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This page contains two distinct elements: a humorous diary entry and an advertisement. **The Diary Entry** satirizes a married couple whose relationship is defined by petty contradictions. The husband resents their worn stove so much he'd rather stay indoors bickering ("It didn't, either!") than tour the husband's various rural accomplishments and curiosities. The wife similarly prefers complaining about his fashion choices to admiring her needlework. The satire mocks domestic discord and spouses who weaponize disagreement over genuine connection. The second anecdote about fishing with "Hyacinth" (a Black companion) uses lowbrow humor involving a mud turtle and crude racial language typical of early-20th-century publications. **The Advertisement** promotes Karo corn syrup for home preserving, featuring a canning table and a "Connecticut Kitchen" illustration. This represents the magazine's commercial content mixed with editorial material—standard for Judge during this period. The page reflects contemporary attitudes while satirizing middle-class marriage dynamics.

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From a Sinner’s Diary 0-DAY we had company—one of those T married couples who always feel it adaty to contradict everything the other says. They didn’t get right at it and quarrel, but you could see they'd rather than to hear us play or sing or talk or get dinner. It appears the man was mad at “ the woman because their stove had worn I | == ie out, and he preferred, scads more, to stay HY fad in the house, where he could say to her, SY ELLA “ft didn’t, either!’’ than to have pa take | ae him out and show him his new cement stable or his blind orphan pig and his twelve other little pigs and all the rest of his pigs, or the web of elder roots that grew in a tile so thick they looked like a sponge, filling it so completely he had to unditch four rods to get his drain running again; or the screech owl that died and dried in the little apple tree, or his beaver teeth or his glass deer eyes and bis wild turkey call; or to sight down pa’s new gun barrel, inside and out; or to be shown what a looking straw stack we had and how much straw had to be carried out by hand before the cow-stable door could be got into, or to even be told who stacked it. And the woman wanted him where he could hear her say, ‘‘He blacked his boots all day, then wouldn’t wear acollar!’’ more than she wanted to bave ma show her her crazy quilt and be ‘ told where she got every piece in it, or Connecticut! be taught the new stitch ma got off old Haight's pants. ‘pascal Twice now, Hyacinth, my black chum, / \ and I have fished all day in Grand River ‘ eae and caught nothing worth printing, Sore Rretacts Pemess Klicken Sersre—Copyrtat, 1864, by C2 Co. hardly. When we left, we tied our black sock that we carry frogs in onto a stick Good Home Preserves we'd anchored a throw line to. and left it sthalf mast. I caught a mud turtle and pat him in my bait basket and fastened and How to Make Them the cover down. He pawed around, mak- ing such ghostly noises I thought I'd set (Crystal White), used in the proper pro- the basket down by her and let her think itwas haunted. I did, and cracked nig- i ii 1 fer toes for her, and brought the tea can, aro portions with sugar, makes a rich, heavy td baited her hook, most killing myself oR preserving syrup, free from the cloying trying to be nice, waiting for the turtle 5 toget in his work; but he was perfectly sweetness of syrup made with sugar alone. oe ene, eh ier tenia fis i It blends with the fruit juices, bringing out to perfection the full flavor tare her when I wasn’t there to see. I of the fruit. It not only makes preserves more pleasing in flavor and con- ox back ad get din sew. ae nig- sistency but makes satisfactory results more certain, ger toes, peaches and candy had given le ‘ : 4 : aL, Thote was only obo Ble apple’ty the his table for canning the late summer fruits will be found helpful: dinner bucket, and I wanted that—just tere he began to burrow and make the CANNING TABLE basket dance! Her jaw and countenance | | water |, Time of dropped, her eyes stuck out till I felt it Y | ____|Bailing. Min. was good to be there! This mud turtle 1 pt. 10 to 15 tad a section of his shell, big as a fifty- re, | ¢ Lig 8 cent piece, scaling off. It looked like Qhinces i 3 its. 20 to 30 isinglass. We picked it and told herman ——_ ‘We most land ti » but 5 : . . tort landed a. monstrous carp, but be The Karo Preserving Book is a practical guide got fast in the bushes and dropped back, . 5 seraping this scale off. I wish we could to putting up good home made preserves. It gives full, catch a bass big as he isas easy! ‘By easily followed directions and other information about foll,”” he said, ‘‘I’d know that was a carp preserving useful to the housewife. sale wherever I’d see it! They always - look like a thumb nail with aring around.”” You may have a copy free. Write your name We carved 1801 on the turtle’s back. If and address on a postcard, you read where such a one has been Canght, you'll know. ire. CORN PRODUCTS REFINING COMPANY Dept. U New York P. O. Box 161 bas made it famous.” Fix giags stoppered bottles. [apve.) comicbooks.com