Judge, 1891-12-05 · page 31 of 52
Judge — December 5, 1891 — page 31: what you’re looking at
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This page contains four separate humorous sketches satirizing Victorian social conventions and courtship customs: **"A Tussle with a Car Window"**: A gentleman offers to raise a car window for a lady, but a physical struggle ensues—satirizing the exaggerated chivalry and awkwardness of Victorian manners. **"A Great Gulf Fixed"**: A poet named Warble gifts his poetry collection to a man named Smith as a Christmas present, creating social distance between them—mocking both bad gift-giving and the pretension of amateur poets. **"Embarrassing"**: A child innocently exposes adult hypocrisy: his father asked guests if it was cold despite knowing it was freezing (from checking the thermometer), apparently to excuse why the guests (a young couple) were blushing—implying romantic closeness. The child's logical questioning of adult behavior reveals their implicit acknowledgment of courtship behavior. **"An Unexpected Denouement"**: A man receives a package and places it in his hat intending to play a prank, but encounters a lady—the package apparently contains something that startles her upon revelation. All satirize the gap between Victorian propriety and actual human behavior.
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A TUSSLE WITH A CAR WINDOW. Hze—' Permit me; miss, to raise the window for you?” SHE—" Thank you ever so much,” A GREAT GULF FIXED. She— There seems to be a coolness be- tween Smith and the young poet Warble. I wonder what the trouble is?” He—"Why, haven't you heard? War- ble made Smith a present of a volume of his poems for Christmas,” EMBARRASSING. THE infant was tucked into bed on Christ- mas eve, although he was very, very wide awake, as his mother soon found out. “Mamma,” he asked, “why do people blush?” “For various reasons,” replied the pa- tient one; “why do you ask?” The infant sat up in bed. ““ Because,” he said, “when sister and Mr, Budd came in this evening after their sleigh-ride, papa asked them if it was cold. Now, why did _, ‘I think the recent rains must have swelled : papa ask that when he knew it was cold, ‘Wood work. Excuse me, for he had just looked at the thermometer outside and said ‘ Whew—zero—cold enough to freeze a poker- party!" Now, why did he ask whether it was cold, when he knew it was?” “T don’t know, dear; but what has that to do with blushing?" “Oh, papa asked ‘em whether it was cold, and Mr. Budd looked at sister and sister looked at Mr. Budd, and they both said, ‘ Ob, no, it wasn’t cold a bit,’ and then they blushed. Why did they blush, mamma?” AN UNEXPECTED DENOUEMENT. “A package for me! Well, I A good joke,” office with it. Can't carry itin my ‘with the above startling result. wonder what it contains.” pockst,s0 Tl just pat it ia my oe ‘T'l have some fun at the a way he meets a lady acquaint comicbooks.com