Judge — June 30, 1883 — page 4: what you’re looking at

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OUR WATER SUPPLY. AXACRRON and M 2 sung of whut Simonides and Byron chanted love; The former couple held the cup divine Venus, to bless th ied above | I scarcely like to ve to detine 6 other poets throve— But not the ¢ bards have br hit her, Have left us one poor line on Cro Das TS UT TN PERL os Po a LSS BASE Bosomed in bills the lucid liquid Ties | ¢ trackless mou its pipes It washes sleep from out the housewife’s eyes, And helps te blend her goodman’s morning draught 2 => The various needs of water it supplies Here, where ris so rarely quatfed Ti serves te put out fires and wash the face— Water is very-useful—in its place Granted the waters of the Croton Lake Are anything but mirrorlike or clear, | And f nee his throat must slake With eyelo aes by stall deer, ne can make appear, LOVE'S LABOR LOST, ‘The hydrogen 1 ere Oi6Fi1 old Faemer dloneay-as he braced up lid gute’ At they are water—when they're not in air Vil fix this here thing so by sparkin’ ‘twon't break.” And although he hammered and worked like a nailer, His twelve girls and their lovers proved too much of a strainer. I've heard of stoies of a certain elass— The Bowery dives are their Who hold that water only INTERCEPTED LETTERS. zan I could a month ago, for ze French von | Gmnting lt may le wefal in the sew = spikes in New York ces tout a fait different | “\y! PEMAgE Is TAS AIST from ze French von spikes in Paris, Zen it). UCC. MMM A h “vill | honor by taking un petit. * Mecesaty and a white . souper wiz him?"—and then it cez to Del- My pear Evise—It ees a long time that E monico's, which is pas mal, | assure you, and | phe difticulty, nut-st haf not written to you—mais que voulez Yous? | jn some things reminds me of ze Cafe Ang- Tam so busy that [haf not time to write to. Jai, only 1 go to. Delme my old friend as Leould wish; but, cherie, you will forgif me L know, and I will tell you all Lean about Amerique York—zat is vere I live and dance is very big and very tr thes os ze Paris of Amerique, but it ces not I jas de tout. 1 zee, zey haf only om dle Broad- FROMOMLLE. ADELE PIROCETTE To MILLE. BLISE corner rw Yous, JUNE, 1883, 1 would some friends (who shall be nameless) knew it al, is just this ; ‘Thompson & Co. assert the price is cheap; ico’s much oftener | The city naturally thinks it is, than we used to go | ann fered : i fered, just a trifle steep; tis in ze old days—ah, la belle | pye od aae Amerique is a great country And this poor city cannot do wi she is clever enou, So what do we intend her dude and use him properly ven she haf ) him « + she can haf flowers and sup- The aquedueters plainly move the springs way—and it ees not a bou and there pers, and drives in ze Bois—I mean ze Par Or manage them—that's pretty much the same— «Park, which zey call ze Central, be- ah! and. ev itee iglieriocainnior Raul all weeore of n cause it ees avay up atone end of ze city— Ah, Elise, it ees von grand countrie Beneath the but it ces nota Bois de Bou But in” Just now it eez hot, and © goes to Amer zatallze money ze sea. Poor people! zey have ho. Trouville dollar is fife here, but zey go to a little sandy island vich ewhy Tam js all grownup with monstrous great hotels, Engleesh and which is crowded from morn till 1 ne accustomed to which zey cull l'Isle de Coney. [haf L recollect » jous poet preaches all ze manners customs of ze country. [invite but Eknow not; eef 1 do go ‘That bie " they take their flight know a dude when I see von, and can spik wiz one dude, what would become of all ze A halo glimmers no 1 our leeches, glish so he understand me, or, vich is T went wiz zem all, would zey Our pretty Cre appear more bri very far more difficile, [ca stand him ne to fight? It eez a position tres dif And o'er the var cealek lives reels ven he spik me in French, » dudes ar nd Ciuat be vecry carafuls for ccf! ‘Na oece Hedin Toned. a wondlsous Tickk creatures tres curieust lif by two dudes should fight—oh, mon Dieu—I Ay, was that bill that Cleveland his door of ze theatre, and dress—oh, tres mag- | shudder at ze thought, for zey are sow nifique!—in coats like a cocher. But ze and delicate zat I much fear me zey would dude himself is more like cochon, and zey both break in two : Still, there rporate dicates and rings identity that we ean blame. s plain: since Cleveland show'd no quarter or our water, ume wrote on, The death-warrant of all the bugs of Croton? much for deep consideration smoke cigarettes; but zey are not at But I forget I hafa rehearsal in haf an hour. Ere we regret the bill that has gone through— hutt, orevenchic, Zey are m Ma foi, I hates rehe: to stand of one We must have water for the jug and b look—vat you call him ven one has_ ne foot and twirl for no one—not even one man And some to mix t ivie cocktails, t to admire you doing it, except ze old ballet- The streets a hirsty for their rat master, and he forget to admire—he find And sprinkline are waxing faint an smile not, zese fault. Suny for me to all kind friends zat 1 This isa seri + Sith whieh to trifle dear dudes, y send me flowers—oh, am well and growing—oh, bien richo—and [The end of it will be, we all shall stitle jen raffole—anyone can make lofe to me wiz shall be back. in n wiz plenty of flowers—it € true tongue of lofe. American dollars. My salary ces twelvedol- The city, in its thirst, micht take a drink, n, apres, ven ze ballet is done and I come la week—zat oizante francs, which ees As individuals or collectively; forth, Lam like a little queen—I tell it you, i mal—and Tam saving money, about Or, under pressure, it might pause to think, Elise—and zey are li lot of obedient ty dollars each week—merci aux messicurs: And weigh the knotty point reflectively— jects. It ees, “bon jour, mamzell les dudes—for of course diamonds areas ood Or dam the aqueduct from brink to brink and ‘bon soir, mamzelle,” there—at least [as money—and recollect zat ze dollar Amer- Clevel Hot. Thompson, all, respectively. haf learned ze) iv not zat you cau eez tive times ze franc Francais. And if th fathers are not calm, could so understand ie, uny more Toute a toi, They'll use an “tn” to finish up their dam. are ag PAARL ETAL” 210 Fea. ER ES 2 Fink La EERE PET. 5 comicbooks.com