Judge — April 2, 1887 — page 9: what you’re looking at

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THE MULTIPLEX MAIDEN. (OF SMITH COLLEGE. Upon a pictured, glowing page T meta pensive, cultured face, Struck off at girlhood’s golden age— A pretty puzzle, full of grace. A sweet spell lit her liquid eyes, Calm and unpassionate as the sphinx; I like a girl who's sweet and wise, And here's a lovely face that thinks. ® Gazing intent, the wonder grew ; S Wrought by the sorceries of art, Deep ravishment, before I knew, Swept like acyclone through my heart. | Not Cleopatra's royal dower, Helen, or proud § Or Dido, with her n er, Could match a modern girl like this ! Soon into rapturous dreams I fell, But when I turned to read the text— Great Jupiter ! a miracle Uprose to make a stint perplexed. O sweet conglomerate (so to speak) Of pretty girls poured into one! O complex creature, lovely freak, My soul by science is undone. I thought T stood before a gate Thrown open to an earthly heaven, Only, provoked, to tind m: A sevenfold multiple of seven Alas! what would it, must it be If one could capture wholesale charms ; Yet if a girl should love, ‘tis she Who wields a hundred circling arms! Still sits serene the portrait rare, Dispensing havoc through iv O maid—or maids—say, was it To work with such deep-loaded art? Since, tossed and torn, we rise from one Sweet pair of eyes to heights divine, Why multiply, from wit or fun, Your torture so, dear Fort: JOEL BENTON. ACEMAN—* What did that old feller want?” = ——— CurRK— *r matches AD INFINITUM. POLICEMAN: y didn’t yer'gin ‘m to him?” : Y’ see, I've hed him in this ‘ere coal-bin sence pardnership papers, He's got ter sign, ‘r I'll ‘A WOMAN'S ARGUMENT, prisoner hacked him to pieces,” cross- W9esman the equal of nan examined the lawyer. ‘Now, while Miss SEGaREIGa Why +, | this was taking place how did you | inferior to her in every respec sama instead esha wacere “How can you prove it?” asked an | 9; 7 ace Biase” was the trem: | interested old bachelor. ef A “Why, by his stockings,” was the SECOND TO NONE laughing reply; ‘he wears only half — hose.” ce,” remarked ral a man who was visiting country, NO FAVORS ALLOWED. “that your aristocracy don't have any Congressman (in sleeping -car) — | divorce cases that ean compare with “ Porter, will you bring me a glass of n the old country. water?” | Y T guess Porter —“’Gainst interstate com. | the only time we can get ahead of you meres ralea sab: | in that when one of our — | winisters NO WONDER. atisfied with “You say the murdered man was | anything the farmer can spare, but leaning against the fence when the | he prefers & spare rib. . COVETED REST. I wish I could find some hole in the ground “Itam my opinion, Braver White, dat de world ain't a flyin’! That man never saw and beast never found, “round in de air ike a pin-wheel, but sets solid on a rock.” Where no living creature e'er breathed of the air, ~ Ye—yes, dominie, dat may be, but what does dat rock set on?” Another poakt in coniaae I would rest my old bones just twenty yearsthere ; » Well, an” ohat doee dat one at oo And when I awoke from this sleep of the soul ~ Bruver White, doan’t as’ sich jackassical queshuns. Dey is I would not go away without taking the hole. rocks all de way down, fo’ shuah,” J. MURRAY iecbooks.com