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This page satirizes the pretentious moral sensibilities of wealthy households. The main article by Carolyn Wells mocks society women who claim to care about cruelty while treating kitchen servants brutally. The satire works through **absurdist inversion**: the author solemnly catalogs the "cruelties" servants inflict on *inanimate food items*—beating cream and eggs, stoning raisins, cutting bread—while implying the servants themselves receive harsh treatment without sympathy. When a servant gets a cut finger, they receive only "gashes of bread" in return. The accompanying cartoon "What Johnny Thought of Papa" presents a related joke: a child innocently suggests his father would make an excellent "taxidermist" (one who stuffs animal skins), implying the father is cold, lifeless, or emotionally dead—likely a commentary on patriarchal indifference. The top strip shows burglars mistaking each other for homeowners, unrelated social commentary. The piece critiques upper-class hypocrisy: drawing-room refinement masking kitchen cruelty toward working-class domestic help.

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ANOTHER CASE OF MISTAKEN IDENTITY. Burelar Bill-"Gentleman b Clever idea. Here's where dark lantern and mask and go in the business right. — No more porch eli with these swell rags on Il go right in the front door like I owned bing for mine Mos. Lads bu (inside) — the place.— —This place looks easy. I'll try it.” Hm! Two am. SS ESSA Burglar Bill up. I'm “Wow! Help! Let ur husband, 1d that beast of ahusband not home; Dm that must be him now, I hear a noise.” CRUELTY IN THE KITCHEN. NTH wrongs and bringing them to publ E days of hunting up crying notice, in an article which (in the ctus) grips the reader's at- ged to call pros tention, we feel privi attention to some cruelty in the house- f WHAT JOHNNY THOUGHT OF PAPA. Johnny—"" Pa, what is a taxidermist ?"” Mr. Gourmand. Johnny— (Long silence.) “A man who stuffs skins. by CAROLYN WELLS. cream gets a whipping without deserv- And, too, afterward, the poor ase may be) is closet, there to st: for several hours ese things ought not to be, and yet an investigation of ing it! cream (or rich, as the shut up in adar Mr. Gourmand—‘' Well, what's on your mind ?'* Johnny— Oh, nothin’. hold that, even when known, is condoned by members of our first families. Discipline is all very well, and in rare cases castigation is permissible; but we ask of you, gentle matrons, tender- hearted mothers of children, do you think it right to allow an ignorant, un- educated servant girl to whip the cream? To be sure, if the cream is bad, that is another matter; but how often good 1 was just thinkin’ what a fine taxidermist you 'd make."’ the average kitchen would show an even worse state of affairs. I have known these uncurbed servant girls to beat eggs! eggs, who never were bad in their lives! And yet bad eggs never are beaten! Thus we see the injustices of a cold world. A still more barbarous practice is that Simple, good little of stoning raisins—sweet-natured, soft little roly-poly raisins! They never did anybody any harm (unless he too many of them), and they have n of retali It is a nature of inborn cruelty that would stone an inoffensive means tion. raisin, But such natures there be. Such a one would even pound almonds! In a fair fight pounding is one thing, but de- liberately to pound an almond, just be- cause you are bigger than he is, is the essence of mean: To cut bread is another unnecessary cruelty. An accidental cut on one’s own finger is hastily bound up and the poor patient showered with kindly sym- pathy; but gash after gi is given toa loaf of bread, without s offer of a clean linen rag or a bottle of antiseptic solution! But enough has been said to turn the attention of the public to these atroci- ties. It is for the public to take up the matter and insist upon having in their kitchens the same loving and humane much as an spirit that obtains in their drawing: THE VITAL POINT. Lady visiter—"' My poor man! For what have they imprisoned you ?"" Lock-itep Luke—"' Fer six months, believe me, lady.” comicbooks.com