Judge — May 6, 1911 — page 17: what you’re looking at

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CUPID'S ALMANAC. By OLIVER HERFORD and JOHN CECIL CLAY. mewing of Pussy Willow is heard in the land. The month will end with soft engaging weather. Is BRINGING out Cupid’s Almanac, we have deemed it advisable to de- vote our principal effort to informing you, good Hearticulturists, just what the con- ditions of the elements will be at the va- rious seasons. This is of the greatest importance, and the success of your work depends largely upon the judgment used in selecting the time to begin. Enthusiasm is necessary, but do not be too impetuous, for many a failure has come from rushing ahead while yet con- ditions are too cold, and many a Hope ine has been killed by a late frost. If you have started your work indoors do not be in too great haste to set out; young plants need a great deal of warmth and attention, and can stand extremely high temperature, while very little cold is apt to be fatal. In Hearticulture so much depends on—whether ? WEATHER FORECAST. ESS cold but very changeable. Brief intervals of smiling weather, suc- ceeded by frowning clouds and petulant showers. Sudden storms, accompanied by floods of tears, which dry rapidly as warmer feeling prevails. The first Spring Hats begin to come out and the een THE BULL. ‘Thro’ melting cloads the ever-gairing Sen Predicts a rise in Summer's stock to-day. The Bears of Winter now are on the run, ‘The Ball of Spring o'er April's Bourse holds sway. Spring Notes from Queehawkett. (Prom the Qorebawtett Blast.) N SPITE of the fact that Josiah Boli- var, of the Bolivar Palace Hotel, has declined to advertise his famous hostelry in our Special Hotel Number, to appear early in June, we are going to be gener- ous enough to give him sufficient free reading space to announce that he was a generous buyer at Bill Stiggins’s annual clearing-out sale of last season’s canned goods. Colonel Bolivar purchased sixty cans of 1909 stewed corn, three dozen tins of tomato soup left over from 1908, seven bags of nuts and raisins found in Stiggins’s cellar last fall, four hundred boxes of imported sardines laid in by the Stiggins concern in 1904, and many other delicacies which his patrons will probably enjoy this season at the colo- nel’s well-known and deservedly distin- guished table. We are requested to announce to the patrons of the Wigmore, out upon Slithers’s Bluff, that the price of lumber has been so high during the winter months that the managers have been un- able to fulfill their promises of new doors throughout their esteemed hos- telry, but that certain objections ad- vanced against the old doors have been met by the placing of panes of ground glass in all the keyholes, thus insuring 4 greater privacy for their guests. “HEY, CUT THAT OUT, DOWN THERE ! YOU'LL WAKE THE BaBy !” Untiring as ever in their efforts to make their house attractive, the Misses Dubbleigh, of Halcyon Hall, have pur- chased a new Tiddledywink set and a Parcheesi board for the use and amuse- ment of guests during the coming season. Applications for use of these will be honored in the order of their receipt, but they must not be used by single players for more than one consecutive hour if other players are waiting for their turn. A wholly innocent remark of ours in a recent paragraph in this paper, to the effect that, in the event of the price of rubber going up to a prohibitive figure, our town cobblers could not do better than to make their rubber heels this coming season from the Welsh rabbits manufactured at the Cherry House, hav- ing given offense to the proprietors of that popular hotel, we hereby withdraw it. We will even go so far as to say that our cobblers could do very much better by advising their patrons to eat the aforesaid rabbits, thereby escaping the need of rubber heels altogether by having to take to their beds. F A COUNTRY youth grows up, goes out into the world, and achieves money, family, and fame, the old school- mistress in the little red schoolhouse back home declares that he is a credit to her. comicbooks.com