Judge — May 27, 1905 — page 7: what you’re looking at

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AN* SHOWS Johnny ») How Its Done. By Perkin Worbsck LITTLE JOHNNY had a string that had become much snarled, and Johnny's temper was. fast going to pieces in his effort it. The old looked on with the indulgent and very to. untangle man kindly sympathy born of age and experience and fell to moralizing on the incident. «That's the way of the world,” mused the old man, the snarls in life and_ presently lose patience, up worse th: rer «We tackle and then we snarl things The worst tangles, even in the hig simple case of snarle: nd the way to go about straightening them out is simply to find the end of the string and coolly trace it up, loosening ita bit here and a bit there, until all at once the snarl disappears, and there you are.” n before, rs of men, By this time Johnny was dancing round on one foot and yelling like an Ind «biting at the string with his teeth, a hopeless state. nd getting it inte . Johnay !" crooned the old man, coming out of his moralizing \ pap show you how to straighten it out.” ing the string, pap set out quietly to reduce the snarl hy the painless method, Meanwhile he went on to Johnny like this: “You see, Johnny, your temper was only making matters worse Later in life you will run up against this kind of thing ‘right along RAISING AN OBJECTION. YOUNG and dashing widow that I {seme months ated walked off with it Hd wine her isn't ep My heart ensnared cu Vet the fact that 1 ev KT waive one wee sjectionn she is 6 She's all my heart desires in the one I'd Hut her five-year-old son Joliny is the lnther « For Ecannot pop the questivn when he’s teatting And he's the one objection she is raisi GERALDINE’S IRONY. “If you don’t marry ine T shall blow my brains out.” Geraldine—“ Why don't you aim at some vital spot 2” Gerald WHERE HE GOT THE HABIT. Sponger (prouly) Spicer worked my way through college.” Oh, was that where you got the habit 2" .you keep your eye on dad and see how a little patience will yank the meanness out of this string in no time.” There was a temporary hitch in the proceedings at this point, and dad_ merely repeated his last words several times, with shght pauses, like this, © In at— no—time —at — all.” Another pause. ap hitched his chair a little closer to the light nl made a new start no—time Pause Then and put his tongue out But things didn’t seem to he going right, and Johnny shortly became aware that dad was do- ing rather less talking and appeared to be concentrating more on the work in hand. ‘Then the talk resumed — but it was different. “Confound it! T thought Ehad it that time.” And dad made a gesture in the air with both arms, as if he had jumped for a ball in centre field and missed it, Johnny also got ing done. “In Then he hitched still closer to the light. p closer, so he could see just how the thing was be- “Git out o' my light !"'yelled pap, not harshly, but with vigor and decision. Johnny went round to the other side. the string went on. ‘The work of straightening * Thunderation and polecats! what in time ‘s the matter with the infernal thing 2” was pap’s next observation, Then he bent to his task with a nervous intensity that was telling on his constitution, Johnny backed off discreetly. “Jerusalem and golden candlesticks !" was dad's next remark after a few moments of earnest application. «That's the way [ was doing it,” ventured Johnny. Doing it!" yelled the old man, “1 should say you were doir Why in blazes didn’t you let it alone? get this thing out of the mess you've got it into.” At this point Johnny slipped quietly up stairs and said to mother, “1 guess Fl play up here a while, 1 believe pap is worried about something.” it! No living mortal could Did the old man unsnarl the string? He did. With the aid of a pair of shears that string was untangled, but it would be folly to refer to it lurther asa string. WHY THE SWEET-PEASE NEVER CAME UP. YOUNG lady in South Jersey is very fond of flowers. days of spring she planted a small hed of sweet-pe: the seeds in a package behind the clock on the mantel. small white envelope, In the early She found They were in pmarked, but she felt sure they were sweet- Four weeks liter she began to be exercised by the failure of the pease to appear. of weeds, pease, She had tended them well, kept the bed clear nd well watered, But for mere accident she might still be in doubt. Her father was taken ill one day and asked his daughter to yet the little package of pills from behind the clock, ‘The young lady was unable to find any pills behind the clock. ‘Then she remembered. She thinks she knows now why the sweet-pease never ¢ cup. STARS ARE DISTANT. + That woman's eyes are like stars.” +L noticed a far-away look in them.” Henry James ONLY A DREAM. Farms (one a, m.) “Is that young n h. papa! He has just asked Ithought. Wake him up! asleep. Marie?” to marry him and make him happy for life comicbooks.com