Judge — August 7, 1909 — page 3: what you’re looking at

Machine-transcribed from the original scan — historical spelling and the odd misread are preserved.

TEACUP TIME. HEN the hour of four is nearing, That’s themoment fond, endearing, That's the time for the appearing Of the tray! That's the time for bibble-babble, That's the hour for gibble-gabble, When the grand old gossip rabble Has its say! Listen to the merry prattle, en to the tittle-tattle! How they reel and roll and rattle . O’er their tea! “* Have you heard of her engagement?” “« Did his bankers make arrangement? “ What's the cause of the estrangement?” “* Mercy me!"” “Is that singing?” ‘So they call it!”” ** Nowadaya they have to bawl it To be heard at all, for all i Hurts them so “Thank the gods, she’s through! Did you ever hear such lingo?”” “ Was it Bostonese or Bingo?” “ Blest "fino!" “« By jingo! Here you meet Sir Mezzofanti, All the local dilettanti, Toinmy Noodle and his (What a pill!), Painters smelling of their brushes, Actors wreathed in smiles and blushes, And the dear old thing who gushes Over nil! Auntie”” Duc, duchesse, coquette, and dandy, Quoting ‘ Praed "’ or “* Tristam Shandy "'— “« Mollia tempora fandi!"" (What conceit!) “* Won't you have more punch?"’ ‘* No, thank “Come on, you crank, you!" evoir!”” (Come on, you tank, you!") “Mind your feet!” cuanesce: unwy “ Miack or green tea, Mrs. Rafferty >” “WASTED ERGY.” “Tommy rot! 1 'll take me oath they ‘Il be as dirty as ever inside of a month,*? VITAL PART. “Is it good form for a girl to wear such an abbreviated bathing suit?”’ “I guess that depends altogether on whether the girl has the good form."* SOME THINGS COME BY INSTINCT. Scaver—" T have to tell that boy of mine where everything is." We “ Have to tell him where the baseball grounds are located, where the cir- cus is showing, or where the best swimming-holes are UP-TO.DATE. + Shure Oi 've been readin’ that pink tay is all the go. Oi think Oi "ll be afther tryin’ some of that” comicbooks.com