Judge — June 15, 1895 — page 10: what you’re looking at

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886 Siage A DISCREET FINE. DARKEYTOWN CAPTAIN (interested financially in the association) —** See heah, Mistah Empiah ; de laws ob dis assocyashun ‘lows yo' toe fine a playah one hundred dollahs fo" drawin’ a razzer. Wha’d yo’ mean, den, by only finin’ dat fitin’ coon sixty caints ?” Unpint JErPERSON —'* Well, de ‘socyashun ‘s got a fitin’ charnce ob git- tin’ de sixty!” Da's whad I means." LOOKS THAT WAY. Cora — “Isn't the vatican the largest residence in the world ?” Merritt —"\ once thought so, but judging from all the personal relics now on sale, the largest must have been the place where Napoleon lived.” A SUCCESSFUL EFFORT. Bob —" Did the living pictures go off all right?” Polly —* Beautifully. We made a hundred dollars. The hall was packed.” Bob —" Wf 1 could just have seen yours! I didn’t care a rap about the rest. What were you?” Polly —" Elaine. On her bier, you know. 1 oughtn’t to mention it, but everybody said it was really pretty.” This fe the Kind of tnfant which grows Into this type of woman. And this form of boy becomes this Io after life. Bob —" Pretty? As though it could be anything but beautiful with vou in it.” Polly —" It’s sweet of you to say so. We did have such a time with it! Everything went wrong. They hadn't provided anything but an iron- ing-board for the bier and 1 was awfully uncomfortable, and provoked too. Julia Gardner said I Jooked provoked, and not dead a bit. Then somebody had done something with the powder and I couldn't whiten my face, and 1 was all flushed up with hurrying around, You know how red I get "— ° Bob —" Rosy and beautiful.” Polly—" Only when you ought to look dead—that wasn’t all. They'd used the cloth-of-gold in the queen-of-Sheba scene and we couldnt find ICHTH YO SAUBUS' OF Tie TERTIARY PROVIDENTIALLY EXTINCT. Pat (at the museum)—" Faith, Moike, did yez iver see th’ loikes uv thot, now 7" z_an’ Oi've seen most iveryt'in; hank th’ Lord thim things died before Casey opened his new it, and they had to draw a quilt over me—a pink silk-and-velvet quilt they had for the cradle tableau. My hair was the most aggravating thing, though —‘All her bright hair streaming down,’ you know — but I had for- gotten to crimp it and I knew it wouldn't look nice at all, and I had to leave it done up on top of my head. Mrs. Gillette stuck a fancy comb into it—T don't know how it looked Bob —" Sweet, of course.” Polly—"1 presume it wasn’t quite the thing for. Elaine, though. And then the lily I ought to have held in my right hand—Sadie Berry had arranged to bring one for me and she didn’t, and she gave me a bunch of chrysanthemums she had on and I held ¢hose.” Bob—" Why not?” Polly —“\ had the letter in my left hand all right; only it was a pink envelope. Jack Berry was the deaf-mute that rowed the barge, and he got his cos- tume all mixed up with some- body else’s and had to put on Sadie’s golf-cape in a hurry at the last minute, and he got it on with the plaid side out. It was all right, though. The audience liked it ever-so-much, and ap- plauded lots. ‘They had to raise the curtain three times.” Bob—" Of course they did !” thing grows up {nto the loudest o Polly —™ And everybod Sor women et ‘Ae told me it was awfully ped IN THE ORDINARY COURSE OF THINGS. I was so glad they liked it!” EMDIA A. OFFER, Tw car at “Ud reade pictur sleeve labele was t she sa isag you § Ms dren yams rheea, “yr ad ar list, did, a stor Then 10 th is cot comicbooks.com