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# Judge Magazine Page 164 - Satirical Content Analysis This page contains multiple short satirical pieces and jokes typical of Judge's humor: **"A Juvenile Idea"**: Dark humor about a child being sent to loot a butcher shop during a fire—satirizing either urban poverty or children's callousness. **"A New Combination"**: Mocks John D. Rockefeller's monopolistic control, joking that he now controls poetry itself since he dominates sugar (refined from sugar cane) and oil, the "sweetness and light" that define good poetry. **"A True Incident"**: Parodies the emerging "bicycle ambulance corps" (a novelty of the 1890s) by having the surgeon care more about his own bicycle's condition than the injured youth's life. **"Excessive Prudence"**: A brief joke about Jack being called economical merely for not spending more than he makes. The remaining items are minor verses and comic exchanges. The page reflects Judge's typical mix of topical satire, social observation, and puns aimed at educated readers familiar with contemporary figures like Rockefeller and emerging urban fads like cycling.
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164 A JUVENILE IDEA. “Hey, Jimmy ! run an git a baskit as quick as you kin. Dere’s a butcher-shop afire an’ you kin git all de roas'-beef w'ot you kin eat.” Slmer Chickering. FAVORITES. HAM Such beauty, oft, of form and face, For heart and talent leaves no place; But that with you 18 not the case, Amelia Kingham, Your charms are true the whole way A TRUE INCIDENT. HERE had been a smash-up and the young bicyclist lay insen- sible on the ground in the tangled wreck of his wheel, With a clatter and clang the surgeon of the bicycle ambulance corps arrived on the scene, The sight that met his eyes blanched even his stern face. Hurriedly jumping to the ground, he ran to And that is why E sing ‘em. A NEW COMBINATION. **PROCKEFELLER even con- trols poetry now.” “How do you make that out?” “A great critic de- fined poetry as a com- bination of sweetness and light, and doesn’t Rocke- COMING. where the youth lay feller control both sugar «Tidak you not" aald the soph th tha’ wld tale, groaning. and oil?" * My mustache is becoming ?” After fifteen minutes" ‘The maiden answered, as his eye she met, careful examination the AT A BIRD-SHOW. “It may be coming, but it isn’t here yet !” surgeon arose, “Any Aunt Sarah (before hope ?”"asked a bystander. acage of white pigeons) — “Oh, itl come around all right,” he answered, “ Tire punctured, “For my part I like the five spokes out, handle-bar broken, rear wheel smashed to pieces, and birds best with colored > sa ip \\ one pedal missing, but with careful attention it can be fixed up as good foliage.” f \ < y as new. Same make of wheel as mine,” and with that the ambulance surgeon remounted and sped away, while a sympathizing citizen carried the youth into his house and tried to stanch the flow of blood. Me LAMDSURGH WILSON. EXCESSIVE PRUDENCE. +6 JACK. spends all he makes." “If that’s all he spends he must be economical.” A POPULAR PERIODICAL. «SAY ONLY books Were woman's looks, And folly all they taught me.” So runs the lore Of Thomas Moore, And here 's the thought it brought me. Down by the sea [meet Marie Successive summer seasons. A saucy chit With clever wit For stratagems and treasons. Mer heart indeed SE NSWERE I cannot read, Miss Ancient Grwoans: trorsf= Mabel wee you aeatoy ae anna OP eos Manta cay slamber young men we just passed ?° “ — , ’ Fiddle and sly, ManeL—"* Indeed | wasn’t, auntie, U call her my “Then I should like to know who they were Midsummer-fiction number. CAROLYN watts. “THE LONG AND SHORT OF IT.” comicbooks.com