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This page contains architectural satire and society gossip typical of Judge's humor circa the early 1900s. **Top Section:** Four whimsical suburban home designs mock pretentious American architectural trends. Each absurd structure (policeman's cottage with unusual walks, doctor's mansion, elderly gentleman's residence, sea captain's land-house) satirizes how wealthy Americans blindly copied European styles without originality. **"Personal Gossip" Section:** Satirizes wealthy elites and public figures: - References to **Ambassador Whitelaw Reid** and **John Hays Hammond** spending lavishly at coronation festivities, mocking Republican hypocrisy about "simplicity" - Jabs at **Chauncey Depew** (aging politician humorously getting younger) - **Andrew Carnegie's** coronation commentary criticized as hypocritical vanity - Mockery of prolific but forgetful novelist **Robert W. Chambers** - Social Register gossip about wealthy criminals escaping prosecution **Bottom Cartoon:** A woman mistakes a wealthy Klondike gold-striker eating corn with gold-handled implements for someone playing a tune on a rolling-pin—satirizing nouveau-riche absurdity and pretentious wealth displays.

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ORIGINALITY IN THE DESIGNING OF SUBURBAN HOMES WOULD MAKE ANY LOCALITY MOST ATTRACTIVE. ‘The policeman’s cozy cottage, show- A home typically well This style of residence might be A land home ing an unusual arrangement of suited for the man of ‘‘ just the thing" for an elder- forthe sea-far- front entrance walks, medicine. ly gentleman. ing man, PERSONAL GOSSIP. E believe it is a historic them, the Hon. Whitelaw Reid, our am- may we ask, has become of our once fact that the Astor for- bassador at the Court of St. James, and vaunted Republican simplicity? «% tune was originally made in| Mr. John Hays Hammond, special envoy It is said that somebody asked Robert ; furs. Thus, Rollo,dowesee to the coronation, spent not less than W. Chambers the other day what the a the truth of that old saying fifteen dollars during the festivities of name of his last novel was, to which the that the skins of the fathers that function. If this be true, what, gentleman replied that he didn’t know, are visited upon the children, even unto because he hadn’t writ- the third and fourth generation. | ten it yet. It really be- Chauncey Depew is said to be grow- gins to look as if some ing younger every day. We are glad to of our thirty-thousand hear it. Nevertheless, even if ulti- six-best-sellers were be- mately we find the ex-Senator back in ginning to think about his perambulator again, we sincerely their English. hope his humor will re- A careful reading of main unchanged. It is the summer edition of good to be reminded now the reliable New York and then when our Chaun- Social Register divulges cey speaks that even in the interesting and very those grim old days of the gratifying fact that, de- early Greeks there was a spite the activities of the flourishing brand of custom house inspectors American humor always and United States dis- on tap. trict attorneys, none of Governor Foss, of Mas- the metropolitan smart sachusetts, has been send- set are spending the heat- ing the Legislature a mes- ed term in jail. sage a day for the past Mr. Andrew Carnegi> month or two, We un- emitted a few periods derstand a petition is go- anent the coronation ing the rounds of both the which seemed to indicate senate and the assembly that he thinks such things of the commonwealth all pomp and vanity. begging his excellency to All the same, we rather cut these down to a postal- opine that if the British picture card until the crown were made of overburdened lawmakers steel instead of glass have had a chance to and gilt thrifty Andy catch up with the mes- would be found on the sages already written. A RARE TREAT. job. Among the flotsam and “Ob, mamma, look at that gentleman going to play a tune on a rolling-pin with —= jetsam of post-coronation gloves on!"" A MAN may be a social “* No, Emerson, my dear, that is a person who has struck gold in the Klondyke lion and yet have the gossip is the scandalous eating his corn with handles placed in the ends. Presently you shall see him cooling statement that, between his after-dinner coffee in his saucer.'’ manners of a bear. comicbooks.com