Judge — December 3, 1881 — page 11: what you’re looking at

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AN AESTHETIC WRAP. Su The remnant of a stale emetic; A lily in her band she smeled— This maiden wistful and esthetic. joked as if her system held The clouds foretold a coming storm, wember’s breeze Was nd chilly, cloak enwrapped her fragile form, Her clothing shielded! her but illy arsh fember's air was raw and wet, Bat she did not appear to mind it * Patience!” TM have it yet Patience! I shall be sure to tind it e said, * A-down Broadwas the slowly passed, As on a carefal quest she sauntercd; Bat saw a fur-store sign at last, And then picked up her dress and cantered. For her the counter long and wide Was piled with dolman, sacqu But like a As if an inward chill convulsed and ulster; autumn bree To sealskins fine as fine could be Did salesmen eagerly ec Alas!” A somethin, she said, ‘I fain would see soulful, soft and tender.” + You have,” she said between her sihs cht, appreciative soul, m: id before her eyes sstfal otter dolman, rk the sweet and He named the price For all that she was » ie paid the bill, rth it got her, She said: + Life holds some blessings still; For this, oh! th CARL uREST. INCLINED THAT WAY. fORY FOR BACHELORS, BY “BRICKTOP” DvrinG the next few days Toft MeGudgeon employed himself in fiuding out whether Clara Queen was a He had but litte trouble when he once got upon the scent in ascertaining most positively that she was; that she had *‘set her cap” for high game many a time and oft, but bein balked, she at last took to answering ‘‘mat- aud or not. rimoni: And he found out that he was not the first one that she had dawned upon in this way, but he did find out that as a last resort— rather than get no husband at all—she had fastened her hooks upon him for better or for worse. Down went heart Down also went h nd everybody But he pulled himself together suff to survive the blow and to write a letter to the designing Clara, informing her of his discov cries, and 0” his intention to call the whole af. fair off. Those were troublesome times for Toft Me- Gudgeon, for it seemed to him that everybody knew all about it, and it wasn't Tom Tripper's fault if they did not. Itwas prodigiously fun- ny—for him. Clara Queen did not deign to reply, but her lawyer did for her. Yes, it was a very tart reply, coming as it did in the shape of a notice of action about to be instituted against him for breach of promise, and before he fairly realized it he was alive defendant in the case. MeGudgcon's OUR cITIZ Cartats: with an “ig” in front of it—and he felt just as though he wished that somebody would steal | his body and hide it away from the world. But of course all sorrow has its run. It bothered him dreadfully during the first: few days, especially as he was obliged to confess to his employer and beg him to become his bail. But after he had pulled himself togeth- er, he ventured to open and investigate some of the other candidates who had answered his | matrimonial advertisement, for it will be re- membered that he put the remainder of the | letters into his trunk unopened, resolving to keep them until after his “golden” wedding with Clara Queen, when he would open and show them to her, and they could laugh over them, Things are not always what they seem, Alack! and, more or less, alas! ‘There nother; I will not breathe her me, even in type. She wrote in her letter that she had some moncy and two children, but she was yet young, and in spite of her ex- perience was still in favor of doubling up in life. With Tarquin strides McGudgeon approach- edher. No more rush or gush for him. Indeed, he was not half so much inclined that way as he was when he met Clara Queen, but still he felt it to be his duty to marry a fortune if pos- sible. And it must be borne in mind that he had a breach of promise case on hand when he set out on this conquest, so it cannot be expected that he would appear at his best. But in this candidate he found an amiable EN SOLDIERS, There, there, Corporal, on't ery: We'll soon be home. ‘or but those two He hated thing seemingly in he boys of hers, the you children. She pleased him, and he appeared to tind favor in her eyes alter she had stated her he only question was, how much money had she? iets. mis ase, Resolved at the start to do nothing in haste as he had before done, he listened to her statement regarding her worldly affairs, and then set. aman at work upon the business to verify it, She panned out finely, and report made her worth at least fifty thousand dollars in her own right. Once assured of that, he offered himself as his share in the matrimonial partnership, and was at once accepted. Things looked pros- perous, and he got right down to the business of working up a short and decisive courtship. Meantime his landlady, Mrs, Wax, had her cyeupon him, Not a move of his escaped her that she did not afterwards find out, and as hope did not die out in her heart on ace of discouragements, she continued secretly to put in her fine work. Some more alas! also some more alack ! Before a month had passed, MeGudgeon learned that all the property of this charming widow had been left to her in trust for her children, and that in the event of her marry: ing again, it was to go into the hands of an uncle of theirs, who Was to make as much as possible out of it, and hand it over to them on their becoming of ago, so that in reality she had to fall back naked upon her second husband, if one she concluded to take. he