Judge — December 1, 1900 — page 4: what you’re looking at

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Photo. by Pach Bros. JUDGE'S FAVORITES. GRACE GOLDEN, Grace, there was always something rich and A spirit soaring. in a voice of flame— in you those early days of Castle Square, hen you made friends who hail your present fame. Grandly you rise to passion’s mimic storm, Afull-grown artist ia a mere child's form. HIS SPECIALTY. Sally Gay—" Wally Softsmith is a great flatterer, isn’t he?” Dolly Swift—" Oh, yes, he al- ways talks as if he were dictating an epitaph for one’s tombstone.” AN IDEAL EXISTENCE. Weary Raggles—"\ wouldn't mind bein’ dis straw hat meself.” Wandering Willie—" How's dat, pard?” Weary Raggles blowed off all de time.” A NEW KIND OF COUGH. EGINALD met me at the wharf, ‘And said, with eager look : “* Auntie, I've got the hooking cough ! Do you want to hear me hook ?* “It's gittin’ SLIGHTLY DAM- AGED “ IVE me a dollar e and a half right AM away !” said a little fellow [{ fi ) j running into the house to tl his mother. ‘There's a : he’s got pug puppy, and he'll sell him to me for a dollar and a half, he said he would!” Well, he can't be a real pug puppy,” said the mother, “for if he was, he would be worth twenty-five del- lars. The boy has either stolen him, or something's wrong, you may depend uponit. A real pug puppy is worth more than a dollar and a half anywhere.” iy Hai A xi mpi a OR Cus-pians- B —"* How lucky it was that we happened to be near that dish of dough-nuts when our wheel broke.” “Well, he #5 a real pug puppy, I £now he is, for I've seen him myself; and nothing’s the BETTER LEFT UNTOUCHED. Frrpy—"'T'll have to remove the price-tag from this present I've bought for Miss Van Dusen. It says ‘ eight dollars, marked down to six dollars and fifty Percy—" Better leave it on, old chap. By the time she takes it back to price it, it will be marked down to three dollars and seventy-five cents.”” BARGAINS! BARGAINS! BARGAINS! ow PS) FOR ONE ALE WEEK Tie auctionreR—"* Now, here is a fine pair of shoes, big enough to be comfortable. A CINCH. matter with him but just he’s broken his leg, but it’s his hind leg and it don’t show!” A BALLADE OF THANKS- GIVING. OF all the blessings men receive Health is the chiefest, it is said : How well, surcease of sweet reprieve From pain has shown whoe'er some dread And lingering ill has chained abed Through periods of dire duress ; But, granting this boon's place the head, Let's first give thanks for thankfulness. Pure love requited! Ah! believe Him that flouts this, knave or mis- led. Let not his obloquies aggrieve. Smile down his sophistries instead. We on whom Hymen’s torch has shed Its light know how dear eyes can bless A hearth—but wedded or unwed Let's first give thanks for thankfulness, A shuttle's wealth from which we weave Inlife’s cloth many agolden thread ; And when its seas of sorrow heave, ‘A cruse from which the oil is led. ‘Wealth has supplied this bounteous spread For which we wait thanks to express, But, friends before we break our bread, Let's first give thanks for thankfulness. Whose sense of gratitude is dead, He lacks that gift which to possess Gives joy when other gifts are sped; Then first give thanks for thank- fulness. gowaep w. BARNARD. How much am I offered 2” Rastus (twith sweeping glance over feet of the audience}—" 1 guess I'll git dem at my own price. comicbooksicom