Judge — February 11, 1911 — page 6: what you’re looking at

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Nature Sonnets. (By the Village Poet.) IS NICE to hear the rooster crow at dawn, When all the world is opening its eyes And red is breaking through the eastern skies; ) For then we know that dismal night is gone s And that another happy day is born, How fine to spring from bed with health aglow, With the thermometer, say, ten below, And greet the golden, frosty, country morn! And thus it is the rooster, noble bird! Announces to the world the coming day. Sad must that mortal be who's never heard His ‘‘Cock-a-doodle-doo!’’ so bright and gay! I fear we'd oversleep, upon my word! Did not the rooster sound his rounde- lay. Jor Come, Feminine Wisdom. sso YOU are attending cooking school?’’ says the friend. ‘Are you going to do your own work?"" “No. I want to be able to teach my husband how to prepare the meals in an emergency."” Patient Griselda. TTHE BONNY young bride does not meet her husband at the door with asmile. After wondering search of the house, he finds her in the kitchen, very stringy of hair and much wearied as to looks. “Why in the world are you working so hard in this hot kitchen?”’ he asks. “‘L was only trying to cook the rice the way you said you liked it,”’ she an- swers, in a voice that suggests tears. “Cooking the rice?’’ “Yes. You said you liked it cooked so that every grain was separate—and I've spent all day here cooking each grain separately—and there’s so many grains—and I just think it’s—boo-hoo! Discharged. Judge—‘ What's the charge, officer?” Policeman—‘‘Your honor, he stole a brace from a carpenter shop."” Judge—‘Discharged! There is no penalty for taking a brace.’’ Our Greatest Need. THEY will put up a fine monument— There isn’t much doubt as to that— To the man who will only invent Some sort of a hatpinless hat. “WHAT GOD HATH JOINED TOGETHER LET NO MAN PUT ASUNDER.” Judge's Suggestion for City Seals. THE TWIN CITIES OF ST. PAUL AND MINNEAPOLIS. Sage Tea. HE PHILOSOPHER who has thought the thing out carefully and claims to speak by the card tells us that very few men love their creditors, but that those who do love them unremit- tingly. They are said to be so complete down on royalty over there in Portugal that even Manuel Training is to be abol- ished from the Those who have observed the ways of the late King closely say that they don’t blame them, either, It frequently happens that the man who has won a turkey in a raffle finds, when he comes to carve it up for his family later, that it is only another case of tough luck, after all. Silence, the sages in their infinite wisdom have told us, is golden. One never realizes the fact so poignantly however, as when he begins to buy it from some needy person who is uncom- fortably familiar with certain episodes in his past life. An ‘‘esteemed contemporary,” a few Sundays ago, printed a very interesting picture of the King of Spain riding on a camel. We presume his Majesty is tak- ing a few practice lessons for the par- ticular job of sitting on the Spanish throne for the next few years. Our old friend Bildad has just written us to say that the height cf jealousy is reached by the man who goes off into a fit of rage when he sees his favorite manicure holding some other fellow's hand. schools. Short, Too. HE MONTH of February's short, And so I like it, don’t 3 Because in this it seems to have A sort of sympathy for me. comicbooks.com