Judge — December 1887 — page 4: what you’re looking at

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CHRISTMAS JUDGE BOVE ALL the Christmas must be merry. It has been merry since it first began, and a Christmas wish without the introductory word to that effect would be the Christmas pudding without its plums. | Christ- mas is for the boys and girls, and on that day we older persons shed our years and become as children are. No wrinkles now. No business cares. No thought of anything that doesn’t belong to Christmas. A round face, with dimples at cheek and chin; a pair of happy eyes that look as if there had never been a tear in them ; aroar of gratified expectation, with some intermediate notes bespeaking gentler happiness—these things from attic to ground floor, and these from dawn to darkness. Then the Christmas night, the Christmas story, and the Christmas joke. Then the blazing fire and the blazing lights, to make the more impressive the outer frost. the drifted snow, the bristling icicle, the glittering Christmas stars. Then the bells of Christmas, which have new meaning on that night, and send it merrily out from every steeple and every horse’s neck. ‘Then the social gathering, with its select parties of two in secluded corners, propriety being insured as to sex, and other select parties of larger number the which are given to Christmas liquids, spiced as the Christmas directs, and the reminiscent Christmas smoke and talk, Then and there and everywhere the Curtstaas Jupce, which gifts to all the world from an army of Christmas artists and writers, each of whom sends greeting of peace and good-will, and hopes to meet the Jupce’s millions regularly for many Christmases to come. ee TO CORNELIUS VANDERBILT. The readers of the Curistmas Jupce get with this number of that publication a fac-simile in colors of the famous picture of the Horse Fair by Rosa Bonheur, the original of which was presented by Mr. Comelius Vanderbilt, in the interests of art, to the People, and is to be seen at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. This generosity of Mr. Vanderbilt is entitled to the largest appreciation, and the Junce feels that in inscribing this Christmas number to that gentleman it is voicing the feeling of lovers of art the country through. A. OTLLAM. One toc that the mariner does not keep—A yule log. Turkeys will now be cut low in the neck and gored at both Tus ts anout the time of year when nearly everybody seems Sides. to think it is more blessed to receive than to give. ‘Tue timid chicken is the wisest—it isn’t afraid to squawk. Tramps 1x THE COUNTRY are not popular nowadays; most of Poverty is not bad. The bird that is too poor to kill will live them are in the work-house. another year. ‘Tur 257 or Decemser is the one day of the year when papers , ded “Know All Men By These Presents” ought to. be BEST presents of all—The full stomach and the contented mind. circulated. Give Paddy the freedom of Ireland in a gold box. I 1s oxLy the man who can make his mark who ought to keep Xmas. To S. CLaus—Give George F. Train a balance wheel. ; Rie : : ’s stocking with Monroe doctrine. Maxv a coose will be seen at the Christmas dinner-table, and STUFF Uncle Sam's stocking with Monro ne unfortunately he won't be on the platter either. Ir Grover had his way he would get a second term in his. comicbooks.com