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This page collects satirical short pieces mocking contemporary social behaviors and attitudes. **"Evil Communications"** presents a morality tale: a Virginia woman tries to "civilize" a Black child servant named Angeline, teaching her religion and propriety. The satire targets the hypocrisy of such efforts—when Angeline repeats crude language learned from another servant, the woman is shocked, missing the irony that her "Christian training" hasn't actually taken root. **"Oil to Oklahoma"** jokes darkly about oil industry depression: a ruined farmer returns home announcing his land now has an oil gusher—typically good fortune, but worthless due to oversupply and price collapse. **Other brief pieces** satirize: men's fairness in weather (expecting warmth alongside fairness), lawyers' paradoxes, airplane spectators, a publicity agent's shameless character assassination, and a real estate agent's euphemisms about noisy neighbors. The page's humor assumes readers' familiarity with these social situations—wealth loss, racial stereotypes, professional dishonesty—presented as universal human folly worthy of mockery.

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