Judge — February 6, 1904 — page 6: what you’re looking at

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SPRING STYLES IN lieve poetry will reach a VERSE. : : higher point in 1904 than THE Imost widely-read ever before. Already a poetry for the spring contract has been made of 1904 will be in the for painting a whiskey form of snappy, concise couplet on the side of an _ little quatrains, Of these cighteen-story building the crop will be immense, in letters twenty-four feet and the majority of them tall. will aim to teach some And still there are lesson or inculcate some some who claim that the idea. poem as an article of These Poems will commerce is declining. appear with illustrations, Having written numer- and will be published in ous poems, I can persori- rows in street-cars, just . 3 : ally deny this. It is the above the straps, so that rae editors to whom the he who stands may read. poems are submitted that While hardly pathetic, are declining —with they will often be mov- P A . thanks. ing, and they may be said = Siiss fasiere crite: to form a circulating li- HIS QUANDARY. brary of poetry, or an- Druggist —« What . thology on wheels. is it, sir? Mr. Chiney—l really don't know; I'm in a quandary. The “Jim Bumps once thought moths have almost ruin- his soap-dust twins ed my wig, and I don't Would catch the whoop. know whether to get ing-cough. moth-balls or hair-re- He gave them “powder,” fe and now he wears stOKEE The ‘grin that won't j come off.’ " A FAINT-HEARTED , PIRATE. “Little Jack Horner sat in Tommy Tuff—Say, a corner, y NS tie Trying to’ buckle his | ~ fellers! this kid ‘sno vex { _—: good. He won't play He stuck his poor thumb pirate ‘cause his mudder And shouted, «By gum! Lay 7 ‘I give him a lickin’ fer Binks eye gittin’ his collar dirty.” The prevailing styles will closely adhere to the following foretastes : “Pretty Miss Brown of A WOMAN'S WAY. Spotless Town Mr, Thompson— Is a queen in all soci- “Jones told me a secret ties ” to-day. Because, she declares, oe Mes. Th Trigg’s corsets she : Mrs. Thompson wears— y (anxiously) —" What was There are fifty-seven va- in?” rieties.” Mr. Thompson— ie sll evseen op “The one I told you last these that the trolley-car / weeks Th more soul than had the Jones‘isvsuch a. tatters trolley-car poem of 1903. Vilcnever il ‘herany- In looking over the ia" ? new samples, one comes wines to the conclusion that while the breakfast-food a) poems will strike an oat of humor, the canned- \ soup quatrains will be some pumpkins,” says in more liquid measure ; - the visitor. that while the pickle lyr- Vie “That fellow with ics will offer greater va- Wy, the high hat and the riety, the corset verses Prince Albert coat?” asks will present a straight the native. “I guess he front to the critics and is some pumpkins. He go off with a long hip, has just been elected for hip, hurrah; and” that the fifth consecutive time while the odes to auto- president of our vege- matic pianos will be tarian club.” more musical to the ear, TENREYN STAN laws. the champagne poems S6QUT on the Ay: will have more snap and exclaimed the sparkle. quick-witted but unpop- Altogether, it is safe NO SENTIMENT FOR A CENT. . ular actor as he stopped to predict a great spring- {My husband cares only for money. He has no finer sentiments whatever. an egg from which a poetry season. We be- “Not one. INFLATED HIM. Se THAT man across the street walks as if he thought he was Why, | can ery for hours without getting a cent out of him.” chicken dropped. comicbooks.com