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# Analysis of Judge Magazine Page 314 This page contains multiple unrelated satirical pieces typical of Judge magazine's format: **"A Discerning Eye"**: A brief joke about a young man praising his girlfriend's appearance while she eats ice cream—the humor lies in the contradiction between his flattery and his backhanded comment that she looks better while eating. **"Farmer Uplans and the Catamount"**: A rural sketch (with illustrations) depicting a farmer's encounter with a wild cat, using dialect humor common to period rural satire. **"Sentences Passed by the Judge"**: Philosophical aphorisms on happiness, feminine virtue, and mothers-in-law—the latter a recurring target of period humor. **"Who Built the Fire?"**: A domestic comedy contrasting a lazy husband's demands with his wife's legitimate exhaustion from nighttime childcare. The satire critiques male hypocrisy regarding "women's rights" while expecting domestic service. **"The Remedy"**: A brief joke with racist dialect humor about enslaved or formerly enslaved characters. The page exemplifies Judge's mix of social satire, gender commentary, and period prejudices.
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314 A DISCERNING EYE. FARMER UPLANS AND THE CATAMOUNT. 66Q)H, AUNT CORA,” said Alf at the dime festival, “I want to A STORY OF SPRING. show you my best girl. There she is, eating ice-cream with a Sys ee pink dress, and she is ever-so-much prettier than she looks.” = = oo se ed FF —th' "lastic in them suppenders is pow'ful strong.” SENTENCES PASSED BY THE JUDGE. HE occasion always presents itself in time. The utility of happiness, like that of soft but precious ores, consists in its alloy. The art of scolding with agreeability, grace and effect is held in able possession by the feminine few. Apropos of Mrs. Chick, if advice could only be made an active principle there would be no end to the good it would accomplish in this world, Let love set seal upon his own; for though it has been said that Orpheus could not fail to find Eurydice in Hades, no one may know how long he sought. If all the calumnies written about mothers-in-law could be made truths and were put in the balance against the virtues of one the reputation of the kind would be redeemed. AN ATHLETIC-CLUB SECRET. The inexperienced world may wonder at and admire the assurance with ne of your members?” which a mother speaks of her new-born as he or she, but will not attempt Ya-as—our president.” imitation so long as the language possesses the convenient neutral #7. "Don't look as if he could put up a five-pound dumb-bell,” 4" " s guage po: Don't have to, We usé him for putting up th’ boodle.” KATHRINE GROSJEAN, pss ea WHO BUILT THE FIRE? He— Drizzle, drizzle falfs the rain, Patter, patter on the roof, In my bed I would remain , an I not, forsooth? Oh, Maria! you get up and build the fire. How that beastly wind does blow ! Do you hear those windows shake? It is awful cold T kno One more nap I'll take, Say, Maria! you get up and build the fire. Ske— Baby kept me up last night ; Hardly got a wink of sleep. You demand what is not right ; In my bed I'll keep. No, Josiah! you get up and build the fire. When a woman's up o” nights With the children while you snore, Though you prate of woman's rights You her rights ignore When, Josiah, you ask her to build the fire. He—~ Mow that dog barks to get in! She— Some one must be at the door. He— Don't those fise-bells raise a din? Sho— We can sleep no more. Neighbors— i is HE REMEDY. Maria! Josiah! Your house is on fire ! a Run, run mighty quick, Abrum, fo’ de doctor's key, ‘cause little George Washington wannex wituts rues, Persimmon Henry Clay has got de lock-jaw !" comicbooks.com ed