Judge — November 19, 1887 — page 7: what you’re looking at

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od nin ier, L est ler, est A LETTER From the mother of the college girl who complained because the dining service was not of silver such as she had been accustomed to at home. This doc- ument is authentic, having been found by the room- mate of the discontented one after she had departed for her palatial abode at Smith’s Basin, N. J. EaR SaLLy—I suppose you will be Mad with me for calling you by the Old fashioned name but Sully you was crissened and ireene is like a Stranger to me. your letters is alway welcom that you must know and We do the best we ken, but Sally to be alway finding falte it is Disheartnin to Say the leest your Father and I has Wanted you to Have this edgecation the Wirst way, and has scraped and Scrimped lord only knows How to get the Prize of the tooishin and close beside And I need not speak of my perple Silk made over and the Plad as Well for they fitted you good and. has left me nothing but the old alapacka that was thredbare.When Si was Borne but I don’t Speak in any Reffereuce except to remind you, and of the Red table cover from the Parler Sent to you (and the melia shaw] is the Cover now) also the Lace curtins off the Wind to make your Roome look nice and the Bare- a Shame so we don't Ask annybody in there annymore s Boe and her Sets on the front stoop Mostly. I think He will ask her soone it ben goin on long enough goodness knows. charley White married the stebbins girl and have His wiskers shaved he look sodifrent your Father is Drudgin’ in the store More so than uzual not that trade is Anny too isk, but George have left him inthe Lurch. Mis Hawkins y come for a wile, but wayd things too Heavy and only one eye Besides. this is wash Day Anty perry is helpin with the wash for the dress I made her, But I wood rather have ittle Helps. is over the Meezles, thank providense, and the docto.s Bi 1 be comin in Mis Sillick have got to goin With the martins and enuff Airs about it, But they are sure to drop her by and by Studdy hard, Do, dear Sully, and try to get along economickle your father was Dancing at the Bill for stashunary keep to the things as are strickly necessary for it is the incidentle* ‘as naws out the Vitals and takes all the Spair change we can scrape I know deer Sally you don’t have All the things you want no more do I if I sed I hadn't auny of em I'd be nearder the trooth But as long as we have Helth and a good conshens theres nothing enny better then that Nor equill to it Now I must draw to a cloze there's people moved in Davises old Place and One of Marthy Day's twins is died of croop eph Smith is goin after lowries Girl you Wont care now. He never Asks for you enny more and she have his Picture round her Neck. Benny broke granma’s lookinglass yesterday and Father thinks of sellin the Heffer so No more at present from your loving Mother and Father CynTHy MILLER. me out 6 after all, and the big Cuff got hurt by lowries cross cow, but the nd all sends their Love. BOOKS THAT HAVE HELPED ME. (Written in response toa popular demand for this sort of article.) Webster's Unabridged.—Every word I wnite { steal out of it. When I want to appear learned I crib one of the foreign quotations in the back of the book. Jack Harkaway.—It has given me the only knowledge of school-life that I possess. My youthful days were spent upon a cellar door. She.—It has given the dormant lying impulse within me most wonderful impetus, until now I am as clear as Eli Perkins, Tom Ochiltree, or a circulation-swearer. Jim Bullet ; or, The Terrible Terror of the Third Ward.—To this book I owe my vast imaginative faculty; also my puyilistic accomplishments. Also my knowledge of exchange, for when I got through with it I swapped it for ** Bill Dagget; or, The Bully Bully of Butcher's Bend.” Invoice Book.—This book has generally helped me to jail. It is pasted full of bills and social Midgeley—""I_ had invitations to pay, but there is occasion to lunch yes: nothing fascinating in their terday at a popularcafe, contemplation. and wishing to size up the vaiter’s honor I lett Bob Ingereoll'e Works.—To a silver dollar on the these volumes T owe my admi- tableand stepped behind "tion of the Christian religion, a screen. When the #4 my knowledge of burlesque. ; man came back withmy Progress and Poverty, by | soup he glanced at the dollar with a George. 1 owe my ignorance of blase air, left at lying where it was political economy to this work. } and "— What Adam Smith and Herbert Schnaggs—** Excuse me, old man, Spencer taught me this book if I leave you lying where you are.” knocked out of my pate. Item: (Goes out.) I'm getting poorer every day. THE ESSENCE OF UNVERACITY. NATHAN M. LEVY. THREE WINDOWS AND THE SIDEWALK. Window No. 1 Fourth story—" Guess Til test my new fire escape.” dow “Wonder w ing up be comicbooks.com