Judge, 1912-06-29 · page 22 of 25
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This is primarily an **advertising page** with one satirical column. The advertisements promote hotels, whiskey, and the "Hip-Fit" trouser support system—typical early 20th-century commerce. The sole satirical content is **"The Suburban Gentleman"** column (top right), conducted by "Prof. Wilberforce Jenkins, R.F.D." It mocks affluent urban professionals attempting country living. The humor lies in the impractical "scarecrow" suggestion: placing a sleeping hired farmworker in a Morris chair (an expensive, comfortable piece of indoor furniture) in the garden. The joke is that the worker's snoring will frighten crows—treating a human laborer as garden equipment, while also satirizing the gentleman's ignorance of actual farming. It's a class-conscious jab at wealthy dilettantes playing at rural life with comical incompetence, presenting absurd "advice" with mock seriousness.
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Edionn snd ‘Atty | tently commend an infallible guide | SHORT-STORY | WRITING ry cage Uy 3 Berg The Suburban Gentleman. (A Department Specially Designed to Promote the Welfare asd Happiness of Persons Seeking for the First Time the Delights of Country Life.) Conducted by Prof. Wilberforce Jenkins, R. F. D, AN EXCELLENT scarecrow for the protection of your freshly planted garden can be made of one plain, every. day, common-garden hired man and a Morris chair, placed in the center of your flower patch. The automatic ac- tion of the hired man snoring while ly- ing prone on the soft cushions of the chair serves to terrify the crows and is far more effective than a Panama hat placed on top of your last year's dress coat wrapped around a laundry pole. It possesses the additional value of afford- ing constant employment for the hired man, A very effective method of prevent. ing your neighbor's hens from scratch- ing up your plants and seeds is to build a concrete irrigating ditch, seven feet wide and two feet deep, all around the garden, and fill this either with a good quality of molasses or a thick liquid veneer of the consistency of carpenter's glue. The action is simple. The preda- tory hen, unable to fly the distance from edge to edge, attempts to wade across, and has its mind instantly diverted from the attractions of the garden by the action of the molasses or the veneer upon her own feathers, involving sar- torial complications which keep her oc- cupied long enough to enable you to shoo her off your premises. Economy is wealth, and the discovery of new uses for waste products has been the basis of many a large fortune. You will therefore find it very much to your advantage if on very hot days, during a prolonged drought, when water is not readily available for the irrigation of your garden, to wear a fur or plush hat while you cultivate the patch, the hat to be of the Grand Army style, without ventilation; and after perspiring freely for a half hour, to remove your hat and shake your head vigorously over the parched plants. This will save you many journeys to and from the pump with the watering can, and you will be surprised at the unfailing quality of the supply even on days when everything else appears to have dried up at the fountain head. If your neighbors have an annoying habit of using the stone wall running about your garden as a place to sit and gossip on warm summer evenings, t¢ the destruction of your own peace and quiet, an excellent remedial agency will be found in three strands of uninsulated cocktail should call for Every lover of a good shoals aS Abbott's Bitters. Makes the best. 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