Judge — December 16, 1905 — page 34: what you’re looking at

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AT CHRISTMAS, ITH a bit of mistletoe Woven in her golden hair, *Neath the lamplight’s rosy glow See her sit demurely there: Sweetheart, thou art fair indeed, With thy roguish, laughing eyes— Yet within thy glance I read Something of a vexed surprise. Ah, I guess thy meaning now, Berry white and mystic spray— And from tender lip and brow I shall kiss the pout away ! LWURAWA W. SHELDON. OUGHT TO BE NICE, A MAGAZINE list of gifts suitable for a young man contains the following: Gun- metal swastika. That ought to be a nice present for a young. man of simple tastes who. looks. to the impulse behind the gift rather than toany special value in the thing given. All our varied life long we have want- ed a swastika, but nobody ever gave us one. We would buy it for ourself, but we don't know what it is and never saw anybody who did know. A HAPPY IDEA, 4s AND here,” said the Lonesomville hostess, showing her home to a city visitor, “here is our little drawing- room. Isn't the furniture attractive ?" + Quite," replied the visitor. “ And every bit of it we got saving coupons out of packages “of Nearwood, the brain-building breakfast-food.” “Dear me! You must have eaten an enormous quantity of it to get enough coupons ?”” «Eaten it? We don’t eat it. We keep it.” « What for ?” “To use as stuffing when the furni- ture needs to be upholstered again, of course.” Dunn —* Why is it that all the * stores reduce prices after Christmas ?” Dyer— Because nobody can afford , to pay the former prices.” COPYALENT 1904 BY JUDGE COMPANY PUBLISNERS, 226 FOURTH AVE. EW YORK. AS USUAL, HE stands upon the ladder tall, Her Christmas wreath all ready ; She holds the nail’ against the wall, Prepared to hit it steady. But hark! what means that fearful wail? Its anguish would affright one— It simply means she hit a nail, Bat it was not the right one. WAS THIS CONCEIT? 'HE old rector of a fashion- able church having sudden- ly taken ill one Sunday morn- ing, the newly-arrived curate was thus unexpectedly called upon to preach. When the time came for the sermon the young man tremblingly entered the pulpit and explained his trying position to the congregation somewhat as follows: “My dear brethren, owing to the sudden indisposition of the rec- tor, I have been obliged to come before you without the neces- sary sermon preparation, so that this morning I shall have to depend on the Lord for what 1 am to say to you, but in the evening I hope to do better.” HIS DILEMMA. THE conscientious minister contemplat- ed Mr. Gaveit’s cheque with indeci- sion, It was for one thousand two hun- dred dollars. “It would surely be a great help, John,” his wife said wistfully. «The children all need clothes, and William's expenses at college this year will be "—— “Oh, I know all about that, Mary, he interrupted. « But the idea that the money is tainted troubles me exceedingly.” “You don’t mean that Mr. Gaveit made the money dishonestly ?” she ex- claimed. “No; not that,” the perplexed man hastened to say.“ But you know he made it manufacturing limburger cheese,” Dyer—" Have you made any prep- arations for Christmas 2” Wyld— Got two books of blank cheques from the bank to-day.” Sacer tWidwins Lite PrgCa NewYork comicbooks.com