owes you. The oldest schemes trap the most victims. turfed campus were the Restingst culed the modest proposal of the . My brave daughter,” made from pure left glove 's good as new. the parents who had ridi wing girl to earn her own assar. murmured her father (an_ imperious, oul, not unlike Boulanger before his recent duel) ; the two wandered over a waiter was dipping out lemonade rand a label from a lemon-extract bottle. vacations I made up the berths on a Hudson river steam and in the spring I picked huckleberries for the Pough- aurants.” Old Restingstall had fainted. and not for si He was not a strong man, any- generations had one of his line earned his A LACK OF BUSINESS SENSE. Caxpip FRIEND (40 young author)—** Your story is a good one, | but you never can make much money out of it siderable alterations. Why, Canin FRIEND: wear only clothes made by Shearem and drink ys.use the names that will bring you money what's wrong + You should have your hero dine at Topitoft’s, take a box at Blowhard's nes imported by Fuddleton. . my boy.” PoRTLAND, Maine, ciTizEN—"' Yes; it's called the ‘Neal Dow.’ Take suthin’?” comicbooks.com