Judge — November 21, 1903 — page 4: what you’re looking at

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JUDGE'S FAVORITES. PAULA EDWARDES. All your warbling is the thing That 1s worth the price, And who once doth hear you sing Wants to hear you twice. That is why you, near or far, In your triumph skim To all hearts, oh, shining star! That will ne’er grow dim. AGAINST HER PRINCIPLES. seMRs. ALIMONY contemplates another di- vorce. “I'm not surprised. She won't let any hus- band become permanently identified with her.” WINTER'S SHOW IS ON. HE snowflakes do a dizzy dance. The ice is cracking jolly quips ; ‘The frost, in moving pictures, through A thousand varied figures slips. The wind is chorusing a glee That thrills the woods until the trees Throw off reserve and madly do A bare-limbed ballet in the breeze. First cuaurreur—' He has papers in his pocket showin} APPRECIATED THE HONOR, oe E SHOULD like the chairman of the com- mittee to the eminent his- torical novelist, “to have you speak at our annual banquet. There are to be six speakers, all of them famous literary people like yourself. I trust that you can see -your way to being with us, and you will par- don me for informing you that there is to be an hon- orarium of one hundred dol- lars for each speaker.” Realizing that to ap- pear at this banquet would greatly add to his vogue, the eminent novelist replied, “IT shall be happy to speak at the banquet, as you request. With regard to the honorarium mentioned, will say that while I think it is a little high, still the resulting advertising will be worth the money to me, and Tinclose my cheque for the hundred.” ‘WOULD BE A HARD- SHIP. ‘THAT explorer says that away off in the “THEY COME HIGH, BUT WE MUST HAVE THEM.” south, where he comes from, they have thirty and thirty-one nights in the month,” says the first Esquimau boy. “Gee! that wouldn't suit father,” asserts the second Esquimau boy. " Every time he went to the lodge he would lose about fifty days’ work.” LOCAL REPARTEE. 4+ PARDON me, gentlemen,” said the individual who had just moved into the little town as he entered the grocery, but is there a chicken-raiser here 2” “Why don’t you take an axe?” asked the village Talleyrand. “A razor will lose its edge if you use it on a chicken.” BEHIND THE SCENES. The manager— Who is that man over there in the wings?” The leading-lady (complacently)—",h, that is my angel.” DEAD SLOW. that he comes from Philadelphia."* Secon’ cnaurreur—" Good! He must have been dead before you hit him.”* comicbooks.com