Judge — April 12, 1884 — page 4: what you’re looking at

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ra erreeeres er = eee ee amen see = ntence that t convey an idea and from his actions everything that might, however faintly, sug- y : and then, fought the dd fight of life, fathers in thi ss of having Auty and fulfilled his m re of no race or period. wabout them but the ony of fashion, As Beau Brum- adudine leader. ; so is the dude in York. except tha ins that Sylla 1 have been boiled out of the contempo- his conversation every Jvpce has in his mind one notable specimen, He has watched him grow from carliest childhood up to his present altitudi- nous position of full blown dudism. — His history is instructive and typical. Let us wlhim Chawley. We wouldn't for the world, or cause him sthers sce him; for, like all true dudes, Chawley does not know his own excellence. LHe would be mildly astonished, and perhaps pained if you were abruptly to tell him he were a dude. He would ike this, (for the advanta veable to the dude's condition, ly, that you can alw dicate what reply he will > to a given remark, with as much accu if he were machine). Cblawley, then, would me is not Chawle: ow, you know that abit of it, my di There's Gawge, now. Ile’s ‘a dude if you like, but me, Oh com ” from which somewhat involved sentence would nat- urally gather that F cd the r thus thru: i you some Oh, no. h to coin a false. consequently is phenomenally Simply, he has been a dude all nd docs hot know it. When Tite t made his acquaintance Chawley very pretty little two y mentally, he has never developed since This is his portrait at the tender two. That boy was a dude from his cradle. thing made him so unhappy as an un- fashionable frock. ‘There style in the ray he put on his cock-tailed petticoats which I beholders. His first intel- ntence was to call forhiscane. His grandpa’s. slippe rs, which were dear to the old_gentle- n’s heart—positively made him ill. He liked eau de cologne, but has been known to faint at the smell of musk, a weakness which hus never forsaken him since. As he grew older he played with dolls like a little girl; hered to his | n old pair of carpet. | THE JUDGE. to their habiliments, and were always dressed in the extreme of the prevai had a picture book made up of clippi from tailor’s fashion p And he shared | the belief of his mother, that he was the | most wonderful boy who had ever been sent to adiate with pnius ther dulland prosaic After a time they sent him to school. What the school life of ad may be problem for wiser heads than ours. should fancy his pathway cannot be all roses; but perhaps the Providence that tempers the wind to the shorn lamb, blun boyish ridi when direct helpless, ha sdude. Cl to school in a suit of the most’ Leautiful workmanship, and, seem unhay The in of swelldom were even t bursting into life in his dude life was all before him, a some- ike the blind motio! of the spring that show the year is turned He felt a keen pleasure in the fact that his cap became him better than the caps of his schoolfellows became them, His trousers » of never-failing wonderment Ilis_ very handkerchiefs ex- wning rapture of this period read. How this mirack was accomplished Tit J UpGE docs not know Poor Chawley must have been caught d alucid interval. His educati gress any further. Henever the joys of his school fellow the bliss of the moment when the te hovered, about to sit, above the crooked a insidious pin. ball delighted not nor candy either. He | sole and si desire to acquire new clothes and mor » whole, did not and de them. i we remarked above, he scems to have managed to acquire some rudiments of education. We are apt to contemplate the educational advancement of a dade with the same kind of never-fa wonder with which we remark on the performance.of a learned pi ir, or the tricks of a lot of trained horses at the circus. But there is no doubt but that Chawley’s education tran- scended these. He is now a full blown and very perfect dude, yet he can read, or appears to read, the only his dolls were always masculine dolls as | paper at his club, and can make an undu- | lating line at the foot of a check which is gnature by the payi uit sa) F Imost all drawn in favor of his tailor, and certainly that artist deserves all he gets, for -Chawley, as turned out by him, is a miracle of art. We will not pause to and contemporancons « known, and Chawley is Chawley alw wal be one. When he yellow leaf, his trousers w cribe the current Ile is too well | of his class, : he will continue to support his tot- footsteps with a ca pattern, His locks will n J and thin, for perraquic venal, and Chawley is rich. green old Cot a little m train on_his me ight. If he 1 faculties mu y u dinner, hed not order it himself. gives carte blanche to Delmonico. He buys his horses in the y, and, as he is timid about horse- esh, he only keeps them to look at. He anges his dress tifteen timesa day, however, so his time is fully occupied, and there is no danger of his dying of ennui, And he comicbooks.com