Judge — March 29, 1902 — page 3: what you’re looking at

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AMERICA AS I WENT ‘THROUGH IT. From advance sheets of Prince Henry's forthcoming book.) ICA consists of railway stations and city halls. The population —as far as the men are concerned—wears dense black mustaches and huskily whispers that it carries the vote of the tenth ward in its hip pocket. All trains stop fifteen minutes at each station, and al- ways a pale man with a high brow appears on the station platform and reads a speech. Most peculiar custom, but I pre- sume it is done to give the train- men a chance to rest. The depot is always crowded with people who shout and che; vociferously. The scenery of America is odd. It consists in the main of long board fences, on which are large letters. saying that “Jink’s juniper jelly” is a sure cure for dyspepsia, or that “ Widitt’s ten-cent watch is the best.” Occasionally these announcements are varied. ‘There must be other scenery, as once in a while there is a gap between the signs, when trees and grass may be scen in the distanc The dramatic attractions of America are interesting. I was told by a credible gentleman that the ladies who appeared in scanty attire and sang some- thing about being merry, merry villagers were the future nobility of America, He says that the will all marry dukes or lords. A WISE MAN. He says this is an invariable Hewrt—" Which do you prefer, blondes or brunettes ?"* een: Jewerr—" I have to prefer brunettes: my wife is a brunette and it doesn't do nulesiexcept that once inis for her to find a blonde hair on my coat,” one of them will make s milfions in the stock market and return to work in the laundry. — issued at ten o'clock of the morning « A wonderful feature of America papers are sold on the streets by Ia¢ n theatrical matters are the love sung by the negroes. They—the negroes—appear on the stage In Chicago there is a peculiar in green and red clothing and sing that they love their baby, When trustworthy gentleman on the trai songs Th AEE Ay ~ WAY UP. Mrs. Casey say$ her son Moike is way up in the polace departmint.”* He is thot. His picther is on th’ top row av th’ rogues’ gallery.”” Mrs, Grocan— Mrs, Furnn— I told the members of the com- mittee on entertainment that I heartily approved of such sincere parental affection they grew red in the face and one or two of them laughed spasmodically. The sti negro also sings about carving some fric d with a razor and about the moon shining behind the hill, — This is all he sings. It must be entertaining to go about the streets and sce these negroes at work in. their quaint costume In New York one evenit we attended a theatre where two men came out and talked ar sang. They were dressed in gar- ments that did not fit them and ge wooden shoes, wore their hair and whiskers were pale green. At times they would jump about in some kind of a dance, singing asked the chairman of the mittee what they were doing, and he said they were Gerr comedians. The newspapers of America are marvelous, ach one of them runs the country. Some of them have such large hi lines that they have to print the news in a supplement, if they print it at all. Each of them has the largest circulation on earth, and swears to it, If an t four o'clock in the afternoon, a full account accident happens of it, with pictures of the in- nd their imme- diate families, and diagrams of jured_ person the strects about their houses, and signed articles from them- selves, will appear in the extra of that It is wonderful. The 1s who speak an unknown tongue. custom. Twas informed by a in that divorce coupons are at- comicbooks.com