Judge — November 16, 1889 — page 6: what you’re looking at

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JUDGE THE PICTURE. A LITTLE Roman maid was she, With eyes more dark and flashing ‘Than any paint could hope to be, And so I stopped with dashing Upon the canvas merest hints Of velvet glooms and dewy glints. The great gold rings within her ears, ‘That chain her throat entwining, Suill gleam and glow tho’ envious years Have breathed upon their shining. And somehow, as I gaze, she sits Again upon my dais and—knits. ‘Ab, Tessa! [had not yet passed The tender age of twenty T thought him blest whose lines were cast In your soft land of plenty ; With some Italian maid for wife, He well might snap his thumbs at life In very bad Italian I stammered forth my wooing, At which you smiled, as women ca Upon a heart's undoing And pointed out the marriage-band Upon your little Tuscan hand, At home, you said, your Pietro boiled “The lentils for the dinner, While in the studios you toiled, A willing-souled bread But since he rocked the bambino, You said you did not mind it so. You went; but left behind a man Who scoffs at matrimony Since fate upset his pretty plan Of love and macaroni: Who sometimes as he smokes at night Has dreams of something dark and brig! CAUSE AND EFFECT. s¢]F THIS is Dey street, cemeter _ PROBABLY AN OVERSIGHT. Southern Republican (from Kentucky) Harrison has made one big mistake." Friend —* ow is that?” Southern Republican — He should have appointed a Kentuckian director of the mint.” said the stranger, “where's the “T tell you TIS only women gather autumn leaves SENTENCES PASSED BY THE JUDGE. A PLEASING creed lacks not believers. We generally wish to do a thing more than we wish we had done it. A crust is not only better than nothing, but is frequently better than a loaf. The weak soul is moulded by circumstances; the strong soul makes its own circumstances. One may stoop to conquer and still maintain one’s dig- nity; but to grovel in the dust is quite a different matter. After a long line of experience one will at length gain patience and endurance from the thought that nothing is ever quite as bad as it appears to be on the face of it. There is a goddess who holds in her hand a scale which always maintains a quivering equilibrium. At the right is suspended joy, at the left pain; and he who would take the one may not disturb the balance by leaving behind its counterpart. KATHRINE GROSJRAN, ‘They follow good example Mother Eve's. THE RASP OF THE CIGARETTE. Mr. Rousterter (going through the reservation) —"* What a horwibly wetched set they are, aren't they, lieutenant?" Bic Cater FRAYED PRAIRIE-DOG—"' Injun no smoke onions.” Mk. FarMuumrex —" Poor old gran'pop's got kinder feeble, but we can't support no drones round Clover-top ; an’ he don't mind exercise 's long 's he's incouraged.”” NO DOUBT ABOUT IT. A SMALL boy's class in natural history. Professor —“Animals that have no feet and craw! along the ground are called reptiles. Who can give me an example of a reptile?” Young Brown —"\ worm.” Professor —" Excellent. Now will some boy think of a second reptile ?” Young Jones —"Another worm.” ABSENT FRIENDS. OW oft we consider, with fond recollection, The friends that we made when we last sailed the main. We parted from many with honest affection, Regretting we never should see them again. “The captain and crew, while we lived on the ocean, To add to our comfort no effort would spare, And even the cook, with a touching devotio Every day in the soup sent us locks of his hair. EVA LOVETT CARSON, DIDN’T SEE THEM. DERSTAND you have just been down to St. Louis?” Yes; spent three days there.” “Did you see any of the big-bugs of the plac “No: T went to a brand-new hotel.” NO FAITH IN THE TIMEPIECE. Grimes —"\ wonder what the time is? Bagsby (looking) —" Five o'clock by my watch.” Grimes (disparagingly)—" Five o'clock by your watch means what time?” comicbooks.com