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# Judge Magazine Page 299 - Content Analysis This page contains multiple unrelated satirical sketches and jokes typical of Judge magazine's format. The cartoons include: **"The Pure and the Simple"** - A social commentary on class perception, where seeing a man with a chrysanthemum flower signals simplicity, while a woman in plain clothes signals purity. **"A Pupil of Tolstoi"** - A brief joke about religious customs, questioning why people marry in churches. **"Acute Professional Humiliation Threatened"** - A street scene with children playing baseball, apparently mocking someone's social status or profession through wordplay involving sports terminology. The remaining sketches address various domestic and social situations with punchline humor—typical of early 20th-century American satirical magazine content. Without clearer context or identified historical figures, the specific political references remain unclear.
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Sage DANGER. 6eyOU make yourself con- spicuous, Chappie, the way you avoid Miss Fayrenheight. What's up 2” “She gave me the cold shoulder at Newport, and an- ‘other shock might end in grip.” THE stoutest string, if al- ways under tension, some day must snap. THE CAT-SHOW. Youno Sr, Bernarp—' They should make me judge at the show. J know a cat when I’ see one.” THE PURE AND THE SIMPLE, Mr. MAsHLeY—"* When I see a girl, doncherknow, carrying white flow- ers T always think of purity.” Miss C, Vere—"‘And when I see a man with a big chrysanthemum I always think of simplicity.” THE USUAL MEANING, + PAPA,” said Benny Bloobumper, what do you mean when you say that Mr. Gazzam is a man of sound judgment?” “I mean, Benny,” replied Mr. Bloobumper frankly, “tha: Mr. Gaz~ zam's opinion generally coincides with mine.” A PUPIL OF TOLSTOI. He (pastor) —" You wouldn't like to drop dead in a ball-room, though, would you?" A TIME FOR EVERYTHING. She—"*Why not? People get married in a church.” First BowgrontaN—"'I dropped inter de Salvation Army last night an’ : never heard so much prayin’ in me life ‘cept once.”” Second BowsxoniaN—"* When was dat 7” First Bowgronian — ‘ When de Paddy Divver pleasure club's barge banged onto a rock off Coney island.” 700% - ENCORE. aaa HE bicyclist who was riding a very high wheel took a genuine eee header and turned an almost complete somersault.. After he had recovered himself and wiped the dirt from his face and clothes he was very much aston- ished to hear one of two small boys on the side- walk say, “ Mister, do that agin, will yer? This feller didu’t see it.” A PREFERENCE. He—"1 don't believe [f in long engagements—do you, Miss Alithea >" She—" No, Mr. Bun- thorn; I prefer short ones and many of them.” A HUNTED LOOK. + ¢YOU are of American tory stock, are you Sw not?" ACUTE PROFESSIONAL HUMILIATION THREATENED. Yee ae noweves Jiumy Varrs (captain and manager of the Windjammers, appearing unexpectedly) 4 you guess it? Say, Dogan, wot did I say *bout battin’ up fungo* balls gittin’ yer eye out fer “Oh, I knew your plichin’? An’ you, Rooney ; do yer serpose I took chances on swipin’ dat *home- wife was a daughter of plate "from de marble.yard fer yer ter be practisin’ de pedestal clog on? Nixey! An’ en vie ef yer two slobs ain't more leary o' trowin’ me generalship down, de fust ting yer the revolution, and you knows yer'l bot" be holdin’ down de bench wid de colts. See?" 5 pave a hunted look, “A FRIEND IN (K)NEED,”