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# Page 307 from Judge Magazine - Analysis This page contains several unrelated humorous sketches and verses typical of Judge's format. The cartoons depict domestic comedies rather than political content: **"A Cruel World"** shows shabby figures discussing Shelby's suicide, contrasting sympathy with callous indifference about lost jobs. **"A Freak"** is a character sketch about an oddly dressed woman with strange fashion sense—her mismatched accessories and bizarre taste puzzle the narrator. **"Getting Even"** depicts Charles Augustus Jones learning piano, then deliberately playing badly to annoy his father (who bought the instrument). **"A Way Out of It"** and **"A Sorrowful Lesson"** show domestic chaos—the first involving a cat causing mayhem, the second a woman teaching someone to chestnuts without leaving a mess. These are social satires of everyday middle-class life, not political commentary. No specific historical figures appear identifiable.
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HER MEASURE. Gemmal [HEY are dancing the cotillon, And among the souvenirs Isa silver-mounted girdle He has chosen, But he fears That it will not fit the slender Waist of her he loves so well, ‘And he whispers, ‘* What's your measure ? For I really cannot tell.” Roguisbly she smiles and dimples, Full of sweet, coquettish charm, Saying, ‘* I should think my meas. ure Would be equal to your arm.” WRLEN CHAUNCRY. THE DIFFICULTY, HE receiver of a street-car line was interrupted in his work the other day by a complaining conductor. : . “Ef you plase, sor, there’s soompthin’ wrong wid t’irty-t’ree.”” “Why, Mike, what is it?” “Shure, sor, the regéster won't regist.”” A CRUEL WORLD. BY WAY OF POSTSCRIPT, Weary Witte —"* Yes, poor old Slobsy lost heart completely an‘ committed suicide, He couldn't BRYAN—Altgeld—Tillman. Initials, BLA. T., “SiS Giaay haces World Re fonger. : Flowery Fietps—' Everybody against him, T suppose?” spell bat, Bat means a vampire, a demon. Weary WitLie—“' Yes; everywhere he went folks wuz offerin’ him jobs.” A FREAK, H, I know a lass who's pretty, entertaining, wise and witty, strong of mind and very gritty, yet when on the street you see her You will note her cloak awry is, that her bonnet all too high is, that, in fact, she quite a guy is—why, no maid would like to be her. Not a glove doth seem to fit her, ‘tisino wonder women titter, talk of her in language bitter when they mect her promenading ; For whatever 's odd she favors, and her taste, it seems, eer savors of the dress- reforming ravers, always strange ideas parading. Lo, her dress is out of fasbfon, it has such a funny sash on, and she shows pe- culiar passion for such singular decoration ; Beads and braid are there in patches, and her parasol ne‘er matches, and her skirt 's so long it hatches comment, stares and cachinnation. Ah, I tried hard to discover, being this strange maiden’s lover, valuing no one above her, what the cause was of her capers ; q And I found out to my wonder that the reason of each blunder was the faith she ‘A NATURAL WAVE IN HER HAIR. placed, by thunder, in a dozen fashion-papers ! NATHAN M. LaVY, GETTING EVEN. A WAY OUT OF IT. (CHARLES AUGUSTUS JONES ran away from home in a fit of Pat — They do say the car nixt the injine be the most dangerous.” desperation and went to sea, hoping to be shipwrecked on a desert Mike — Begorra, then why don’t they lave it off?" isle. He went away because the young lady next door to his father’s house bought a piano on the installment plan and was learning to drum “The maiden’s prayer.” After two years in foreign lands without getting shipwrecked Charles returned home and got even by marrying the girl. AMBIGUOUS. U1, YES, she’s a beautiful player, But yet it is only my duty ‘To explain that I mean not her playing Is beautiful —she is the beauty, LIVES THERE, Crawford — How is it that the janitor of a flat is such an autocrat?" Grimshaw—"\ suppose it’s because wherever he goes 73 PCON he generally gets in on the eae ee eee “TH teach ing wit ” ing) — gine foe (Gacegll 132% you to go. chestnutting without Teave Tommy (escaping) Yer bet I knew my biz when I put dem unshucked chestnuts where I did.”