Judge — December 28, 1901 — page 16: what you’re looking at

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‘THE CHRISTMAS MAN. T IE aisles he trudges up and down, Mid jostling, scornful sisters ; Upon his face an anxious frown, Upon his feet some blisters. Perhaps a lover, nerved with 1 Perhaps a husband, “popper At any rate, that sorry wight— A Mr. Christmas Shopper. He visits many a foreign land By pathways crowded, vexing ; He sees, arrayed on either hand, Strange objects and perplex Now here, now there, with fevered gaze He hesitates, and lingers, And picks frail things from racks and trays With curious, clumsy fingers. Poor soul! — condemned ‘mongst silverware Disconsolate to wander ; At silks to clutch with wild despair; oe O'er filigree to ponder. 2 soul!—no doubt a Adept at stock But in is hustling, bustling sphere An infant at a dicker! By clerks o’cr-awed, by women bumped, Yet present, willy-nilly ; Ideas all together dumped ; Flushed, sheepish, mad and silly ; Pretending knowledge, while mi By cen the biggest whopper, My blessings on your muddled he Oh, Mr. Christmas Shoppet A FEMININE POINT OF VIEW. ON CHRISTMAS EV! Lite) : say that Amy didn’t marry for Mrs Froo—" There, now you've done it. Didn't tell you not to take the chimney off the lamp Gladys —* But she did, though—for love of or the light would go out?” money. . THE PEACE ADVOCATE WHO LEARNED TO BOX. A Fatte PIOUS INDIVIDUAL who had advocated the ubolishment of war and the substitution of arbitration for force in settli disputes was once assaulted by a gent who thought he had a gr The pious individual knew nothing about scrappin After rest ance. sg and the assailant put it all over him, a few days the advocate of arbitration went to an ex-pugilist and asked to receive instruc- tion in the manly art of sell-defense, But you are opposed to war,” said the ex-scrapper. Certainly 1 am," said the pious individual, who was not so foolish as many of his associates, * but that is merely a theory. What Tam after now is instruction in practice Moral— An upper cutis often more convincing than much talk. WON HOLLAND. GIVING AND RECEIVING. FOR Christmas gifts, the ste has quite gone out Ofhanging stockings up; the thing is now ress a tree, then list the young. sters shout bough. Thus customs change as years go by apa spairi Men, old amd young, cach year at THE ACCOMMODATING BEAR. “uncle's " place If 1 were with you, Mr. Bear, “Hang up F overcnats for Great bliss would brim my cup.” Christmas its * Then backward down I'll slide and by KV PARMRLE GREKNE My tail I'l tow you up.” TH S been estimated that one able-bodied silkworm, working eight hours a day, can clothe an entire comic-opera chorus in ten minutes. DISCOVERED. * How de do, Mr. Docr ?"" CIRCUMSTANCES ALTER CASES. Tne jax—" Hal 1am discovered, How dit you know me?” r “1 thought you were perfectly delighted with the Tue xNow—"'l heard you were traveling incognito, and 1 Chivtstiiag preentvour wie aie car knew that when a door was not a door it was a jar. a PiSae hh) ORTEWHE, Bava yous Besides, | can see you're jam." Crabshaw- t that time I didn’t know she'd had it charged.” comicbooks.com