Judge — November 7, 1885 — page 5: what you’re looking at

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THE JUDGE. | | = | REMARKS BY LILIAN. \| = Two weeks ago we produced quite a suc | back parlor, and ever since we have been simply insane on the sub- and the ject. L say “successful;” it was for everybody but me, and As I would have been as shiny a light as any of them, if they || given me anything of a part. strikin As it was, I had only one chance to distinguish myself, and that Miss Van Dyke ruined. || She was to sink languidly in an arm-chair in the centre of the stage und I was to lean | grucefully over the back. 1 || had practiced that for weeks | so as to show off my train, and even Jack admitted that I “had it down fine; ” su you | can imagine how provoked. I was when she forgot all about the arm-chair and sat down on a sofa close tothe wall, and I had to climb over an ottoman and squeeze in back of her; of course, my train was ufterly lost, and T was so confused T forgot my lines and had to be prompted; but no one ever does think of me! It was just like Regina to | book that idiot of a Lambson | to play with me. I fold her he didn’t know enough to go in when it rained, but nothing || would do, he must take the part ‘There is balm in Gilead, 4, however, and it was some con- inity to rehi ssful little play in the | was so frightened that h udience was conculsed. aid before, ever since our dramatic venture we been daft on the subject, and go round the how titudes every chance we Jack and [are wildly enthusiastic and never lose on sped on -lovely day, ian’t it?” e all and spoutin in opportu. rse; the other afternoon I was practising faint- ing in the dining room when [heard Jack open the front door and walk im the lor. Tt was a chance not to be neg- lected, so I only waited | enou to b the red tabl cloth and drape it round me, snatched up the carving knife and rushed after him. [swept into that parlor i ado, it was as ebus (Mamma twill to save the furni- IT could see was bat I dashed upto with all the dra- T could command: ‘Relentless tyrant, T defy vu I flattered myself that To had made a hit, for he started and dropped the book he wv hold Anxious to follow up my advantage, 1 flourished =m arving- knife and eried in my fiercest tones: T, if you value your ture) ane his ou him an matic life! ” solution to me that he came near ruining the whole thing. We were | To my utter astonishment, he turned and fled, and it was to be *talhi standing bya table in one of the society scenes, suppo: in dumb-show ” the book said; Jack and Regina were doing the tr down by the foot-lights, Lambson was staring vaguely at sp: nd | when T found a 1 was just going to make conversation when that officious Jack hed | and fairly she. to put in dis oar and say ina very audible aside: Don’t stand | gasped: “Oh, I there like two bumps on a log; ‘talk! be natural!” Tam sure 1 | new minis | can’t be natural to order, and as for that imbecile of a Lambson he This isa broth gf not till the fr | that it was not J ch From the Reminiscences of a Singer. | | | SHE DIDN'T HAVE TIME. | She si A famons singer is preps tion in Harper's Magazine in the twilight as closes the a, series of arti- He lies in the bummmock and squeezes her hand; |} -Naughe ts heart but a cricket that’s chirping away lat FelALiog to tier pol onal ear | And the plaint of a whip-poor-will far down the following is Violated in mu eau At Boston we had a delightful ime, I | sent Nicky out to buy some peanuts and a gingercake horse. He Tso long that I sent a policeman after whe found him + VIL set you a task to weave me a rhyme, fava Me sndvaal at night Nic! | And L of your fancy the subject must be. woke up witha loud ecrcam and. insist that he was tortured with a tape-worm in his stomach. He said that the animal's head was almost in his throat. I seized the tongs, forced them down his throat, grasped something tough and began to pull. As soon as it came in sight I found tha at it was hen followed, the cricket dropped dead, | macaroni. I continued to pull the stuff whip-poor-will, he took a climb. out until Thad gotten up an unbroken sec- her band tighter and languidly | tion of macaroni forty-three yards long. No | wonder the poor fellow fell asleep in’ the “Th y you're a poet and clever at times,” She ¢ kod, as she looked up at he = rem. averse of y for my reas ruddy and chee As the pink blush of eveon ¢ * So weave me bt golden hair, Ilue eyes; s just as fair ummer skies.” | And tune my | Say my lips But he “ Don't bother, I haven't got time.” pived letters regularly from the my French h 1;" and Nicky heard regulurly from his wife and children in Italy. At one. tim had planned a Still smoothing her hands as the minutes passed by, | Marqui He has told of his He knows she is willing, is devotion, his trust, can tell by her si we As humbly he kneels on his “knows” in the dust. | grand consolidation scheme. It was to buy big hous nd for the Marquis and for Would she love him? he plead, and be his own icky’s other wife and her litter of children bride, | and all live under the same roof in a state of As he gazed on those dear eyes sublime, | promiscnous and heterogencous con a rit But with a soft sigh she coyly replied, tion. I first ky, and he endorsed the scheme with rapturous enthu- “I'm engaged, sir, and haven't got time.” == : siasm. Various things have caused us to c.r.. | continually postpone the execution of this | from Cholley. only t king? Vn answer to my you yank the bun! You've just ring for publica. | r banged to after him that I realized tall! Oh miserable me! Picture my horror her in the hall, rolling on the floor pnized inquiries, be ulted our Yinpathy. | brilliant and’ masterly idea; but it is not j wholly abandoned, * Nicky used to have an ambition to drop the role of tenor and become a ba: In order to change his voice he use to dict him- self on ball-Cege, hoping thereby to acquire the vocal pecuharities of those animals. mmetimes he would wake up in the night and imitate the wood-notes of an angry bull with such vehemence that it would scare the people on the street. In this way he hoped to devel splendid bass voice. It is proper to state, however, that he never pro- sressed beyond the raw material of a good TI have found that, as a singer, ky is chiefly servicable in selling * books of the opera” ‘and in sweeping bran off the stage after a clog danc M. Dairy Proceeds. “That was a good thing old S off on his nephew, Cholley, boys at the clu, “What? When?” said the choral circle. “Why, when Cholley was up at his uncle’s place, hist month, he tried to milk, and the eld man ‘holley came out badly bull- Loz mmons got id one of the acow couldn't bull doze, ued some way. What's the +O, come off! You've mi print, “Oh, no—yes! W-what he said was— ha, ha! that the boy came out of the stable thoronghly cowed, *Thav'll do bet for one all Guess that is good around from you; and another comicbooks.com