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This page contains multiple humor columns mocking small-town American life and character types. "Reflections of Uncle Ezra" critiques pretentious behavior—specifically a woman wanting a changeable silk dress, which Uncle Ezra views as wasteful vanity. "Judge's Favorite" presents humorous anecdotes about local eccentrics: a girl named Lulu who can't walk straight, Hank Peters with his oversized woodshed, and various other colorful townspeople. The bottom illustration labeled "Chinese to Him" depicts a conversation about Chinese garments, appearing to joke about cultural misunderstanding or the exotic nature of foreign dress to American audiences. Overall, the page satirizes rural/small-town pretension, eccentricity, and cultural unfamiliarity in early 20th-century America through folksy humor and character sketches.

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JUDGE'S FAVORITE LULU GLASER INO MLE. MISCHIEF Of all the birds that fly the air Of which I've ever Of dulcet song e me the to saw off six or eight inc lopsided. He has sawed wood most all winter. heart to walk around on it. Hank knocked his brains out, Hi Spink says when he helped th through he went down t hours without stoppin’. never heard of a hall tree, 1 gi Anse Judson says he has got on York, must be ki police have kept h box most of the time. I see by the papers another New York girl is goin’ to marry a foreign count. I never heard of acount that wasn’t a foreign nthe sweat- one, Deacon Stubbs says they have got a drink down to York called a pussy cafe when a feller drinks on: like he was livin’ nine lives all at once, Deacons at home and deacons away from home is evi- dently two kinds of d Mrs, Ansel Jimkey has to wear a thirty-nine-cent cali wrapper to socials, funerals, and other society events, and she is thinkin’ some of suin’ Anse for divorce on the grounds of incom- patibility of expenditure, When Hod Peters was down York he kicked because he nd a suspender button in the hash, Some folks is ne fied, He probably wa f clothes. ons. satis- ted a | whole suit of it every da ff enough already to keep him in stove The last wooden leg h a weepin’ willer, and he says it looked so pat ers fell off'n Anse Judson’s barn the other day and Hank don’t mind it much, as he has since got a job as chorus man with a musical comical show. If Foraker did get $15,000 out of the proves that he is not only a statesman, but a pretty good diplomat. hardest time he minister put up a stov: pretty near busted, holdin’ back so much ind Perkins's mi By ginger! 1 have spent: most of my lif 8 somebody is a nature faker. Bud Hicks, of this town, who is spendin’ the winter in New in* nice and warm, as he writes home that the REFLECTIONS OF UNCLE A CONVENIENT EZRA. FAILING. ZPURDY'S wife has 66 HY DID you E got a new change- walk out dur- able silk dress, By ing the sermon?" gravy! if 1 was a “Couldn't help woman I wouldn't want a I'ma somnambulist.” silk dress that 1 couldn't change once in a while if I THE BALANCE. “ly S to me,” re three kinds of says the common fellers that ought to leave consumer, “that you honssracih? alors are and Carbon should be old fellers, youn) cand the wealthiest’ men in midd fellers. only this community. ones er make any Vl tell you how money follerin’ the hosses it is, ins Frij- jidd, the ic “In PRUDENT the summer Carbon buys The house his ice of me, and in th winter | buy my coal ¢ him. ‘The conseque one offsets the other, and the of cur town an—* Jump out, lady! demanded higher education for their kids, be th top of Lookout Hill, which is the highest in this town- “Impossible! “The doctor sd me nder any eireu : stance the school d to build new xehool-house up ¢ rd has ¢ isn’t anything left for either of us.” . UP TO DATE. 66 T UNDERSTAND,” says the travel- er in Arkansas, that your razor- back hogs down here are really danger- ous if they bee “They used the native; “* but we-all down yo"-all up th We don’t raise nothin’ but safety-razor-back hogs now Grandpa Hanks has got anew wooden leg made out'n a Normandy popular ti and it grows so fast he has , 80 that he won't walk had was made out'n are ic he didn’t have the THE SHEATH GOWN. IKE other fads that T-vill “tendure, though, should frst on sure That they are Luilt that way, Standard Oil Company, it er had in his life was once and fit the pipe. Hi nguage, but after he got for three A VULGAR WORD. Mixx Pare Venne— Oh, maw, there ‘s Mrs, Brown up the steps! My! 1 look bellicose to-da: Mra, Pare Venue vulgar language, daughter, Say adipose. n't help being stout." and cus: ** Don't use suen in the woods, and I CHINESE ‘TO HIM. Farrdll— heription manes, Dinny Finnrgan not quoite sure, but Oi think a free thranslation would be *2,000 shirts, 6,000 collars, an” 1,000 pairs av cuffs.” comicbooks.com