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This page presents **"Aunt Maria's Helpful Hints,"** satirical domestic advice columns that mock overly complicated or absurd solutions to everyday household problems. The humor targets turn-of-the-century domestic advice literature by proposing deliberately impractical remedies: - **Keeping the furnace running**: Riveting it to the cellar floor with massive iron stakes - **Preventing umbrella theft**: Inscribing your name on every rib, wrapping in tar paper and camphor, hiding it in a trunk - **Stimulating boys' interest in home**: Converting the garage into a full vaudeville theater with live musicians running continuously until midnight The satire mocks the earnest, verbose style of actual ladies' magazines and domestic guides that promised solutions to household management. The joke is that these "solutions" are more elaborate and impractical than the original problems. The page also includes unrelated period advertisements (Bromo-Seltzer, Packer's Tar Soap), typical of Judge's format.

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DEPART- WOMEN’S MENT For the benefit of our women readers in the myriad homes where Juvcc is a favorite, we have entered into an arrangement with the famouseditor of The Perfect Ladies" Companion, Mr. Hik Hok. Any perfect lady among our readers who has troubles of household or heart may go in perfect confidence to Mr. Hok, who will at intervals convey through these pages advice or comfort, as the case may demand. ? JUDGE'S AUNT MARIA'S HELPFUL HINTS. TO KEEP THE FURNACE FROM GOING OUT. | TO KEEP YOUR UMBRELLA FROM BE! Nate it down to the cellar floor with LOST, BORROWED, OR STOLEN. strong rivets, clinched underneath Immediately upon acquiring poss with iron washers about the size of a sion of the umbrella, open it, and with dinner plate. Then drive sixteen heavy 4 pot of red paint inscribe your name iron stakes, six feet long, slantwise into in capital letters between each and the concrete floor until only two inches every rib, both inside and outside. show above the surface, and fasten the Then wrap it up in tar paper plentifully furnace to these by means of strong iron sprinkled with granulated camphor, and chains or steel cubles, securely held to place in the bottom of a Saratoga trunk the iron top of your heater by riveted or an old clothes chest, carefully hiding ring bolts. Bar your cellar door andthe same in a dark corner of the attic, cover all your cellar windows with unless you prefer to send it to your heavy armor-plate shutters, and, unless bank for storage in the safety deposit your house is blown away, the furnace vaults of that institution. The chances will not go out or even think of going are that at the end of the year you will ING 10¢,25¢,50 SELTZER CURES HEADACHES ¢&$199 Bottles, | bank vaults, the cashier or general man- ager of the institution suddenly decamps with everything portable that has been left in his care, TO STIMULATE A HOME INTEREST IN | THE Boys. Take your last year’s garage and have it remodeled into a theater, with a stage large enough to accommodate from ten to fifteen persons. Upon the latter place in a continuous sequence, begin- ning at eleven a. m. and lasting until midnight, the best variety of vaudeville talent that can be secured, the meterial preferably to be obtained fresh and di- rect from the New York continuous houses, A small band of musicians to frame of mind for several days. If, in addition to this, you are able to flood your attic floor and turn the same into ja well-ventilated skating rink, you-will find no difficulty in leading your son to believe his home a place worth using for other purposes than those of merely sleeping and eating. TO KEEP YOUR FEET DRY IN WET WEATHER WITHOUT THE USE OF GALOSHES, On waking in the morning, raise your window shades to a height of seven inckes and look out at the weather, tak- ing care to ascertain whether or not it is really wet. On finding that it is wet, fill your hot-water bag half full with out. P YOUR PIPES FROM FREEZ~ ING IN WINTER. How TO Early in September send for your plumber and have him remove the pipes carefully from all sections of your house. Boil them thoroughly for four hours, and then cover them with three coats of paint of a good warm color, top- ping these off with two coatings of varnish, Wrap them in absorbent cot- ton saturated with tabasco sauce, held in place by a tubing of oil silk, and store away in a warm spot near your furnace or behind the kitchen range. In extreme weather an oil stove should be lit within two feet of them and kept burning until the temperature rises to forty-five or forty-six degrees. If left in this condition until the middle of June, or at least till the apple trees be- gin to blossom, you will have no further trouble with them. TO KEEP YOUR WIFE FROM BECOMING A SUFFRAGETTE. Remain single. If You Want Hair When Old SOAP The cleansing, antiseptic and tonie properties PACKER’S TAR of it pure pine-tar, glycerine and sweet vege- tubl- oils have given it an exclusive character, with unvarying results, for over 35 years. THE PACKER MFG. CO., New York still be in possession of the desired ob- ject, unless your house is destroyed fire, or, if you have placed it in the CHANGE THE VIBRATION. IT MAKES FOR HEALTH. by] accompany the songs of the performers tepid water and place the same under will add much to the attractiveness of | the blankets on your bed, after which this adjunct to the home life, which| climb back into bed again, taking with under proper and careful management | you an absorbing novel, and read this should suffice to keep the lads in a happy | without stirring from your couch until A man tried leaving off meat, pota-| toes, coffee, ete., and adopted a break- | fast of fruit, Grape-Nuts with cream, some crisp toast, and a cup of Postum. His health began to improve at once, for the reason that a meat eater will reach a place once in a while where his system seems to become clogged and the machinery doesn’t work smoothly. A change of this kind puts aside food of low nutritive value and takes up food and drink of the highest value, already partly digested and capable of being quickly changed into good, rich blood and strong tissue. A most valuable feature of Grape- Nuts is the natural phosphate of potash grown in the grains from which it is made. This is the element which trans- forms albumen in the body into the soft gray substance which fills brain and nerve centers. A few days’ use of Grape-Nuts will give one a degree of nervous strength well worth the tri Look in packages for the little book, “The Road to Wellville.”’ ** There’s a Reason.”"" * Niver another drop will I take Whin I git so ossyfied thet I buy oranges ‘on Saint Patrick's day, it's time to quit."” Emma said, ‘In my heart there's a place For the man who great things dares embrace Said a listener, ‘‘ Confound her, T'll throw both arms around her And show what great things I Em-brace." In answering advertisements please mention JUDGE. the weather clears. You may then go out without your galoshes without any fear of dampness. Repeat this on all damp days, and you will never suffer from wet feet, unless the hot-water bag bursts, which is a matter having noth- ing to do with the meteorological con- ditions this recipe is designed to meet. TO KEEP THE CHILDRE f Immediately upon the receipt of the pernicious book, take the same and soak it over night in a warm liquid solution of black ink and common garden muci- lage, one half of each. This done, set the book to dry in the middle of a hot loven. FROM READING 10US BOOKS. It will be appreciated. comicbooks.com