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# Judge Magazine Page 264 Analysis This page contains multiple satirical items typical of Judge's humor: **"Judges Favorites"** (top left): A photograph captioned "The Davis is 'Way Down East'" with verses about a judge's preferences—likely mocking judicial tastes or a specific judge's decisions. **"Prohibitive"** (top right): A cartoon showing goats at a "Post No Bills" sign. The joke plays on the phrase "prohibitive"—the goats cannot read the prohibition notice, so they proceed to eat anyway. This satirizes the futility of laws or rules that cannot be enforced against all parties. **"A New Process"** and **"Mrs. Murphy's Hope"**: Brief domestic humor pieces about family life and unrealistic expectations. **"A Spring-Time Ode"**: Patriotic verse referencing Spain and military conflict, suggesting this issue addresses early-1900s Spanish-American War tensions. The page exemplifies Judge's mix of visual cartoons, poetry, and short comedic pieces targeting American social and political topics of the era.
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264 dozen arti- cles of wear- ing apparel fit to distrib- ute among my relatives. JUDGE'S FAVORITES PHG:BE DAVIS IN ‘WAY DOWN EAST.” Vhy, Phoebe, are you come $0 soon! Ah, yes! you bring them as a boon— Let me lay New land fruitage wild, in a supply while there is time.” resh hie dews of "way down east, ive the jaded town a feast. SHE OBJECTED. is the house you thought would suit us, is it? Perkasie to her husband, who had been looking new dwelling and who had brought her to see one which selected. “ Yes, this is the one,” “ Well, then, it's too small, It’s a great deal too small. 1 tell you, Mr. Perkasie, that I won't be cribbaged, cabbaged and contined in any such little place as this.” ONLY A VEIL. Harold (after his first day at school)—‘* Mamma, I don’t think I shall like the new teacher very much, ‘cause, don’t you know, she wears an awning.” uage HOPE, AX? what is hope? A telescope That fairest future magnifies ; But one eye sees, All that may please, The other closed to what denies. AN IMPORTANT DUTY, “MY DEAR,” said Mrs. Moribund, withdrawing her gaze from a distance with an effort at determination, “1 am going out shopping.” “Do you think you feel equal to it, my dear?” asked her husband with trepida- Home GoaT—"' Will I tell you where you can get some- tion. thing to eat? Well, I guess not — can't you read that sign on “I must. I have been the fence?” thinking that if I should die I would- n't have a half- A SPRING-TIME ODE. All hail, thou glorious spring-time morn ! . Away with vigil now, and fast, And penitential sighs forlorn, And sound a warlike blast. Out with the trumpet and the drum ! If Spain wants fight now let her come. PROHIBITIVE. TENDER MEMORI T say, my dear friend, have you ever been here before ?” 10, sir. BurcLar— Wipower—" Well, would you mind coming around quite often — say once or twice a week — and going through my trousers, just as you are doing now? You don’t know how much you remind me of my dear departed wife, Angeline. It seems almost as if she were alive again, Good-night, my friend—God bless you !" A NEW PROCESS. ‘ETH entered the house much excited, one morning, after seeing her grandfather at work grafting. “ What do you think ?” she exclaimed. “Grandpa 's out in the orchard vaccinating the apple-trees.”” MRS. MURPHY’S HOPE. MY HUspanp dear, the gypsy said, Would surely die before me, And while I'd gladly go instead This fact does much deplore me : They mayn’t be true, the words she said— I surely hope they will be— For if I should die and he should wed 1 know the blow would kill me, ANOTHER QUESTION. es DAPA.” P “Well?” * How tall is the man who is above criticism ?”* comicbooks.com