Judge, 1901-12-28 · page 31 of 49
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**"A Fable"** satirizes gender stereotypes. A man claims bravery while the woman accepts she's weak—yet when facing a toothache, the "brave" man delays going to the dentist, drinks alcohol for courage, and never gets treatment. The woman simply goes to the dentist and solves her problem. The moral mocks advertising's false claims, but the real joke targets the man's performative masculinity versus the woman's practical competence. **"Hot Air in Boston"** ridicules pretentious intellectual discourse. A boy asks his mother about "bated breath" from fairy tales; she provides a lengthy, circular non-explanation. Meanwhile, snow crashes on the boy, proving that real consequences (gravity, physics) matter more than verbose philosophizing. It's satire of Boston's reputation for overwrought intellectualism disconnected from practical reality. **"Where He Lay"** and the dress-front caricatures appear to be brief satirical quips about real-estate deception and class stereotypes, respectively.
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A FABLE. THE man said, “I am @ creature of bravery and forti- tude.” “That's what you are,” said the woman, and she admired the man greatly. ‘The man said, + You are tender, shrinking, and little fitted to endure the hard knocks of Ii tis even so,” said the woman: and she sighed to think how weak she was. After a time the man had a raging tooth- ache, and for two days the woman tried to pre- vail upon him to go to the denust and have the tooth pulled, but the man said to himself, «It will hurt sorely,” and he would not. But on the morning of the third day the man z y : arrayed himself in his overcoat and said, “1 will hie Z wy me to the dentist and, lo ! the tooth shall be pulled.” Z he sao And on the way the man stopped at a wayside palace {2 Yi Y/, to drink of the red waters of Bacchus, for he kpew that the parting with the tooth would be painful, And at the next wayside. Ciantie (#0ho Aas faken to the men= 7 : ae palace he paused again, and again, and yet again; and when he got fal science theory)—"" Let's Pes aos pace away PiseTao args home he was having a razhedazh time, but the tooth was not pulled Tilson mise eure one that was my stocking.” take long breaths, and say Now it came to pass, a week later, that the woman also had a feind) hel Gedy i wath g toothache, and straightway she put on her new jacket and toque, which were of a kind to gladden a will succeed! Nothing can down mel" "* and the dentist knew him not. dentist, and, saying little, hied her to a dental parlor, and when she returned the tooth was not But the man still sits up with his tooth. ° Moral—The goods on sale are not always precisely what they are advertised to be. ~ j \ y \ j af HOT AIR IN BOSTON. | af Little Emerson—* Mamma, | find no marginal note in elucidation of this expression, which [ |!) il tj \ observe frequently to occur in my volume of * Fairy-tale Classics’—* With bated breath,’ What is \ J the proper interpretation of the phrase?” Mamma —**+With bated breath,’ my son, commonly occurs in fairy tales; your father often - Just then a snow-slide from the roof above descended with such force that Char- lie realized the importance of his body and learned that something could down returns from piscatorial excursions with bate! breath, ‘The phrase in such instances, however, has no significance as applying to the ba ployed to allure the fish, but is merely an elastic term of dubious meaning and suspicious origin, utilized, as I already have intimated, simply be- cause of the sanction which it has gained by customary usa fairy tales generally. Do you comprehend, Emerson Little Emerson— Verfectly, mam 64M son has gone through the barber school,” proudly remarked the thin barber. He WHERE HE LAY. is studying clocution now.” Mrs. Sueves (after they have missed the only Sunday train for the city)—"' George, dear, what- “AKE chanmented thes bald “Hended Sinan, ever induced you to buy a house out in this lonely place, any way ?"" ne Pi Mr. Sususs—" The slickest real-estate man in the business."” “taken it up as a post-graduate course, ch ? WHY HARP ON THE SAMENESS AND LACK OF INDIVIDUALITY IN DRESS FRONTS? HOW DOES THIS SCHEME STRIKE YOU? 1. Gilded youth. 2. Fond lover. 3. Uncle Ikey. 4. Retired brewer. 5. Bloated bond-hclder. “Rastus. comicbooks.com