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# Judge Magazine Page 38 - Analysis This page contains multiple satirical sketches and humorous pieces typical of Judge's format: **"Judge's Favorites"** and **"To an Unknown"** are poems celebrating actress Maggie Edna King and expressing romantic admiration for an unknown woman with blue eyes. **"How He Acted"** mocks a man's poor reasoning skills through dialogue about his daughter's hand in marriage. **"The Lovers"** appears to satirize romantic courtship conventions and marriage proposals. **"Superfluous Vowels"** jokes about excessive vowel usage in speech—Lord Nabob's affected "a's" are mocked. **"Perhaps That Is Why,"** **"A Long List,"** **"Must Cause Discomfort,"** and **"Just About Right"** are brief humor pieces about doctors, proposals, mystery, and definitions respectively. The page primarily features light social satire aimed at middle-class romance, speech affectations, and professional conduct rather than political commentary.
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HOW HE ACTED. jou asked old Crusty for his daughter's hand? How did he act?” R Vby, when I tried to reason with him he wanted to eat me, and ended by kicking me down stairs.” ALGY—"* Oh, then it was a feast of reason and a flow of sole, so to speak.” Yee JUDGE'S FAVORITES, MADGE. ELLIS. Only comparative The value of Masge | Before ber English visit gave ber j A‘kind of an Imported flavor Now, she has but to sing and smile, and You'd think New Vork was Bills Island TO AN UNKNOWN. { LADY. if there's bonny bie t In your sparkling eyes, } Though I am unknown to you | Til swear by azure skies. | If, instead, your eyes are gray, Of sunny skies I'll tire ; It will take a cloudy day To fill my heart's desire. Fair unknown whom I adore, If your eyes are black, Spades are trumps forevermore While I hold the pack. Scarce I know what may be said If your eyes are brown ; THE LOVERS, Bat if tears have made them red— SUR (on right of picture, timidly)—" Will Sidney forgive his birdie if she asks a favor of him?” Sure I'll paint the town ! (woarmly)—* Sidney kin refuse his Hortense nothink.”” BESCIE WENORICKS. with a choking sensation) — Then ask him to play a weddin’-march.” PERHAPS THAT IS WHY. SWVHEN:a doctor is ill he invariably calls in another physician to treat him, but one tailor never goes to another for a sult of clothes.” “Well, a doctor who treats a doctor never sends a bill for his services.” A LONG LIST. se] HAVE received nineteen pro- posals in the last two months.” “You don’t say. What a large number of suitors you must have. Whom were the proposals from?" * One from Charlie and eighteen from that French count.” MUST CAUSE DISCOM- “™* FOR * OW Mrs. Hasheroft gets along ‘A mystery appears ; I know my trunk is in her eye, My rent is in arrears, JUST ABOUT RIGHT. F ; Bobby— Pa, what is a Nemesis?” Tave you noticed how Lord Slabsides drops his aspirants 7° 7. —* Oh, but that's nothing to the way he drops his vowels — papa says he has Pa—" The first wile of a bigamist, got more than a dozen of his j-o-u's.”” Bobby.” SUPERFLUOUS VOWELS. comicbooks.com