Judge — September 25, 1897 — page 10: what you’re looking at

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202 uape SHE APPROVES. VERY day something new. As I came along the street to-day I saw in the window of a banking-house a sign which read, “Bonds for proposals.’ That is something like, now, and I do hope the girls will insist upon their being used. ‘That is what I call introducing nineteenth-century business into romance and love-making,” remarked Miss Sallie Twitters to a bevy of young girls at a five-o'clock tea. “ How do they work ?” asked one of the maidens with deep interest. “1 didn’t make any inquiries about them, but I gathered from the announcement that they had specially prepared forms for the use of young men when proposing. The institution guarantees that the proposer is proposing in good faith, and in the event of a breaking off of the match by the young man it agrees to pay the girl so much money. That is what I un- derstand by it, and it strikes me as a good thing. When the plan goes into full effect no young man will think of propos- ing to a girl without presenting one of these bonds, properly made out, as a guarantee of good faith. I suppose that they are to be had in different sums, proportioned to the love the young man feels, and the value of the girl in his estimation, The more he loves her the higher will be the bond he will offer when seeking her hand. Of course he has to pay for these bonds himself, and if AS THE MATADOR WENT BY. Gezinsky (en four in Spain) —"* Vat ! dot vas der mosd b’utiful sighd vot 1 see in all my dravels. I could follow him forever!” FRAGILE. Miss Roseleaf's complexion is A KLONDIKE PHILOSOPHER. Vat's der madder, ain‘d id? Dot der Giontike gelt hubbub Vas got der peoble grazv enough ‘Vo leave und shtarve for grub! Vat's der madder? Cracious me! Vat's peobles thoughting apoud ‘To go und leave brosperity Und bier und sauer-kraut? Vat's der madder, ain'd id? Dose fools aindt all deadt yet Dot dey skevanders honest tollars Dot dey airnedt by honest sveat. Vat's der madder ? Cracious me! Vat's peobles thoughting apoud ‘To go und leave brosperity Und food vat feeds dere moud? Vat's der madder, ain'd it? I'm mad't as nefer again To see dem foolish fellers A pushin’ for dot train, Chumpin’ chiminy cracious ! Dot push vill nod catch me, Und my vife don'd vas no vidder. Bimblestein stays home, py chee ! W. #. COOK. Abie, make a look at dot man’s clothes— he entails loss upon the guarantee company by refusing or neglecting to fulfill his matrimonial engage- ment that company will mark him and he will be posted as untrust- worthy. He will lose his business standing, and that is something no man will do if he can help it. You can easily see, my dear girls, what an advantage it will be to become engaged to young men who are backed by these bonds, for those engagements will be kept in nine hundred and ninety-nine cases out of athousand. Now, girls, this sort of thing has not become the vogue yet, but it is bound to come. My advice to you all is to refuse to listen to any proposal of marriage if the young man is unwilling to support it by bonding himself in this way It is a great reform, and if it had been put in practice years ago there would be more married women at 4 Present than there are now.” WILLIAM MRNRY SiviTER, AN AID TO QUIETUDE, Al “the thirst voice nicely If cious extra A saved yet s sex is SHE (twithout the least touch of malice, of Pe cisgice ek SHE (without the least touch of malice, 0 . A “heer bor ez are playing the pi course) —" Very : I've known a single appl- Gj HURE, peraties are th’ bist koind * BO ana a sn Mrs. O'HARA cation of soap and water to ruin it, av baked banes. make so much noise. Maggie, pfwhat do yet wear your gloves for pfwhin 4 th! the baby ‘s shlaping, an’ Oi don't want to comicbooks.com