Judge — August 17, 1901 — page 10: what you’re looking at

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ENOUGH SAID. HE STOOD and faced her. It was the bitterest moment of his life. “ Most men,” he said, “ re- cover from these affairs, Yet I am not like most men. To be rejected in itself is bad enough, but for me, with all my pride of heart, all my sensitiveness, it is terrible. I can school myself, no doubt, to recover from this blow, to go on alone without your love, but how can I endure the biting scorn of the world? When they know that you have refused me, how they will laugh, how they will jeer! I will be an endless subject for merry jests. This is too much! It is more than I “But,” she said gently, “ my friend, you will not have to say that I rejected you.” Aak.. “Then, if not that, what ON STRIKE, shall I say ?” he asked gloomily. Tue ‘cicareTre—"' What are the matches giving a torchlight procession for?" “ Simply tell them,” she replied, “ that you have Tu matcH-vox—'* Oh, can't you see they've struck 7" proposed. That will be enough.” CONFESSIONS OF AN UMBRELLA. WHEN left without my owner’s care How quickly I am cribbed ! And, gracious, how the thief will swear Should I be broken-ribbed. If by a woman I am held, And you should venture nigh, Don't blame me if I am compelled To jab you in the eye. The borrower has never learned How friends should be repaid. Though silk when lent, Iam returned In cotton garb arrayed. ‘Though bargain counters guarantee I will not split or crock, I’m apt to break in two or three Before I've gone a block. Though when it rains in me you find A friend, beyond a doubt, Remember that the wanton wind Oft turns me inside out. T hope you'll not despise me when ‘You think how I must feel In having changed the best of men, ‘And tempted them to steal. For even should I not become A vehicle of theft, Thereis reason why I'm feeling glum — I'm always getting left. JAMES Jay O'conWELL, JUST LIKE A WOMAN. Mar. Fisitzxman —"' By Jove, these bonnets are the best bait for mermaids I ever saw !" ‘TIS TO LAUGH. Boy—"' Which one of you has lost this tooth powder 7” comicbooks.com