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This page satirizes the American summer-boarding phenomenon. The lead poem mockingly contrasts city dwellers' comfortable homes with their anticipated rustic vacation accommodations—luxurious bedrooms versus "six by nine" rooms, quality furnishings versus corn-husk beds, and peaceful evenings versus mosquito-infested nights. The satire targets the romantic myth of pastoral summer retreats. The "Why Harold's Hair Turned Gray" comic sequence illustrates this gap between expectation and reality. Harold reads enticing descriptions of country pleasures (horseback rides, hay-scented air, watching farmers' daughters milk cows), then experiences the actual miserable conditions: extreme heat, uncomfortable sleeping, and disappointing "attractions." The other brief jokes ("Taxing Luxuries," "Riley's Remorse") employ similar logic—mundane situations treated with exaggerated importance, typical of Judge's light satirical humor. The page targets middle-class aspirations and the era's popular vacation trend, suggesting that idealized country retreats rarely matched promotional promises.

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THE LAST LOOK. ET'S take another look about the house before we go; Observe the large and airy rooms we'll soon no longer kno ‘The paintings aud the draperies that charm and rest the ey ‘The very rugs and carpets that so richly, softly lie. Take notice of your bedroom with its clean, inviting bed; The pillows that seem longing to relieve your aching head ; While I glance in my den and note its comforts just once more— And then we must be going, for the cab is at the door. i Farewell to all that goes to reconcile a man to life, ay lie : RK niin vo wth ‘And all that tends to make a happy woman of his wife! We're off for Rocky Homestead, where the air is, oh, so fine !— ‘And where the most expensive rooms are only six by nine. Again we'll see the sun rise o'er the top of Monkey's Head— While trying to secure some sleep upon a corn-husk bed ; We'll spend such happy ev'nings where the merry children play, Or slap at the mosquito as it sings along its way. , ; wy So let’s be gay and joyful as we hurry to the train, Way For all the summer blessings are to be our own again; AN Bat let us take another glance at all we hold so dear— wee “Twill be a cherished mem'ry when we're far away from here. » WALLACE DUNBAR VINCENT. Mns, BuTTERFLY—"'See here, you brute! You've been kissing that stuck-up Miss Rose again. Don’t deny it, for I can smell the perfume.” DREADFUL REVENGE. +» PUT how,” they asked of the French count, “will you wreak vengeance on this man?” “T shall call him a coward, and when I leave I shall slam the door real hard. Ha, ha! I laugh!” TAXING LUXURIES. First suminer boarder—"\ settled with our landlord yes- terday, and I'll be hanged if he didn't try to charge me two dol- lars extra for seeing his freckle-faced daughter, Sarah Ann, get married to that red-haired Tubbs boy that’s been coming to see RILEY'S REMORSE. her so often.” Mrs. Ritey—"* Vis; jist befoor me b'y Danny wor taken sick Riley missed his collar- Second summer boarder— That's nothing. I settled this button an’ licked fer shtalin’ . oo oe aid the Diy shtale it?" morning, and the old rapscallion tried to gouge me for an extra * Mrs. Rites livin ferbid! no. Whin Riley took aff his shirt noine weeks afther fiver for the fall of Pretoria, which occurred while I was with the b’y’s dith the collar-button rolled out on the floor, an’ the thing ’s prayin’ on his moind.” 1, Haron (reading the following in a summer-resort guide-book)—* Here one can enjoy themselves every minute. How delight- ful to take a horse-back ride every morning, to smell the new-mown hay, to watch the farmer's daughter milk, or, after dinner, sit in the cool shade and listen to the fruit drop.” 7 That settled it. The very next day Harold 8. Smelling the new-mown hay (some Swiss cheese went to the country to enjoy these delights. \ oy | | SMES 4. Watching the farmer's daughter milk. 5. The only ‘cool shade” he could find was in _6, Here he'listened to the fruit drop and pop all the cellar. day long. WHY HAROLD'S HAIR TURNED GRAY. comicbooks.com