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This page contains multiple brief satirical pieces typical of Judge magazine's format. The main cartoons mock: **"Disillusioned"**: A jab at aristocratic pretension, referencing Tennyson's "Lady Clara Vere de Vere"—a speaker claims to have lost fear of an haughty woman after seeing her fall from a hammock, deflating her social superiority through physical mishap. **"The Reason"**: Dark humor about medical education—a new Princeton medical school is justified as necessary to combat overpopulation by producing more doctors to kill patients, suggesting medical incompetence. **Pool-room and other vignettes**: Various short jokes about working-class characters, romantic rejection, and domestic life reflect period attitudes toward gender, class, and propriety. The overall tone is cynical humor aimed at educated readers, mocking pretension, hypocrisy, and human foolishness across social classes—typical Judge content from the late 19th/early 20th century.

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DISILLUSIONED. ADY CLARA VERE DE VERE, Your sway is gone beyond recall, Your scorn no longer do I fear; I saw you from the hammock fall. THE REASON. +44 NEW medical school is to be established at Prince- ton, I see. “Yes; so I've heard.” “What's the use of it? Haven't we enough medical schools ?” “Oh, I suppose something must be done to curb the vast in- crease of population, More doctors are needed.” “* SAND-BAGGED.” SENTENCES PASSED BY THE JUDGE. HE man in financial straits will redouble his efforts to produce; a woman economizes. Idleness is a bad thing—a very bad thing; but the devil is supposed to be a very busy person. Nothing so wears upon a person as to be prevented from ex- panding his disappointment for accident or abrupt defeat by the conviction that there is absolutely nothing and no one to blame but ft al IN THE POOL-ROOM. Book-staker—" Here you are! One to ten on the favorite—one to ten here" Mr. Waynack: One ter ten, eh? Va-al, gol durn it! gimme er dollar's wu'th. Thar ain't nothin’ small ‘bout Silas Wayback, yer kin bet.” 1 AM THANKFUL THAT I never wrote a book. That I never studied foot-ball at college. ‘That I never praised the poetry of my female friends. That I never was sick more than two weeks at a time. That a glass of whisky never put me into an exalted state. That I never bluffed in a poker- game at the wrong time, That I never repeated a poor joke without feeling sorry for it. That I never abused the trust put in me by my wife or the grocer. That I never let my neighbors know the extent of my learning. ‘That I never originated a theory concerning the origin of microbes. That I never patented anything intended to revolutionize the age. That I never used a word of eight syllables when one of six would do. That I never let my tailor wait more than nine months for his bill Vi gywar, fe BREAKING A YALE LOCK. himself. “Whither thou goest," says the invisible goddess Consequence, borhood SECOND HARLEM DRUGGIST—"' Poor, very poor. They've just started a bar: room on the next corner.” That I never smoked a bad cigar except in the seclusion of my sanctum. That I never had any leanings toward philosophy, riding-breeches or canvas-back duck. xarway m. Levy. A CHARMING MAID. WIHIEN you propose she tells you no With such a look of pain ‘That you propose at once to go And" again, PRACTICAL INFORMATION. T THIS season every member of the family except the head of it knows exactly how to run the furnace. “Iwill also go." You may refuse to be housed with her, you may deny her claims and take up your pack and flee from her, but at the first turn you will meet with her, and when you sit down to your hearth you will find her there and awaiting you. KATHRIN GROSJEAN, LITTLE TIME TO CHOOSE. Rev. Dr. Primrose—"That’s a fine bird you have.” Unele "Rastus—*'Tis, sah; cun- sidderin’ dat I picked him out in sech a hurry.” A CHEERFUL CHANGE. OUNG Widow Clark to wedlock speeds, Her husband with a million over, For just a year she lived in weeds, But now she'll live in clover. HE THOUGHT HE KNEW. Teacher—* Tommy, what do you know about the great American desert?” Tommy — Please, ma’am, it’s pie.”* First Harte pruccist —" How is trade in your neigh- RUNS IN THE FAMILY, Mrs. MULLEN (at the christening)—“* It do be shtrange, Mrs. Daly, thot th’ Finnertys niver has no childher.”” Mrs. Day—" Och, shure, an’ it's no wondher at all. It's heredittery in th’ fam'ly. Her mother was the same way.” comicbooks.com