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# Page 244 from Judge Magazine This page contains three satirical pieces typical of late-19th/early-20th-century humor: **"At the Liszt Concert"** mocks upper-class courtship rituals. A young woman claims she's attending the classical music concert to study composer Franz Liszt (with her mother's approval), but she and her date spend the entire performance gossiping about other parties, flirting, and discussing rivals—completely ignoring the music. The joke exposes the pretense: she's using "high culture" as social cover for a romantic outing. **The baseball cartoons** ("Why the Blackville Catcher Owned the Town") appear to depict African American players in exaggerated style—typical of the era's racist imagery in mainstream publications. **"Sincere Admiration"** and other brief jokes use wordplay and situational humor common to the period. The page reflects Judge's focus on satirizing social pretension, particularly among the urban upper-middle classes navigating courtship and cultural respectability in the Gilded Age.
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244 AT THE LISZT CONCERT. Molly (during the introductory number, softly) —" Mamma was very much opposed to my coming here with you without a chaperon, She would never have allowed it if it had not been a Liszt concert. I am taking up Liszt, you know, and she thought it might help me. | promised her I would give the strictest attention.” Cholly (with equal softness) —"Ah, yes. Why weren't you at the Pren- dergasts’ last night? I hunted for you for an hour.” Molly —“Oh, were you at the Prendergasts’? How provoking! We went to the Gleasons’ poky old recep- tion instead. Cholly (delightedly)—" Provoking? It was exasperating—maddening !" Molly (during the Spanish rhap- sody)—" Did you dance ?" Cholly (reproachtully) —" Dance? I went home at eleven. Molly (pouting) —" 1 suppose Miss Prendergast looked lovely ?” Cholly —"1 didn’t look at her.” Molly (smiling) —" You didn’t, truly 2" Cholly (during the Mephisto waltz) “Was Howe Baxter at the Glea- sons’ ?" Molly —" and he talked to me the whole evening.” Molly —"\ despise him !" Cholly —" You dear \ittle—little” —(Faint murmurings till the com- mencement of the third Hungarian rhapsody.) Molly —“1 don’t know what mamma will say !” Cholly (deliriously) —" Say! Do you care? /'m too happy to think of anything but how happy lam, Don't you feel that same way, darling? You little teenty-tonty ”- Molly —“ Oh, 1 do, dearest! (Vaguely and dazedly) —“ What are they playing? I—it isn’t anything of Meyerbeer's, is it ? Cholly —* No. 1 think it's some- thing from the ‘ Mikado.’ ” RAIMA A. OFFER, WHAT FETCHES HIM, HOUGH winter be with tempest tossed ‘The farmer can't complain, Bat ‘tis the early autumn frost That goes against his grain, SINCERE ADMIRATION, Mr. Boozley (reading) —"* "It is grand sport. There is no pleasure like reeling off ten or twenty miles on one’s wheel.’ What a cycler that (hic) man must be! Why, it's (hic) all I expec’ to be able to do to (hic) reel home two blocks night!" Cholly (with heavy gloom) —“ In- ; IN WHAT WAY HE COULD TELL, jeed 1" Suor-ciki—"' What size does your wife wear 7 bear . . SUBURUAN Jones (teho is shopping a little for his wife) i 7" Molly—" Yes. He's such a bore!” twenty ; no, twenty-one—or two—blamed if I haven't forgotten. Se THE rabid animal was shot and Cholly (joytully)—" He's a cad, 1 Stor-cint. —" I wear a twenty ; do you think my waist is about the killed by Mr. , Bat’ not 4 size of you ? 5 ‘ wasn't sure you thought so. Ithought “Su nCenan Jones—"‘Ahem—ah—can’t just say, but if you'll let me until he had bitten his master and one time you rather fancied him put my arm around you I can tell to a dot.” several other dogs.” FROM NEW JERSEY PAPER. =! BLACKVILLE CATCHER OWNED TE ‘The high throw from centre that was caught, and— TOWN. — the phenomenal back somersault * put-out” at the plate, that cut off the winning run and saved the game. comicbooks.com