Judge, 1899-11-18 · page 3 of 16
Judge — November 18, 1899 — page 3: what you’re looking at
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# Analysis of Judge Magazine Page This page contains several humorous vignettes satirizing domestic life and social conventions of the era: **"A Favorite Dish"**: Rural couple banter about milking and love-making, playing on double meanings. **"A Burnt Sacrifice"**: Wife's cooking disaster—she burned the pumpkin pie, ruining dinner. **"A Necessary Requisite"**: Joke about pumpkin pie being essential; a mother won't visit without guarantee of it. **"Building on Sand"**: Dialogue between Freddy and Cottager about an expert being "proved to be entirely wrong when the truth comes out"—likely mocking overconfident professionals. **"A Royal Send-off"**: Illustration of a figure in a trash bin, possibly political, though unclear without fuller context. **"A Crafty Fellow"**: Wife carefully restricts her husband's shopping to prevent wasteful spending. The humor targets domestic squabbles, female domesticity, and marital economics typical of early 20th-century American satire.
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A FAVORITE DISH. JANE —"'Oh, Josh! Tend to yewr milkin’ and don't be makin’ love tew me!" Jost —" Oh, go long, now! J thought yew liked mush-and-milk.” A BURNT SACRIFICE. ROM cooking college she'd graduated. ‘That dinner was ready they smelt the aroma ; Which finished, her husband was not elated Poor fellow ' he thought she had broiled the diploma. A NECESSARY REQUISITE. DOROTHY had never seen any pumpkin-pie until her first visit to the country, and to her grand- mother’s asking her if she'd have a piece the little girl replied, “No, I thank you, I never eat pie without a roof on it.” BUILDING ON SAND. Freddie —* What is circumstantial evidence ?” Colwigger —"As a general thing it’s the theory of an expert which is proved to be entirely wrong when the truth comes out.” é, . ROYAL SEND-OFF, A CRAFTY FELLOW. First Girt.—‘* There goes Mrs. Newlywed ; her husband is so careful of her health that he will not allow her to go shopping on a wet day.” Second Gint—"* Hum! He probably fears she might get near enough to the counters to buy something.” comicbooks.com