Judge — October 16, 1886 — page 3: what you’re looking at

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*mud. > 3 wise,” “it is really nothing but smoke in my eyes. “Many crit says Mrs. Wheeler Wileox, ** declare that that is immoral, but I cannot see anything wrong about it.” We should think not. It is so strange that critics should get such odd ideas. Nothing could be very much more c i than a little grisette- many male poets have written | about her; and everybody knows that shoulders bare are merely | shoulders fair. But a husband entitled to re- spect who smokes a cigarett ately Wileox—is that quite rea- le? And then as to the | stately Maud and Tenor McKee. Can you not sce the structural incompleteness of the poem ? It is well to have poems of passion, but is it wise to omit the sauce for the goose in order to more than supply that for the gentle- “ Why should we work while we have our health and strength?" manly and dreamy gander? SOME AGRICULTURAL SUGGESTION. Mr. Jaehne is a thoroughly reliable man You will know just where to find him fora number of years to come. And it is good to know about these persons. You want to un- hear good music, but to gratify their curios is not complimentary. Granted that the pri lege of staring a pretty woman who notorious for something is not intensely disa- greeable; still the woman greatest of rivers, and that it has come up from | its slime to be the river and make the river go. Schwatka never discovered such a river as that. Schwatka is a nice man, and he wouldn't should know how to| find such a river if he could. It may be sus- act, regardless of the variety of her matrimo- | pected that Cleveland has regretted his discov- | derstand where they are at night, and what the nial experiences, the extent of her personal |ery ; if he hasn't he will. In due season, in-| apg doing in the jocund morning, the = foliowing, the amount of her real or simulated | deed, the robust discoverer will sicken of his yoon and the mysterious twilight. sickness, the value or the loss of her jewelry, | enterprise, and there will come from him the) But we have not reliable men enough. We or the number of vocal and gunpowdery ex-| melancholy words— | must educate certain representative individuals plosions attend her journeying from “Way up upon de Mugwump riber, to the point of reliability. They do not get it place to plac bolita . by the natural process. of growth, which ‘is There area good many very poor actresses Se rather in certain cases merely a matter of re- who play to full houses, while as large a number | Dese’s shay ce Mieka Sey trogression. If they grow they grow at the of worthy ones ejaculate to empty benches. toes rather than in the vicinity of the scalp. The fact would seem to indicate that the pub- They need irrigation, investigation, the prun- A PASSION POEM. * lic deserves all the bad opinion the trumpet: blowers and scandal-mongers have formed of it; but when the inevitable disgust comes the | Mrs. E. Wheeler Wilcox tells in a poem of a |man smoking a cigarette while his wife, the stately Maud, is singing, with Tenor McKee, a ing-knife, the subsoil process—all of which, re- |duced to the immediate comprehension, means the restriction of their liberty and the training tide of popular favor will run precisely the quet, Asthe singing goes on the husband calls| that is done by the agriculturists at Sing Sing, re deserves the patron- ig his mind a little grisette with blue-black |at Auburn and at Dannemora. age of the best people; but if it is ratheradime hair, and he incidentally remarks to himself} We are not certain that Governor Hill museum than a theatre it will get only that of that he used to kiss her throat and her shoulders |preached this in his recent agricultural ad- the worst. The worst enemy the theatre has pare. Between the bars of the music it fre-|dresses. If he didn’t he was guilty of a grave today is the theatre itself. We need not nec-/ quently occurs to him that he ought to forget| oversight. He should have remembered Jacob * the legitimate in acting; We/the little grisette. "He says it to himself a great |Sharpe and his agricultural shortcomings. He rit in advertising. [many times, but keeps on thinking of her just|should have reflected upon our indicted alder- Presently the duet is ended and the|men and their rank and irregular vegetable aud leans over the back of hischair—|grossness. He might with profit have added s been smoking the cigarette about an|much as to the aqueduct experiment, which We look upon Cleve ur, judging from the length of the poem, and | has apparently been covered over for the win- Schwatka. Long previous to his second visit | this i inly small luxury for so long a pe- ter in deference to other agricultural pursuits, to the Adirondacks he discovered a river that | riod—and, finding that hiseyesare wet, inquires) There are a good many men who lack the is larger in its contemptible pretension and about it. Oh!” he to her, husband-| virtue of agricultural and other reliability. smaller in its accomplished results than any Are we mistaken in the supposition that Far- other st shallow, but its bed —~—|mer Martine is a pretty good agriculturist him- broad, self ? The mi growler does the most to empty it. ‘A BAD MEMORY, DISCOVERER CLEVELAND'S MUGWUMP RIVER. Occasionally sa freshet, and at those times it takes up from slimy bottom all the deposit of the previous months of drouth, all the green scum that has accumu- lated fly and filth and malaria, all the malice and revenge that are thus appropriately typi- fied, and carries them to the Democratic sea beyond. They are not healthy. They add small volume to the mass of water with which they mingle. They are not thankfully re- who does the least to fill the ‘To have bad memory ix rightly thought Unfortunate. “Twas this infirmity that lately brought Brown to his fate At the right time he never could recall Fr nid well-stored One day he took a sail and chanced to fall Ri How necessary t overboard, ory was to him oo late be found: For he forgot that he knew how to swim, biding place. But every pound nd particle of filth and scum and worthlessness goes sailing off with an apparent. consciousness that it is the river, that it is the | And so was drowned. A pair of braces.” Qb4I