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# Analysis of Judge Magazine Page 214 This page contains several unrelated humor sketches and stories typical of Judge's satirical format: **"A Cheerful Liar"** features domestic humor about Miss Anna's pudding—a servant or employee caught in a small lie about food preparation, representing working-class deception. **"Judge's Favorites"** quotes Josephine in a poem about passion and heartbreak. **"Couldn't Identify Himself"** satirizes bureaucratic absurdity: a man charged with crime cannot prove his identity to authorities who expect him at every minute—commentary on administrative incompetence. **"The Result Accomplished"** presents a brief farming anecdote about religious observance. **"At the Girls' Whist-Club"** shows women playing cards with mild social satire about card games and conversation. The page lacks overt political content, instead offering domestic and social humor targeting middle and working-class American life and social institutions.
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214 A CHEERFUL LIAR. Miss ANNA went into the kitchen one day and made a delectable pudding, leaving it for black Clarinda to bake while she went down town on some errands. Returning late for dinner, she asked for some of the pudding. “Folks done et it all up, Miss ‘a Anna,” said Clarinda. \ “Oh, how provoking! I wanted | to taste it and see if it was good. | Wasn't there just a little left ?” | “No, Miss Anna, not a drap; dey | done et it all up, Folks was hungry ; dis noon.” “Did you bake it nicely, Clar- inda?” asked Miss Anna, trying to elicit some comforting particulars. As she spoke she threw open the oven door and disclosed the pudding serene- ly simmering intact. “Why, Clar- inda!” she exclaimed, “the pudding is here.” “Co’'se it am, Miss Anna. You reckon I gwine lie ‘bout a little thing like dat ?” | N.C. CANDER, Photo, by Sareny. JUDGE'S FAVORITES. JOSEPHINE HALL AS “AURORA” IN “O11! SUSANNAH.” ‘This picture turned unto the wall Can be no other than Jo Hall, Plaving the slavey girl Aurora With all the passion of Fedora, While still concealing in her throat Echoes of * Marv lane's top note.” \ | COULDN'T IDENTIFY HIMSELF. Stranger—* So you tjnched that negro with- out his being charged with any crime at all?” Prominent citizen —" Yes, sah; but we're ex- pecting to heah of the crime every minute, You see, sah, the fellah was a total strangah heah, sah.” THE RESULT ACCOMPLISHED. Deacon Jones —"" What! Not going to church any more? { thought you told me not long ago that you hadn't missed a Sunday in three years?” Farmer Corncrib —* So hadn't. So I hadn't. But what's the use now? Times air gittin’ as good as they ever was.” THE man who has not an enemy may be a good man, but what is he good for? NO MUGWUMP. Cuarity-worker—"* If you'll split that wood I'll give you a meal-ticket.” TRAMP (indignantly)—'* Away wit’ your split tickets, ma’am ! PHYSIOLOGY AND HYGIENE. “*Hyuh, Asa! quit yo" hangin’ by yo" toes, chile; de blood ‘Il run in yo" head an’ kill yo" “Well, 'f stan’ on my feet won’ de blood run in dem, I likes ter know ?” “*Ya-as, yo’ niggah ; but dat’s whar’ 't b'longs.” I'm no cursed mugwump.” Ventern Stan taws] Sanat (yawning) ALICE (indignantly)—“ What stupidity ! “* Wewhat's tramps 2" Why, trumps was the card I tuned up at the end of the deal—whatever that was.” comicbooks.com