Judge — April 10, 1915 — page 14: what you’re looking at

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SENDING THE Home Comforts ¢ Se van ‘HE HUSBAND comes home from the mart with jangled nerves and aching heart, for he has striven till he’s sore, to keep the lean wolf from his door. **A peaceful evening by the fire, ** he mutters, ‘tis my one de- sire; away from talk of trades and deals, away from money- changers’ spiels. When all my loved ones round me smile, I may forget, for one brief while, the long hard struggle for the price of bread and spuds and coal and ice."* He stows his meal away with care, and then sits in his rocking chair and heaves a sigh of deep relief; for one short night, fare- well to grief! A voice breaks through his waking dreams; his wife is talking some, it seems. ‘*My Sunday gown, “tis only fit to give ** he hears her say, SWALLOWS NORTH away. The heathen on some foreign shore might use it for a year or more; but all seams are torn and wrecked, and I can't keep my self-respect if I must wear that tawdry thing I bought six years ago this spring. I know you haven't cash to spare, but I must have some clothes to wear. “*And Julia's hat is just a sight! You wouldn't have your girl a fright? She sees the other girls go by, with lids and clothes that please the eye, and some of them have gems and furs; and she must wear that hat of hers, that Noah's s vented when they had the rain. **And Charles Augustus needs new boots and ought to have two brand-new suits. Iam ashamed the way he goes to school in his old shabby clothes. I know his teacher must exclaim, ‘The way they dress him isa shame!’ I know you are no millionaire, but you should want your boy to wear as handsome clothes as any lads, so you should spend a dozen scads. To save I most sincerely try, but there are things we'll have to buy. We need new rugs in every room—the old ones fill my soul with gloom; we need new railings on the stairs; we ought to have a dozen chairs; a carpet sweeper I must get, e’en though we have to go in debt''"— “Oh, jumping ginger!"? wails her hub, ‘‘I'll spend the even- ing at theclub! Perhaps in that sequestered nest, a weary married man may rest!"" Advice Needed “I will take the matter under advisement,"’ announced the referee in the divorce proceedings, ‘‘and will decide the case next week."" “But, your honor,’? mensely wealthy and’’. “*That,’’ said the referee, ‘‘is the point upon which I wish to be advised. This hearing is adjourned."" The Clock Was All Right Aman went into a clock store and handed out the pendulum of a clock, which he wished to leave for repairs. The clockman asked him why he didn’t bring the whole clock. “The clock is all right,’’ was the reply. ‘‘It’s the pendulum that won’t go. As soon as I pulled that out, the rest went like the very dickens.”” Great Revival of Literature in England Almost every town has its six or more best cellars. put in her counsel, ‘‘the appellant is im-