Judge — April 19, 1890 — page 4: what you’re looking at

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

JUDGE OUT OF THE SILKEN BONDAGE. TOA QUIET sort of hermit, rather out of fashion’s pale, There are slags of thought that glow in Lenten season ; ‘And for many an observance made to suit the time of woe He has been at loss to cudgel up a reason. He is sure that it is proper, by ecclesiastic rule, To allow the merry dance a long vacation ; But it puzzles and confuses when he's told by lips demure That ‘*a waltz at nine p. m. is adulation.” At an age so far behind him that he’s sore in retrospect He was taught that Lenten feed should be cum grano, And that ashes wrapped in sackcloth made a satisfying meal If the spirit did not grumble at the menu. Now he's dazzled by the vision of a table—satin-girt, As he stands without the groinéd marble casement, And he's rattled and bewildered when he’s told by lips demure ‘That “to dine without champagne is self-abasement.”” Asa hermit he has watched it, and he’s glad it’s come to pass ‘That the time for grave dissemble is now over ; A dinner is a dinner and a dance is now a dance, While the snows of March have blossomed into clover. But as he stops a moment to unfurl the flag of joy And congratulate the one-time penitential He is muddled and confuddled when he's told by lips demure ‘That “the change has really been inconsequential.” 1. coopwin, STRAWS SHOW, ETC. HUM OF THE COURT. : ; ee VistToR TO GALLERY —'I suppose the senator from PROVERB in Germany—Put a youth in the kaiser’s saddle and he will ride away from Kentucky is composing a speech. See how pensive he Bismarck. looks” , THE SENATOR (to page) —"* Don't take it away, sonny, ROY is going to have a cyclone. Anyhow, the 7¥mes of that city says Wiggins is a You can fill her up again in a minute.” hoary-headed humbug. A CLERGYMAN of Cleveland advertises his house as a nice place for weddings. Presently a house near by will be advertised as a nice place for divorces, and perhaps he can make a deal with the proprietor that will add to his enterprise and income. N THIS CITY a boy with a small bomb in his hip-pocket was spanked by his teacher. At least the young lady attempted the punishment and got in the first strike. The boy is still absent from school, and the teacher, quite the same as in a game of poker, is loth to show her hand. These are outlines for a dime novel treating especially of anarchists and the goddess of liberty. AN ACTRESS who does business on the strength of her shape and good looks permits her agent to assure the inland press that she posed for the Bartholdi statue as it would appear when completed, and that “the committee having the matter in charge” went into various raptures over it. Perhaps if Bartholdi had had this fascinating lady to pose for him the statue would have been very different; but as. things are it answers very well as an advertisement in the inland newspapers. CITIZENS of Arizona petition for the acquisition from Mexico of certain territory that will give Arizona a deep-water port on the gull of California, ‘That doesn’t go far enough, What they want is enough territory on the other side of the deep-water port to make the acqui- sition valuable; and having got that they will want Mexico in its entirety. That's the way these acquisitions work. Given the world, any aspiring association of men would immediately labor to get control of all the space outside of it. A CARPET KNIGHT. ,_ BRaxtcax—* Youse knows ye, Killen, Me anchistors wor Oirish kings, an’ sorra th’ wan o' thim iver quailed phin they wor fightin’ be done, Wasn't it me that hild th’ bloody carner in Gittysbur-rg phin"=— KILLen (as the cork hits Branigan) —" No ; Oi'll not ring ter an ambylance an’ sind fer a praste, Yez didn’t nade thim in Gittysburg, an’ yez won't git thim now,” comicbooks.com