Judge, 1912-12-21 · page 15 of 24
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This *Judge* page contains three satirical pieces mocking rural Maine life and social pretension: 1. **"All Things in Season"**: A Boston businessman visits a remote Aroostook region hotel and requests a napkin. The proprietor claims they have none—except the one borrowed for their state Legislature representative, whom they'll reclaim after his visit. The joke satirizes rural poverty and the absurdity of treating a politician as special while lacking basic hospitality amenities. It mocks both rural Maine's sparse conditions and the inflated status given to politicians. 2. **"Nonplussed"**: A host asks Mr. Parvenu to take Miss Gamwell to dinner, but Parvenu questions where they'll eat, expecting to dine at the house. The humor targets social-climbing nouveaux riches uncertain about proper etiquette and venues. 3. **"Christmas" and "Egg View Note"**: Brief humorous observations about holiday spending disparities and women's suffrage. The overarching theme mocks rural backwardness, social pretension, and political pomposity through gentle ridicule.
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All Things in Season. BOSTON business man, lives rather luxuriously when at home, decided to make a hunting trip into the Maine woods recently, and on the way to his camp stopped at a so-called ‘‘hotel’’ in a little town ‘way up in the Aroostook re- gion, where the two main crops are prohibition and potatoes. He still wore the garments of civilization and was not yet ready to begin roughing it, so he asked the table waitress for a napkin, but asked in vain, Finally he appealed to the pro- who prietor. “Ain't got any,"’ declared that gentleman. “Why, that man at the ta- ble in the corner has one!"’ ex- postulated the guest. “‘Hush!"" said the landlord. “‘He’s our representative to the Legislature here on a visit, and we borrowed that napkin for him this afternoon. You come LOVERS OF ART has adjourned, and you'll see him wiping his mouth on the tablecloth, same as the rest of us,"” Allan Font It is considered quite a feat for an armless man to play the piano with his toes. NON PLUSSED. Host—"' Mr, Parvenu, you will please take Miss Gam- well out to dinner.”” Mr, Parven If a Burglar Appears. Be careful how you handle the Santa Claus question before the chil- dren. If a heavily built, low-browed Santa Claus, with a dark lantern and a jimmy in his hands, suddenly de- scends upon your dining-room at midnight on Christmas Eve, deal gently with him, lest you wake the children and destroy their simple faith in the good old saint. Christmas. Mother buys the presents, Daughters celebrate, Johnnie has the good time, Father pays the freight. Egg View Note. Ambrose Crosslots says: “If women-suffrige agitation had been as strong when King Solomon was chasin round as it is now, he would hev had less time fur writin’ “* Certainly—but where? I thought we songs."* around here after Legislature were going to eat here in the house !"" comicbooks.com