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This page collects several Christmas-themed short stories and jokes typical of early 20th-century satirical magazines. **"Color-Blind"** is a sentimental poem by John Kendrick Bangs about a man who cannot distinguish colors yet perceives his beloved Phyllis's beauty through love—her rosy cheeks, golden hair, blue eyes—suggesting emotional sight transcends physical limitation. **"Thwarted Her"** and **"No Hard Feelings"** are brief humorous anecdotes: the first about a wife's plan to humiliate her husband with an ugly necktie backfiring; the second about an accident victim philosophically accepting a driver's apology because he's the heir to the driver's insurance settlement. **"An Author's Christmas"** mocks literary rejection through a writer's modest expectations. **"Obsessed"** satirizes holiday shopping mania—the compulsion to buy gifts for everyone regardless of expense. **"Foiled"** presents a young man's romantic plan defeated when the girl pragmatically reveals she doesn't believe in Santa Claus, implying she won't accept fantasies. The page represents Judge's characteristic blend of sentimental verse and domestic comedy targeting middle-class readers.

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COLOR-BLIND. on I could not tell you if you asked the color of my ink, But well I know, though blind 1 that Phyllis’s cheek the: I know not one from t’other, but. { need not e’er be told, Despite this aw ful blindness, that my Phyllis's hair is gold. When autumn comes upon the scene, And with her frosty brush Turns all the tender summer ger On hedge, and tree, and ‘To gorgeous, flashing hue: I know it not, but Lean see And when the br Of heav And speaks of that supernal home Where dwells eternal love They tell me it is blue, and I believe the story true, Tnot rejoiced to know that Phyllis eyes were blue 7 genius spread, red. For ha JOMN KENDRICK BANGS. THWARTED HER. 66] BELIEVE, just for a j “that I'll show you folks the lov nt_me with his first Christmas pres ays the wife, letter ent John s to me. “Yes, do, at the guests get that hand- the same time."” suggests John grimly, winking “and I'll go up to the attic and inted necktie you sent me at Country teacher Willie, 1 h your face. Now, go back you can’t get that dirty water off y head.” Willie won't re: ent you out nd see if ur fore- “t's Me shirt-tail ch any furc , mum, automobile, sorry, and 1 hoy M color-blind as I can be OMING to as I know not red from Gt his machi green, ins I could not tell an ground. But From that's “I'm profound but ight, vas my rich une when sunane patnna’e ing a husidred-dolla k accident policy for ten Meakin This ix the first time T could ever get action on it. If your In wondrous symphe is broken, I'l pay half the repair bill. And all the prism se 3s to tise - FELT THE AFTER-EFFECTS COMING. From out the misty 66 CYL, WILLIE!” exclaimed the little girl next door, come on over and ** Don't bother m want to be left alon “ LL, Seribb! * Not very 4 for a joke, and a dun from the butcher."” AN NO NARD FEELINGS. udden stop, the driver of the automobile jumps out + and runs back to where his vietims lie upon the, of them is alive, and he is seriously hurt, sorry this h sth it was ot a you will allow me to settle whate t you will not feel hi friend, man from the 1. Lam deeply er damages pened, naceident I could rshly toward me. sighs the surviving victim, “That and Lam his only heir, and, besides, 1 Ip me play with my Christmas thing: 1 just had my Christmas dinner, and 1 now! AN AUTHOR'S CHRISTMAS. boy, how did Santa use you?” I got three rejections, two dollars srously. ARCTIC CIRCLE OBSESSED. as SSeS —— Se OW appre ason when, for ery n son, in acquires the notion he must unter out and bu N Something. mo: names ex Yet with fe or how » for a list of as ocean as to what mi 1 must carry presents nd Harr 8, aunts, a ars and his wait- ilor ** hollers, must ive to many others something pretty from a jon there isn ly toddle to perform the ne old stun a variation ‘There is not every fellow in ere- ation Gets the fever in his noddle stands the brunt. .onana w nl the tailor SELON, FOILED, 66 ARAMINTA,” sighed the youth, about a week before Christmas, **what would you think if Santa Claus brought enraptured A MOURNFUL. “You say we must be good, and not want th we won't get anything. It ain't'a very hopeful Christmas, is it, grandpa?” OUTLOOK. gs we haven't got; and you say if we're bad me to you as Christmas present?” “What would I think?” asked Araminta, in cold, even tones, “I shouldn’t think anything. You knew Idon’t believe in Santa Claus."” comicbooks.com