Judge — April 29, 1893 — page 7: what you’re looking at

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BIG TRADE CAME. E1nsrein—"‘Ah, dot sign ought Giant (from Barnum's)—" Hello! GIant (inside)—"* T want one of to pring pig trade ” that looks cheap.” those fifteen-dollar suits. See?” Salita tt Lia A PASTEL IN PROSE. 5 'HE house had once been beautiful, but what desolation now reigned there! Soiled curtains, partly unhung, draped the windows. Chairs were grouped in odd places. Carpets were unswept and half taken up. Traces of sudden flight everywhere. Half-packed garments flung over opened trunks, Dust, disorder, desolation, The family were huddled in one room. The mother's haggard face told a tale of re- pressed woe. The baby moaned feebly in the corner. Never before had its faintest cry failed to bring loving words and caresses, but now its moans brought it no comfort. The mother turned her weary head in the direction of the child, and then sank back with a sigh on a half-upset lounge. The steady beating of the rain outside emphasized the dreariness within. The waning fire cast weird flashes across the room, revealing more plainly its utter desolation. Suddenly the -door was thrown open and a bright-faced, cheery boy entered. Shaking the rain-drops from his clothes he glanced around the dreary room, noting his father’s white, drawn face, his mother’s look of repressed agony, and caught a glimpse of the neglected baby. He saw the carpets and curtains and chairs and all, and in a voice of intensest surprise and sym- pathy exclaimed: p “Gee-whittaker! If I hadn't forgot that to-morrow was SHE WANTED THE ADVERT! Tr. movin’ day!” <¢ MATRON—"* Why didn't you secure a divorce from your husband when you ago? You could get it more easily there than anywhere else, you know.” THE man who has failed most is the one who most ‘SMREWD ACTRESS —" Yes, but it wouldn't cause a sensation there.” advises. ANNA PIRRFONT SIVITER, FITTED FOR IT BY NATURE, “What a charming conversationalist Mr. Fleecy is, to be sure.” He—"Yes, he has a great gift in that direction. I've often thought that Fleecy missed it when he decided not to go into the bunco business.” HELPING HIM OUT. HE TRIED to kiss the maiden true. For fear that he would fail She did as we had better do, She gently drew the veil. WHY HE QUIT. Mrs. Cawker —* My husband never says damn any more. Mrs. Dimling—"V'm glad he bas reforined.” Mrs. Cawher— It isn’t that. Some one told him the word wasn’t profane.” SYMPATHETIC, He—*T have just lost my position.” She—"Aren't you sorry?” He—Yes, for my father. It makes Bar-Keerer—* Well, gents, what shall it be?” PORTRAIT OF A MAN WHO es 1 Biecarbandeed (aghisee Mike—'I'll take a cocktail. You'd better try one, Pat.” BoASTS He aLWays sHaves ® difference of fifteen hundred dollars a Pat (just landed) —""1 say, Moike, if yez don’t mind I'll be afther havin’ WITHOUT A LOOKING-cLass. year to him.” some of the brist orta leg. I don’t think I could swally the fithers.” comicbooks.com