Judge — June 22, 1889 — page 5: what you’re looking at

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173 BIRDS OF PASSAGE. fa IKE AS the flight of the birds migratory, ing the air with the beat of their pinions— Steady, but rushing; calm, but im petuous, All trending seaward ; all with a purpose Is the great drift to the French exposition, Here stops the simile—stops short and sudden. Birds fly for reasons, Man flies for pleasure Flies sometimes too high, but still it's his object, While, unlike the birdlets, he has to take ducats, Ducats accessory to keep up the wing-power. SUMMER - RESORT LIFE. (ON THE PIAZZA.) Mrs. Readjpen (vivacious if not always veracious)—"Oh, Mr. Amoureux, you have noth- ing to do for an hour; Miss Helen won't be down a min- ute before four; do take pity on me and give me some points for my letter to-morrow.” Mr. Amoureux— \s it pos- sible you lack inspiration?” Mrs. Readypen —"No; 1 lack types. I have written you all up in every possible fashion —done over Miss Helen and yourself in so many pictur- esque, romantic ways I have positively worn you thread- bare. Mr, Amoureux (who has not relished the doing-over process) —"H'm, yes. I have read your letters with consider- able attention, Mrs. Readypen, and I have discovered that you have overlooked one very no- ticeable character of summer- Hy @ DAYS RACE WRONGLY IDENTIFIED, fle i GAM (as Guy de Peyster Rhinestander and his sister co by) —" i, Rosie there give him anythi Birds, to0, come back to begin a new season— Come back and sing in their sweet exhilaration. Ten out of twenty of men who've scen Paris Stay there much longer than was first intended— Stay there because of the wet walking homeward. Mrs, Readypen —"\t last!" Goat’ Mr. Amoureux —" Should be written up by every corre- spondent who pays for her summer outing by doing over the unhappy mortals who come within stab of her quill, Ab, there is Miss Helen; good- afternoon, Mrs. Readypen.”” Mrs. Ready pen (looking after him, perplexed)—""Whom. can he mean? 1 should so love to put her in my letter.” DIDN'T HAVE ANY. Fleecy—""\ saw that old man stop you at the last cor- “He said he was poor and wanted Fleecy —" Wut you didn’t resort life.” goes der Star gang of lion-tamers, Fiddsey Mulvey's fader seen ‘m down ter der Do No; I didn't Mrs, Readypen—Vou — 0w'ry theaster las! week don’t tell me so! how delightful! whom have I forgotter Mr, Amoureuc (pulling his mustache) fortunate there is such an infinite variety of women !—generally a married woman whose husband is so far in the background his existence is only suspected by her use of the married sign "— Mrs. Readypen (intercupting in a lively manner) ——“ Oh, Mr. Amoureux, wait a moment; do let me take notes!" Mr, Amoureux (continuing slowly) —" Indeed, there are people ill-natured enough to say that she is Mrs. or Miss as suits her convenience and location; however, that is really of little consequence. Personally she is not necessarily ill-favored; her manners are rather free—although she doubtless would term them easy; she has an idea, too, that because she is herself she can be frequently rude, as she invariably condunes any such offense with ‘Oh, you don't mind that from me, you know!’ or some similar phrase. Mrs, Readypen—" Oh, | shall really have to take you down verbatim.” Mr, Amoureux —" Do, please. She is popular in the sense of being every- where at all times, and she is most unpopular in the sense of being wanted nowhere.” Mrs, Readypen —* How delightfully paradoxical !" Mr, Amoureux —" She is not without a certain super she thinks herself a close student of human nature; in scans personalities, jumps at conclusions, and generalizes bi important foibles, which she incorrectly r Mrs, Readypen—"1 cannot stand this another moment. You must let me know who this most extraordinary personage is or typifies.” Mr, Amoureux—“\n good time, dear Mrs. Readypen—T am _ nearly through.” (Speaking very rapidly) —“*She is, besides all | have said, a meddle- some, impertinent person ; a woman of expansive imagination, not to say actual mendacity; a woman who is continually putting modest, respectable people in a false light, who loves a scandal, a bit of gossip, or a compromising situation as she loves her dinner; a woman, in short". Mrs. Readypen “Ab! now we will have her identit A DEMORALIZING PROFESSION. ‘ANG —'* There's one time when you naval men must feel Mr. Amoureux —" Who is so intent upon laying bare the mote in her horribly humiliated and degra LIRUTENANT DARRELL I'd like to know what you mean.” . Miss be STA! Why, I mean when you have to associate with those common trade-winds. brother's and sister's eye that the beam upon beam in her own optics go by unmolested, and who—" comicbooks.com