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This page contains multiple satirical vignettes mocking Victorian-era social conventions: **"A Sure Thing"** mocks marriage proposals—a man offers a woman a typist position rather than genuine courtship, reducing marriage to employment. **"In the Studio"** contrasts artistic pretension with reality: a painter romanticizes his model as embodying "tenderness and sentiment," while she (behind a screen) is crude and practical, ordering shoes delivered. **"The Secret Out"** satirizes male vanity—a man almost married a woman until discovering she wore a hairpiece. **"Inconsistencies of Mrs. Grundy"** ridicules social gossip: appearing together causes engagement rumors; appearing separately *also* causes rumors, highlighting the arbitrary nature of social judgment. **"Fashionable Women's Rights"** mocks the women's suffrage movement, suggesting newly empowered women prioritize League activities over marriage—implying activism makes them poor wives. The page's humor relies on exposing hypocrisy in Victorian courtship, vanity, and social expectations while satirizing emerging feminist activism as socially disruptive.

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394 SMYTHE'S SPORTING DOG AND A SPENT. LITTLE SURPRISE FOR SMYTHE, “ 4 s [8T° his thesis for com- mencement day He put so much of learn- ing, force and wit, He carried on in maniacal way Me And died before he could deliver it! A SURE THING. #6CLARA says she C has had a pro- posal of marriage from rich Mr. Bagley.” “Do you believe it is true?” “Oh, I guess he means business. He has offered her a position as typewriter.” IN THE STUDIO, Mr. Greene Yonge—" So this is your St. Cecilia. Oh, Dabster, what a heavenly expression! What soulful eyes! Dabster, the girl who sat for that picture must, I know, be the embodiment of woman- ly tenderness and gentle sentiment. You know my theory about "— The model (bebind a screen, to messenger-boy) —“ Now git along after them shoes, you weazen little ijit, you! An’ ask that brimstone toff of a shoc-man if he thinks I'm a-goin’ down to Coney island barefoot to-morrow A SATISFACTORY ANSWER. * How fur is it to Hoboken, sor?” Who do you want to see in Hoboken ?* Mesilf befor noight, sor.” FASHIONABLE WOMEN’S RIGHTS. SOYVJHERE are you going after you are mar- Ww ried, Charley ?” Prospective bridegroom —"1 wish 1 knew. The dear girl has so many engagements with the woman's suffrage league that she fears she can’t spare the time-for a wedding-trip. Mix Bi THE SECRET OUT. T'S all over now, but I loved her well, How much I loved, neither she nor I could tell ; But I stopped on the brink of = most appalling fate— She hasn't any real hair on her classic pate. INCONSISTENCIES OF MRS. GRUNDY. Amy—“You and that Charlie Leigh were so inseparable that people naturally suspected you were engaged.” Fanny —"But for two months he has been seen con- stantly with other girls and I with other men, That ought to stop the rumor, eh?" Amy—"No. Ithas caused BOTH WAYS. GHE rattles the typewriter all day long With a grace that is fair to see— While I dictate in a voice so strong ‘That no one would guess, as my words out throng, How the typewriter rat- les me, THE MORNING A BOUQUET of snow- bails is an awsthetic and soul-elevating object, AN EASY ONE. ly in the morning. te] F A tailor is only the ninth of a man, All that is necessary to And his bills he can seldom collect ; the possession of one of Pray, how does he manage to weather the times these valuable additions Without either cash or respect 2” HIGHLY RECOMMENDED. to the breakfast-table is Do you know anything about Jagsby an immediate neighbor he deserted his wife and his orsisare someuhat lary hedriaks tosgcess and RO cultivates them, a is very profane ; and, to tell the truth, he ain't exactly honest ; but otherwise ark night and he's a very nice sort of fellow.” chair. * ‘That's easy enough,” old Wiseacre cries, ** For a reason you've quite overlooked : hen That though he is only the ninth of aman, His goose—it can never be ‘cooked.’ " comicbooks.com