Judge — December 9, 1893 — page 29: what you’re looking at

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(qt i Eve Prertyone (fo her fiancé) —** Ob, how do you do, Harry? Come in. — HER GIFT. te PRAY, give me something new for Christmas day. I have more scarfs than I can ever wear; For slippers, let me say, I do not care. ‘Though a good book is never in the way Thave no time for reading. Give me, pray, No more cigars; I have cigars to spare. Give me no fountain-pens—they make me swear ; No knives before my tortured eyes display.” Ah, pretty Stella overheard my plaint, And knowing well I loved her, blushing, “low very deep, it seems, is your despair. Your troubles, sure, would aggravate a saint, And so I think "—and here she bowed her head— **1'l give you just myself; so take me. There!" NATHAN M, LEVY. HUMBLE PIE, Brown—" Johnnie said he wouldn't have had you see him steal the cake for anything.” Mrs. Bro because he sulked at dinner-time and didn’t want to admit that he was hungry.” NEW LIGHT ON THE SUBJECT. Qe —T'll turn up the gas, — Sy ¢ Harry (five second: later)—"" There, dear! 1 have a match.” —There! it’s out. How silly !" BOOKS FOR CHRISTMAS. FOR the juryman—Addison's “ Spectator.” The gossip Hawthorne's “Twice - told Tales.” The ‘bus-driver—Doran’s “Annals of the Stage.” The street gas-lighter—Ruskin's “Seven Lamps.” ‘The humorist—Burton’s “Anatomy of Mel- ancholy.” The silent man—Landor’s “* Imaginary Con- versations.” The dude — Abercrombie’s Philosophy.” ‘The hasty man ond Thoughts.” The egg-dealer—Macaulay’s “The Lays of Ancient Rome.” The ushe of the (Ajisles.”” The candlestick-maker — Edwin Arnold's “The Light of the World.” “Intellectual Rhoda Broughton’s “ Sec- Sir Walter Scott's “The Lord AN ELOPEMENT IN HIGH LIFE IN CENTRAL AFRICA, comicbooks.com