Judge — February 23, 1907 — page 6: what you’re looking at

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BOBBIE'S VIEW OF IT. BROTH Washington and Lincoln 1 do hold in veneration For all the things they said and did to help build up the nation. "Tis difficult to choose from out their wondrous store of samples ‘The worthiest of all their acts to set us kids examples. And yet, as far as I'm concerned, though other minds may vary, I like the most the fact that they were born in February. "Twas very kind of them, I think, to have the circumspection, When choosing to be born, to make so pleasing a selection. For had they chosen Christmas week to go and get them born in, Or made their first appearance on some pleasant summer mornin’, We kids, who have to go to school to get an education, Would not have had two holidays for mental relaxation. BLAKEY GRAY. THESE RAPID TIMES. SeTHIS is a rapid age, all right,” said the man on the tenth strap ot the car. «It is," replied the man on the eleventh. ++ We live too fast and we work too fast for comfort.” +1 saw an old friend of mine to-day. He has aged twenty years in twelve months.” «Tcan believe it.I sawa barrel of whiskey to-day that had been aged ten years in half an hour,” said the other man. THE “ YELLOWS" AFTER HIM. “'Good-morning, George! Is Mr. Washington in?" "Yeth, thir; but he ith very bithy.”* “Well. tell your father that I'm from the Weekly Saffron, and should like to interview him on that cherry-tree story.” A SMILE. HLAT is it thrills the manly breast And soothes the soul’s desire? What gives each trifling action zest And kindles Love's own fire? What is it sets the head awhirl And drugs each sense meanwhile? It is to meet a pretty girl And win from her a smile, What is it steals with subtle tread Across fair wisdom's way And tints with iridescent red ‘The normal hue of day? What is it brings the sad mishap, The gloom when night is o'er? It is to meet some other chap And have a smile—or more. LUKAMA W, SHELDON. FROM THE SUBLIME TO THE — +4 YOW beautiful is the snow!" he said. ++So white, so pure, so universal! It falls alike on rich and poor. It turns the beggar’s hovel to a dream of glistening beauty, But just then a snowball caught him under the ear and a half-ton of the same material fell from a cornice and lodged between his collar and his neck. And he spake no more. A SHOCKING CHARGE. WASHINGTON had just succeeded in erecting a battery at Dorchester He might be able to charge this batte Realizing that electricity was yet in its infancy, Washington decided to History is unkind enough to say that the Red- the great leader sighed, “if Ben Franklin were only here we = IT BREAKS 1HE MONOTONY. * So you really crossed the desert in your auto? It must have been an interesting trip.”* “Yes, but ‘frightfully monotonous. It's a relief to run into people once in a while.”* FIE, GEORGIE! STE lifted to her rosy lips A luscious cocktail cher y And, musing reminiscently, charge the British inste coats were greatly shocked. A QUICK RECOVERY. Dick Shunary—«V'm glad Roosevelt got over it sald so easily.” « Georgie, . . “Georgie, you were very, Al Phabet—" Got over es what ? Impulsive to have axed your Dick Shunary —“ That tree bad spell.” So ‘twould bear no future . floaters BACK TO ANANIAS. ‘That might become Manhattan Ses F . fads Earli Who w (Ob liguid chisessproeene: AMT. Ananias, fatner His father — Voelieve he was the man who started most of the fairy tales about George Washington.” EVIDENTLY HONEST. Mr. Sportieicn Miss Axtigue—"* No—honest.”” * Were you ever kissed before?" [™ 15 easy to be liberal with what belongs to some one else comicbooks.com