Judge — May 8, 1909 — page 4: what you’re looking at

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JUDGE'S FAVORITI A STUBHORY CINDERELLA? and Ap FOV PHE GILMER, 1 March w they could sit there forever, to swoop down upon them and see them pike for home, all unmindful of their vows. The human family has, of late, become a great pest; they de- light in an effort to exterminate us, even going so far maliciously as to fill our best ponds with ill-smelling oil until the meadows around simply reek with its ugly odors, We, of ‘course, are com- pelled to vacate for the time being. When thi go back and try to 4 making it hot, inde Mor: 1, dump in, wh ta tribute in blood. oil vaporates, we for those { into our pretty homes, and ch puts us to a deal of trouble All nations are oil is procur must get out ag: for which we ¢ it is simply natural | The greatest enemy of our people was the ma screens, All insets agree in this and revile him Phe next worst enemy is the man who puts them up on his house. We persecute him to the limit when tch him outside. Our people have no such mean traits ax these. Our homes are open to the world, so it is perfectly reasonable that we should resent man’s un- ned. perfo and expe alike in this in who invented cordingly. due exclusiveness, In the matter of gricf, the human mother thinks, when she loses one child, that her cup of sorrow is full, and accordingly into black for months; but the mosquito mother has been known to lose two hundred thousand sons in one summer, besides dozens of daughters, and her grief, therefore, is intensified more than two hundred and times, which, fora shows wonderful fortitude and marvelous will power. Our people are tant, and our armies are probably the greatest in the world; we have been known to put to flight whole battalic who thought to marshes. | thou sof men mp upon our member to ha heard father tell about his army having defeated those of Lee and t in two pitched battles where those great generals actually re- treated to high ground with all their men, tents, nition, and wagons. The ity of the who hastens to bathe ntive against ammu- orance aves royal, as a pre our assault, are most amus- ing to us. * Aye, Donald, ‘tis a terrible night for the lads in the air The tough, weather-beaten old man or maid has learned by ex- perience that a mosquito finds them rather repellent, and does not molest them except under the dire distress of hunget So we, in turn, have learned to follow the scent of the sweet-smelling concoc- tions to find the plump, pink-skinned girl, the soft dude, or the ten- resting in some s of circling, ain, while we are at peace and quietly secluded clump of pines, our attention is called toa m zigzagzing, waving lights, which at once suggests to us a feast, and we would be dumb, indeed, should we allow this opportunity to pass. I refer, of course, to the joss-stick habit in vogue 1 lawn parties sure to be rewarded with a good assorted , where wi and pien meal. I do not mean to brag always, for the life of a mosquito is short and hazardous enough. We have our shortcomings like all other living things, but, for our size, we make some stir in the world, and mean to look out for ourselves and our rights at all times, NOWADAYS. M‘ Nv wants but little here b Lut woman, pretty dov According ts and puffs, She wants ah low, MELODRAMA OF ‘THE FUTURE. Do ye think they ‘ll be goin’ on the steeples?