Judge — December 1887 — page 28: what you’re looking at

Machine-transcribed from the original scan — historical spelling and the odd misread are preserved.

CHRISTMAS JUDGE CIRCUMSTANTIAL EVIDENCE. Mrs, Sr. AvGustine CLARINDA—*'t yaint no white trash! 's been an’ went an’ dis'beyed me ‘gain, K’lindy. Who's de white trash yo's been a darncin’ wiv now?” Mistah Thoms'n, what owns de sleepin’-cyar on de N’ Yark Cent'l, done powdahs his gloves.” CHRISTMAS TRUTHS. When a girl’s stocking gets big enough to hold a good deal she stops hanging it up, The impecunious young man who has to give his best girl a present derives no consolation from the fact that Christmas comes but once a year. ‘The small boy who has his heart set on getting a sled, is always careful to put his mother’s mammoth clothes-basket in the most conspicuous part of the chimney corner. The girl with the toothache never appreciates her lover's kind- ness when he neglects to include a box of candy among his Christmas gifts. The rich man cannot appreciate his turkey half so much as the tramp who manages to get elbow room at the free-lunch counter. The shrewd boy hangs up his biggest stocking on Christmas eve. Santa Claus never gets his presents mixed. A RADICAL CURE. Oxb Cameo, after a night with the boy: pts an expedient for the cure of a headache, but. — it's a cold night, and he forgets to close the window, comicbooks.com