Judge — June 10, 1893 — page 11: what you’re looking at

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THROUGH RINGS OF SMOKE. A Reverie. As sit by the fire the embers grow dim ; My dainty cigarro, round, shapely and slim, Sends airily upward a volume of smoke. In the midst of the cloud I can see all the folk, “ving or dead, whom L once called my friends | j: the long ago. Another puff lends A ultional charm, for with vision balf clear My mind wanders back to the days — ah, how dear To my heart ! when in gay society's whirls Las free to make love to a dozen fair girls. That small, graceful ring of blue smoke curling Brings vividly back the dear days when my /eup Of happiness, surely, was full to the brim ; « [sit by the fire, the embers grow dim, And in that blue wreath that is floating above I sce the dear form of fair Nan, my first love. We met at the seashore four years last July. And ere the gay months of the summer sped by We two had made vows, vows e’er to be kept, And my dreams were ever of her when I slept. But in less than a month she had gone back to town; On another dark head I had placed my queen's crown, Her name was Marie, and if ever man loved With an ardent affection that must needs have proved His sincerity, that man was I, And ‘tis now Her eyes that remind me of my broken vow, As reproachfully, tenderly, still full of love, They glance down at me from that ring just above, The smoke changes ! the better! And now in that wreath I can see—Alfaretta. Bat no! A change for But the vision’s fast fading, and here in its place, | In kaleidoscope change, are the features of Grace. Grace was a stunner, a beauteous blonde, And a girl of whom'I was deucedly fon For she and I married on May twenty-eight, y two years gone by ; and it was our fate eat Not a great while ago—but where are those rings ? My cigar has gone out ; still a faint odor clings. But hark! there’s a ‘squall, clothes hid, That states 1 must walk all night long with that kid! 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A fire-alarm in Jackson park yesterday brought out so many Columbian guards that several hundred of them were stepped on and got their clothes mussed. Which goes to show how necessary they are.—Chicago Mail. “Mamma,” said five-year-old Nina, just re- turned from’ Sunday-school, **I don’t’like the disciples; I think they were silly.” |‘ The dreadful child {” said mamma to papa. ‘* What does she mean?" ‘ What makes you think so, Nina?’ asked papa. ‘‘ Why,” replied Nina, “our lesson to-day said they went through a corn-field on Sunday and pulled each other's ears."—New York Tribune. To quickly relieve Neuralgic Headache Use Bromo-Seltzer—Trial bottle, 10c. 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