Judge — May 22, 1915 — page 10: what you’re looking at

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and the bill is paid, though the strain was great; and now, by blitzen! I'll start to save, with a heart triumphant and strong and brave. Ten bones each week I will place in soak, and thus the winter won't find me broke, and I'll be able to look ahead to stormy weather and know no dread.’” “The lawn is lovely,” his wife remarks; ‘‘it knocks the spots from the city parks. But folks who pass in a hurried way don’t see its beauties from day to day, so I've decided to bring them here and let them see how our grounds appear. A nice lawn party will just be right; I've asked the neighbors for Thurs- day night. So we must purchase a lot of things—some colored bunting and gaudy strings and Chinese Janterns, which are WHERE THE SWITCHES GROW a dream; a hundred gallons of «+ site boy, can you tell me where Willow Sireet is?” rich ice cream and nuts and «No; but pop can.” candies and things to eat—I ‘AN HEAVES a smile when the winter’s o'er, want this party to be a treat—and some money, so help me John! In spring and the blankety blizzards cease toroar, and you must order eight dozen chairs, and summer expenses shrink, and man can the furnace stands with an empty maw, with the a German band and some dancing gather a roll of chink!’’ damper shut, so the pipe won't draw. And he _ bears’’—— says, says he, ‘‘For a while I sha'n’t spend all And man, he turneth the briny To the Bitter End I earn on my heating plant, and I ought to salt loose; he’s up against it, so what's Crabshaw—Why don't you try to patch down some iron men before the cold weather the use? He has to buy what he's things up with your wife? shall come again. In the summertime the ex- told to buy, though hens quit laying Henpeck—It’s no use; she won’t even pense is light, and I’ll carry each week some bul- and cows go dry. grant an armistice. , lion bright to the savings bank, to be placed in The summer goes, and the bliz- brine. May the kind gods smile on this scheme zards roll, and once again he is buy- Our Fool Human Habit of mine!"" ing coal; and it keeps him broke all We Jay our burdens down at night, It looks so easy, when winter’s done, to save a__ the wintertime, so he cannot lasso an Dream of them till the morn; and then bundle of honest mon! And man, hechortles and extra dime. But still he says, We scarcely wait till it is light kicks his heels and fills the air with his gladsome ‘‘When the winter's gone, I'll save To crawl back under them again. spiels, But his wife remarks, ‘‘I have chartered John, our next-door neighbor, to tend the lawn. I want to make it a beauty spot, and here is a list of things I’ve bought— some shrubs and bushes and bulbs and trees and climbing roses and things like these. I know you're anxious as I can be to have a home that is fit to see; when the bill comes in, you'll be glad to pay— we'll save the money some other way."’ And man, he looks at the bill and groans; for many a week he will save no bones. He almost wishes the winter back, with the coal man’s wagons a-hauling slack. But his soul is soothed when the bushes grow and the roses per- fume all winds that blow. ‘The HIS FIRST APPEARANCE ON THE LINKS lawn is handsome, at any rate, Football player (regaining consciousness after being knocked out by golf ball) —Gee! some rough game, this!