Judge — December 13, 1884 — page 5: what you’re looking at

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THE JUDGE. A NEW NEIGHBOR IN SHANTYTOWN. mg (4g wm No. 1. One glance at each other is enough to convince Mrs, Murphy and Mrs, Muldoon that they never can be friendly. 4. The fortunes of war seem to favor big Mrs. Muldoon. next month's rentis due, Ove of the young men is very nice looking, so I don’t’see so much objection to them, Our cook acts stran though. She has fits of being so cross and grumpy that I hardly dare ask what there is for dinner sometimes. I told Edward of this, and I said to him that I wished I could cook myself. “1 wish you could other sniff. “Why do you answer in that tone?” I 1 he replied with an- * Because, if you could cook yourself I could cat you,” he replied, and he very viciously and not ina joking or i . L wonder if he's tired of be- married already. Well, Lam, if he isn’t, and if it was my dear little pug ” T don’t know what I should di He never sniffs at me, and he at least acts sympathetic when Lam not feeling well or am unhappy: I've only been to the opera once. ‘Then Iward did not go. I went with Papa and s he’s tired of Italian opera, though knows he used to appear to be fond enough of music before we were marric When F told him how I enjoyed the eve- ning, and how charming I thought Nev he said he didn’t sce anything to admire about her. She was a mere chit of a girl. 2. In fact they commence an aggressive campaign. 5. But the fence breaking down equalizes the skirmish. “Why. she’s like? I didn’t catch his answer v a I wonder ifhe ever went to the opera without me, He's been out two nights lately, but once it was to a medical dinner, her time it was a society meetir id. They both kept him out pretty late though, bat [sat up and waited for him, like a dutiful wife. Dee. 8th— ard has decided to let the young men come, and they will be here day after to-morrow. I must try and have a good dinner ready for them, First. im- pressions are lasting, they say. I hope the cook will behave herself, but she does act so strangely, If Mabel Taylor should call after they get I wonder how I could explain their nce to her, and Mama don’t know anything et, either. I’m awfully pinched etting Christmas y and I don’t like to ask Edward for money He took all Papa gave me and never landed me back a cent. Well, I s'pose I can get things charged, the same as I used to before I married, The only ditference will be I shan’t have Papa, to foot the bills, What [can’t understand is why Edward’s practice is s¢ all. Ilis sign is in plain sight, I'm sure, I said I, “how do you know what presents re 6. Giving the two husbands a chance to drink to each other’s good luck. wonder if people in this neighborhood never get sick. He’s had some horrid looking hospital patients coming to the house, but I don’t like their appearance at all. One lady that answered our advertisement for rvoms to let, objected to being in the house with a doctor, She said she should dislike to come in contact with patients. T assured her she might live here for years and never see a patient, at which she smiled and departed. When I repeated the con- ration to Edward, he sniffed again and id such remarks wei culated to increase wonderfully. I’m sure I don’t § y. Since then these hospital people have commenced coming and they're just horrid. A sowpen reflection (reflected by one of the ancients) I’m afraid we'll have to make up our minds to discharge our daughters if we expect to keep our coachman, Ir is understood that the policy of France | (spite of her capers in Chinashop) is essential- ly conservative, and that the government has no mind to go astray in search of novelties. Probable enough. imal is likely to go | far astray if it had been once marked—still less if it has been Bismarked. — comicbooks.com