Judge — May 31, 1884 — page 5: what you’re looking at

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WHAT'S THIS? Naturally this retreat of their intended victims, will cause discomfiture among the ladies; ' professional laughers, and jokers must now circulate freely in the parlor. ‘Their efforts to amuse should be met heartily with yawns, hould remain as late as tion of some unforeseen 1 salivenme ent. When weari- ness, disappointment, and vexations have added their last drops to the cup of enjoy- ment, it will be time to leay Assure your hostess that you have spent a most delight- ful evening. A Blast From the Country. A RUSTIC MAKES A PEW REMARKS ON GIRLS AND | LANG I visit New York two or three times a year for the purpose of stirring my pulse and accelerating my liver by the roar and racket of the ct ‘The mass of juirming, wriggling, and fighting insects and reptiles struggling for existence here is a repulsive subject for con- templation, and from year to year it proms worse. rational human beings should deliberat hoose to spend their days jumping on one another in the row of down town business in a boiler factory noise, and to spend their nights at the s\ ‘end of a ten story fire-escape into which they are shot by a greasy smelling catapult, is more than I can imagine, coming as I do, fresh as a bob-o-link from cowslip banks and daisy pied meadows. But any muck bed grows some sweet flow- ers and so does New York, and these same are the few thorough-bred girls that a dis- criminating eye can pick out from the mass of pudgy, ‘moon-faced, sucker-mouthed things one meets in a promenade up the avenue. _THE JUDGE. The change of styl expression and canine attendance tertaining subject of philosophic contempla- tion, ‘The present conventionalism seems to be English, and on the whole it is the best yet. It consists of atall, slender, much becorseted figure, nose in air, and elbows well trussed behind. At each step the chin goes up slightly and the eyelids slide down ditto, has set this style, and it ‘The Langtry 1) uroo,” or the iit now obsolete in the best Wi . he favorite “purp,” which a perverted ; maternal instinct craves, has changed from black -and-tan to poodle, from poodle te | from skye to Gordon setter, and lastl attendant to severe and noble virtue, a big | comicbooks.com