Judge — August 26, 1882 — page 10: what you’re looking at

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THE JUDGE. “KATY-DID.” ‘Sweet and balmy was the evening, As I strolled adown the lane, With the gloaming falling ‘round me, Free from all the world profane; Masing on my fyture prospects, Half in sorrow, half in joy, Thinking of a certain Katy, Sometimes trusting sometimes coy. In my doubting I was putti Questions to my heart with Does she care at dll about m Can I hope her love to win Did she mean to show her liking When she kept those gloves of kid? ‘When a voice from out the tree-tops Whispered soft! Katy-did.” Then I asked another question Of this oracle of ev For I liked the simple answer, And was anxious to believe— Did she mean it for affection When my faults she harshly chidt As before, again was answered From the tree-tope; * Katy-did.” Did she, then, because she loved me, Cut me” during alt the ball, Theo, sweet smiling, press my-tlngers At the good-bye in the hall? And did she for that same reason her forbid I was answered —* Katy-id.” Strengthened by these words laconie, Soon I reached a cot All alone bn the piazza Sat the girl whom 1 adc ‘Then I poured forth all my passion, Soon her angel face lay hid On my shoukler. Did she answer ‘That sbe loved met “+ Katy-<did.” unas rungRE, door; Seen Through Synagoggles, Ove Biock, Lexington Aveaue, 1882. Dear Levi: Why do you always claim that the Jews are the best people in the world, and then, when a Jew is accused of doing an. thing wrong, wildly proclaim that a man ought not to be singled out for his race or re ligion? You are willing to read about Patsey O'Brien, an Irishman, or John Washi an American, committing a crime, but if Moses Isaacs is spoken of in the new as a Jew, you fly into a passion, and no reference should be 1 the other night, in a be were doing all the talking, and Patsey O'Brien was doing all the paying, you eleven times got off that stale rubbish about the great Di racli being a Jew—as well as Gambetta, C telar, and others. How you laugh, Levi, when the cartoons depict Protestant Talmage with a saddle rock mouth! How you laugh, Levi, when they display an American with big ears, an Englishman with a rotund stom- ach, a Frenchman with a devil’s tail, a Span- iard with a ponderous jaw, or an Irishman with a big upper lip! But’ you say it is a shame to pick oat any particular race when Mr. Moses Isaacs Levi is portrayed with a Jumbo nose. Our dear Disraeli had a long, thin nose, much sneezed into leanness by his habit of taking ‘snuff. He also wore a red vest, and a heavy,-vulgar, gold chain. He was not so awfully great, only smart and suc- r hall, where you on, | Yet | T cessful on the winning side. A race which, like ours, has overrun the whole world, would be degraded, indeed, if it did not have an oc- | casioual man of prominence. But, Levi, we | are too ready to think that there are no other men. If Jews are . fine, learned, why be ashamed to beaJew? You are not? | ‘Then why say that the Herald, in its police reports, should never jadd Jew to a culprit's name? Americans acknowledge that Benedict Arnold was-an American, But you, Levi, get iad at the ntion of a jews-harp. Why? It is | only a corruption of the word “jaws-harp,” | showing how it was intended to be played. Ah, Levi, the one trouble is that we are not xons and Tenton., nor wit so gre: imes, or Sur, or | | ‘¢ not Europeans, nor Americans. arria have introduced no cool, Nerthern blood into our veins, Like the | Asiatic chickens, the Brahmas and Cochins, we are overgrown, prolific, gross eaters, un- idy in our nests; but we have none of the | style of the Spanish, none of the fineness of | the French, Hamburg, Dorking, or game chickens, Levi, we have some good fellows. How glad a Christian is to say, ‘‘He's a white Jew "—meaning that he is an elegant man in his essential character. We are not modest enough. We were kept down so long that as soon as we got out of the trap we bounded twice too high, and turned a ridicu- lous double somersault in the air, while Ger- mans and English laughed. Let us not try to force too much of our Asiatic manner upon | thing.” cool, humorous, critical people, who cannot be forced to love what they do not like—least of all, ostentation, loudness, and selfishne: Do not try to be too far ahead. We cannot lead an Emerson or a Longfellow, and as for our fighting qualities, if God won all our bat- tles for us, of what use were the Jews at all? Besides, without the aid of Heaven, our boasted Joshua, in front of Phil Sheridan, would have been knocked out in three rounds, Yours, dear Levi, SOLOMON. “Ty the country,” says a boarding-house victim, ‘I find nothing at all but insects, on the leg or on the wing, but insects on every- ‘This accounts for the moths-covered bucket. Epitaru for a clown: Here we are again. Ir is supposed that Adam set the earliest winter fashion, since the only coat he wore was a bare skin. A FRIEND wishes to know what is the-origin of taw-line. We believe it arose from the game of taw or marbles. -Other accounts say it was a line drawn over chalk accounts on tavern shutters when they were paid. Ifthis is not correct, then it is all chalk-taw to us. Tue publishers ought to make good hay out of ‘Leaves of Grass" while the sun of adver- tising lasts. comicbooks.com