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# Analysis of Judge Magazine Page This page contains three distinct sections: 1. **Top cartoon** ("Where did ye get the rug, Bill?"): A sketch satirizing working-class domesticity, showing two men examining a rug, with text suggesting one obtained it through questionable means at a restorer's shop. The humor targets common fraud or deception in the restoration trade. 2. **"Modern Fad"** section: A brief gossip column about someone named Willis relocating from Ohio to San Francisco, satirizing the trend of people chasing opportunities westward. 3. **"The Tempest in the Melting-Pot"** (main article): Social satire about wealthy women's competitive entertaining and social one-upsmanship—various Mrs. [surnames] giving overlapping parties for the same guests, with Mrs. Schipkowski notably excluded, causing offense. The satire mocks upper-class social hierarchies and etiquette obsessions. The illustration shows a bride and groom taking a dinner break, likely accompanying this society gossip.

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There was a complete Armistice when Mrs. George Templeton persuaded them all to attend her farewell recep: tion, just before she sailed for England. Mrs. Mike Murphy was not invited to any of the func tions. But never a bit cared she You see, she washed and cleaned for them all at $3.00 un hour and she made them all provide and vacuum cleaners, Begorra! tric washers What's the Use of Doing Things? “Little Willie is weeping cepiously . . . some great sorrow seems to have entered his young life.” | “Yes, he worked hard all spring putting up some forty | bird boxes, and then his Dad took the poor kid's air-gun away from him.” Modern Fad Willis—I thought you had a fine traveling j “Whar pip ve crr tH” ruc, Pro did you happen ‘ iveriiiipe OTe Mee doe Tbe unis wutex ligrnctko acsortts Gillis—Couldn’t stand the strain. New York turned o” MAIR REsTORER.” the clock 9 Ohio turned the months ahead and Illinois é turned the years back; so on my last trip West [arrived in » How mpany who uses both arms to goo San Francisco at 27 o'clock on the fifty-first day c © Ides t grows testy while the driver in the front seat tries to of March, 1684 t one to work in the same common cause ¢ soil in summer; the clerk who is planning a Liberal ill. The keeper of the gasolene filling station Pastor—This morning I will have for my topic the Great af bill look unpardonably deceased. Unli Flood in Genesis. nake an awful racket. Thermometers are The fel versary vers who vows his love birth of rudited « Iburrs stick sas unc Washin, anding virtue credited to the father Att The g b the men tee off and the we n tea up as is transfe The cuckoo in the canoe wou lent. Garters stick can reach a he interu nt. And the offspring who goes bare und mt rig d car of sweet corn The ated by the s any congregat accessfully tries to sneak off to bed without washing It's a great feature of the calendar, is ¢ The Tempest in the Melting-Pot By Karnertne Neciry N RS. WILLIAM LINDENBERG gave a dinner party when her sc m overseas. Only the mest intimate friends of the family were invited. ‘y Mrs. Alphonse Lestudillo was omitted. So just to show 1 them, she gave a luncheon the same week in honor of her ; guest, Miss Adele Petersen | Mrs. John Van Houden was not included in the luncheon, so | she gave a theatre party for her sister, Mrs. James MacBeth; came home fre 1 leaving out Mrs. Lestudillo i Mrs. Ar Bolgiana was overlooked i tivities, se she overlooked them all when she gave a shower for Miss Ruby Goldstein, a bride-to-be. She also neglected to ask Mrs. Schipkowski, so Mrs. Schipkowski did not invite herwhen she had her card party. The prizes were wonderful, too. Mrs. Louis La Fraysce paved the way to Peace by giving a dance for her débutante daughter, and asking everybody Draven by Ganowen O. Res Tue Batoe awo Groot Take Tote Orr rox Dinner comicbooks.com