Judge — March 20, 1897 — page 4: what you’re looking at

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488 : uage THE IRISH WEDDING. THE litte cabin gray and old Is roofed with moss and patches ; The windows shake with shattered panes, ‘The doors with broken latches. A creeper to the crumbling eaves Its way is slowly threading, But there they came from far and near, ‘The night of Nora's wedding. If you across the ridgy field Had happened to be straying You might have heard from dark till dawn The blind old fiddler playing : And, peering in, you might have seen A wrinkled woman heading The mazes of an Irish jig, The night of Nora's wedding. She brushed her whitened locks aside And courtesied down the middle, Still keeping perfect step and time ‘To partner and to fiddle. Her ample skirts of woolen stuff Coquettishly outspreading— The fire of youth was in her eye, The night of Nora's wedding. Oh, Nora was so faira bride ‘She needed no adorning, But Nora's mother kept the floor Until the early morning. With all the grace of seventeen The merry measures treading, She danced the lads and lassies down, ‘The night of Nora's wedding. Photo. by Morrison, JUDGE'S FAVORITES. MINNA IRVING. FOR SOCIETY'S SAKE [7 WAS at Michael Hoolihan’s wake that Mrs. Muldoon, Mrs. Keogh and Mrs, Flanigan were discussing the physical and mental pain which women sometimes endure for society's sake, Patrick Muldoon was an interested listener. MAY IRWIN, You is a wondah, jes’ turned loose— No Black Patti, but got a good excuse, ‘An’ you sing dem coon selections out 9 sight ‘our Crappy Dan hab always got his gun, Dat's how you ‘cumulate de mon, An’ dere’sa hot time at de Bijou ebery night THERE IS DANGER. elt SEEMS odd,” remarked Mrs. Tenspot, “that with all the words in the English language an ordinary person's vocabulary is only about two thousand five hundred words.” replied her you to be Me careful? Why?” You go through your vocabulary so many times a day there is danger that you will wear it out.” BEAR AND (4) BEAR i nearly exploded.” SUPERLATIVE GRAFT. Bux vakin—"t Take my advice, pard, an’ giv up de injured.limb appeal. You'll be losin’ de use of dat paralized leg ef yer dont exercise it.” HOreurss PARALYTIC glasses hurtin’ your real eyesight BLIND FAKIR—‘* Dey don't. Dey are a preventative frum ever losin’ it. See?” W'ot erbout dem smoked UN + Oxpspoxt—"* I should hope so.” Mrs. Keogh, “ was to kape me composure an entertain callers in the parlor when Oi could hear me drunken husband a-breakin’ up the dishes in the kitchen. Oi tell yez, “Spakin’ of bearin’ pain for socoiety’s sake,” observed Patrick Muldoon, “did any of yez ladies ever get shaved in a foive-cent shop on the Bowery?” wavrex cwaur. “A DRAWBACK. Aunt— Well, Ethel, how do you like your new little brother ?" Etnen (aged four)—** I don't like him at all. He can't even speak English.” NECESSARILY. “* That Miss Featherlim dresses out of “Shure,” said Mrs, Flannigan," the most painful thing Oi ever endured for socoiety’s sake was wearin’ number t'ree shoes on me number foive feet at me darter’s weddin’. Me feet nearly kilt me intoirely.” “ Faith,” remarked Mrs. Muldoon, “an’ the most tryin’ thing Oi ever exparienced for socoiety’s sake was to look pleasant an’ receive me guests when Oi saw me husband a-flirtin’ at our tin weddin’ wid thot frisky, red- haired, freckle-faced Mulcahy girl. Oi was mad all over.” “ Well, the most painful thing Oi ever endured for socoiety’s sake,” said comicbooks.com