Judge — June 10, 1899 — page 5: what you’re looking at

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WHY SHE HATED THEM. HATE the very name of bloomers!” He gazed at her in surprise, He couldn't understand why she should say such a thing, for during the three days of their summer engage- ment he had found her anything but a prude. Only the night before he had sat with her in the hammoc the gentle evening breeze had swayed the frail network s\ given a little frightened. scream and held on tight—and it wasn't on to the hammock she had held, either. x “Yes,” she repeated, “I hate bloomers. Before you came into my life, dear, often have I climbed that hill and strained my eyes down the road that leads from the station. But day after day I gazed in vain. Not a sight of a man had I seen in this wilderness until your coming tured it into a paradise.” “But why do you hate bloomers, my dear?" he asked. “Why do I hate them?” she repeated bitterly.“ Ab, you don’t know what it is to be a girl and to watch and wait, day after day, for a man. Twenty times at least have I seen on the brow of that distant hill what I was sure was a man. I have cried and shouted for joy. And then— and then—just when happiness seemed mine the hateful thing has turned out to be a woman. Why do I hate bloomers? Oh, the very thought of them! Put your other arm around me, dear, or I'll fall out of this hammock.” JAMES JAY O'CONNELL, STANAWS, @& osTeND No, XX1, BELGIAN VENUS, To Helgium’s favored beach, Ostend, ‘We ‘tly from London or Paree, ‘A weekcin sun and surf to spend— 7 Aiso, dear nymph, to gaze on thee. ‘A goodly shape, in sooth, art thou! ‘e-incarnation, it may be, ‘Of her who once, as thou art now, Was Venus risen from the sea. - COSTLY CON- VERSATION. New arrival— “How much fer a night's lodgin’, pard 2” Klondike hotel- keeper —" Six. dollars and a half, One dol- lar, please. New arrival — “One dollar? What fer?" Holel-keeper— Fer askin’ how much it ‘ud be.” HIS PREDICA- MENT. ay \ MAN is known by the company he keeps. There's a good deal of truth in that and it worries me.” * What's the mat- ter? Can't you cut away from some of your associates ?” A RECOGNITION. “Not handily. Sux—" Is it my Bill, or that horrible Smith Bill? Oh, my poor You see, I'm married old eyes! If I could only make out those patches.” to her.” comicbooks.com