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This page from the satirical magazine *Judge* contains several unrelated humor pieces targeting domestic life and social pretensions of the era. **"Cheap, Quick, and Painless"** mocks rural folk through a dialogue about disposing of a pig—Miranda's suggestion that Josh use an automobile instead of butchering reveals rural unfamiliarity with modern technology, treated as comic naïveté. **"A Warning"** satirizes workplace behavior, where a man's rubber neck (literal flexibility or metaphorical gullibility) causes distraction and job loss—possibly commentary on easily distracted workers. **"Too Narrow a Margin"** jokes about relying on divine providence while complaining about inconvenient train schedules—mocking religious faith's impracticality. **"Happy Hints"** parodies home advice columns by proposing absurd solutions: converting a piano into an ice-box, and furnishing a dining room with stolen silverware from various hotels. The "chorus-girl" references suggest satirizing theatrical workers' modest means and questionable ethics. The overall tone ridicules working-class and lower-middle-class domestic struggles through exaggeration and absurdist suggestions.

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CHEAP, QUICK, AND PAINLESS. Josh-—"* Say, Miranda, I'm 100 soft-hearted to butcher that pig to-morrow, and it costs too much to hire a man to do it Miranda—* Well, Josh, why don't yew tie him in the road and let an automobile run over him."’ A Warning. HS, NECK 0 much of rubber held, Or so it was announced, That when a maiden he beheld Its twistings were unparalleled. All thoughts of labor were dispelled, And therefore he was “bounced.”* HEARD IN THE AIR. Saturn —"* Hello, old sport ! great milky way.’ Moon —"* Nothi: arter ? Too Narrow a Margin. wee HE LORD will provide!’ "’ quoted “* Thope so," retorted his worried wife. “« But it would be a heap sight less wearin’ on a body's nerves if the manna trains did- n't make quite such close connections. ”” HE SERVANT in the house is worth two in the employment agency. Let 's take a stroll down the Don’t you see I'm o2 my last JUDGE Happy Hints for the Home. A New Household Department conducted by * Old Uncte Tommyrot."* edie gitls may Bnd little hints wich will How To Make an Ice-box Out of an Upright Piano. O MANY of my dear little girl friends on the stage have written me for hints as to home comfort in the flat that I have hit upon an excellent suggestion that will tend to increase the conveniences of a small apartment. The limited size of many of the apartments of my chorus-girl friends precludes the presence of both ice-box and piano, so I would suggest a combination effect in these two useful and ornamental household adjuncts. Now that so many girls are at work, the theatrical season be- ing well under way so that songs need not be rehearsed in the flat, I would suggest that the upper part of the upright piano be converted into a home-made refrigerator. Directions: Open the top of the piano, and with a sharp pair of scissors carefully cut some sheet tin into squares to form the ice-holding insert. With a stout needle and thread, sew the tin at the edges to form the four si and bottom. The lid of the piano will serve equally well as the top to the ice- box. Having made the tin box as directed, no, being careful not to To keep the contents of hang inside the touch the strinj the ice, the bottom with powdered char- coal. Any that is left over will come in handy later as a denti- frice. Next add a drain pipe, which you may cut in sufficient length with a stout pair of scis- sors from the parlor gas fixtures. box sweet and clean, cover A Neat Way To Furnish the Dining-room. The following suggestions are based on the actual experience of one of my dear girls, who, being with a comic opera, was compelled to travel most of the year. But she remembered the little ones at home, and from time to time sent them presents. The silverware for the flat was d with great care at the ent fashionable restaurants nd hotels of various citi with great taste and discreti no two articles were selected alik: idea of having every spoon, knife, and fork different, and marked with adifferentname, is a popular fad with some of my chorus- girl friends. The tab’e linen was selected in the same way, and even the sheets and towels bore different marks, indicating the hotel and town from which they had been It took nearly three collected as souvenirs. * HONOR TO WHOM HONOR IS DUE.” She—"" Oh, deat sit—allow me to kiss you, sir— you have saved me from a watery grave. He—"* You will bave to kiss the dog, I think, lady. He was the one what rescued you.”” months to get enough china and glassware, but even this was accomplished by industry and Unfortunatel, how- ever, large cut-glass bowls and teapots, be- ing bulky, cannot be collected easily in this way, and I would advise my girls contem- plating fitting up a flat to purchase these articles at some convenient department store. A few pictures, taken at random from the walls of hotel rooms that have been tastefully decorated, may be brought home in the trunk, if care is taken to select only the smaller frames, The large ones take up too much room and are likely to be missed. perseverance. Expectation. by ESTELLE MAY NOLTE. OXE SWEETLY solemn thought Comes to me o'er and o'er— Whene’er I see my verse in print It means one check the more. ONE VIEW OF IT. Chinaman—" You telle me where railroad depot White—‘* What's the matter, John; are you | Chinaman—" No, me here; depot lost."” comicbooks.com