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Cam. Press
“PRESS”–INGS.
The above title does not mean that we have to press
extra hard to bring these items out, but that we have to press the editor
all-fired hard to get them printed.
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We would like to
enquire if the Cambridge circuit is a round trip?
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No wonder an
Evening Post or an Evening Telegram won’t pay. Nothing Democratic is paying
now. Of course the d---l is to pay, as usual, but he is always on their side
and so that is to be expected.
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“RUBEN” REVISED.
Wilson, Wilson, I’ve
been thinking,
What a good world
this would be,
If that “bill”
should be transported
Far beyond the
Northern sea.
–
JOE CONE.
June 2, ’94.
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2 July 7, ‘94
PRESSINGS.
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When cars are late and people wait,
They murmur loud and deep;
But when one comes along “just right,”
You hear no grateful peep.
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New York needs a
Parkarst, but Cambridge only a park.
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When people tell
you to “go hire a hall,” rest assured they make no reference to Tammany.
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Felix – Do you
think, Madge, that the average minister is a benefit to the community?
Madge –
Well-er-perhaps all of them are not a benefit to the community, as a whole; but
to individuals, young people, you know, they are indispensable, and Felix
kicked himself all the way home for asking such a question.
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A friend writes
asking our opinion of rats. To this question we have no reply to make, but if
he had added a C, making it “Crats,” we could speak volumes.
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A sign of better
times: “J. Hunter Openface, First Class Watch Repairer.”
JOE CONE.
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PRESSINGS.
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HOW ABSURD.
And it came to pass in a certain town
Of rare
municipal fame,
For enforcing the law (and that’s what he’s for),
The mayor,
poor man, was to blame.
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Now then for a
song, “After the Strike is Over.”
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“Or course all
presses are nice, but I think the Cambridge press is the nicest,” said the
summer girl. Wonder how she knew?
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Practice holding the
breath for three minutes, then you will be better prepared to meet the nearly
overlapping fragrance when you come to the end of Craigie Bridge, going from
Cambridge to Boston.
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A word to young men:
before letting yourselves become entangled in a serious courtship, find out, if
possible, if the old gentleman ever belonged to the college eleven. It might
save you from “backsliding,” you know.
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JOE CONE.
July 21, ‘94
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PRESSINGS.
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The fire alarm will often bring
From bed a
score of men;
Who, when their own alarm clock rings,
Will fall
asleep again.
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It will need no
broom to make a clean sweep this year, and for some years to come; the same old
Republican broom will do it.
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And now a Cambridge
man has actually found fault because the streets were watered too much! But I
forgot to say, he is a bicyclist and has no real estate.
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If no other good
has come out of the Senate, the people have seen enough of them to keep them
out of any future rapid transit commission.
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The Cambridge
parsons now, in order to get the good will of the young people once more, ought
to try to force the druggists to give a larger glass of soda for five cents.
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During the last
State election, Governor Greenhalge said something to this effect in Union
Hall: “Although we cannot stop the Democrats from passing such a bill, we can,
by making a big showing at the polls, say to them, ‘go slow!’” Heavens! but
haven’t they been slow?
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TO J. B. W.
Don’t be afraid to shoot a line
Of poetry in
the PRESS;
The law is off, and you could hit
A verse or
two, I guess.
JOE CONE.
Aug. 18, ’94.
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PRESSINGS.
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What makes the Democrat just now
Improve each
shining hour,
By gathering all the “sweet” he can
From each
politic flower?
Because he knoweth soon that he
Won’t any
longer be a bee!
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Democrat (who has
been trying to defend his party) – O, let up; haven’t we suffered enough
already?
Republican – No;
but too many honest Republicans have.
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The sugar trust is
said to have lots of sand; it will be well to examine your sugar before using.
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Greely – After all,
there are lots of generous fellows in Cambridge.
Gramm – How so?
So many of them are
going to “allow” their names to go on the next election ticket.
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HE SAVED HIMSELF.
Mrs. Jellus – Do you
admire bloomers on women who ride the wheel?
Her Husband – I do
not know; I – you see, I always turn my head when I see them coming.
Mrs. Jellus – I knew
you were a darling old fellow.
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We would be as glad
as anybody to see business take a bloom once more, but do not be deceived; most
of these Democratic newspaper booms are all smoke and no noise.
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HE PUT HIS FOOT IN
IT.
He was a
progressive young man and took a deep interest in Cambridge affairs. The other
evening he met his girl in Central square and they started out for a love-r-ly
stroll. A few moments passed, then his favorite theme entered his thoughts and
he said: “Say, Jessie, do you believe in annexation?” The young lady stopped,
looked ’round, then blushingly cried: “O, Harry, this is so sudden!”
JOE
CONE.
Sept. 1, ’94.
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PRESSINGS.
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The Maine election plainly shows
Which way the little current flows.
Good Democrats, let party slide;
It’s easy swimming with the tide.
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Son – What is a
political pot, father?
Father – A political
pot, my son, is a large kettle into which a certain party casts the hacked-up
remains of an opposing candidate for the purpose of stewing. When he is
properly cooked, he is generously served by his opponents to the public at some
rally.
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Reed and McKinley,
McKinley and Reed, Thomas McKinley and William Reed, Reed McKinley and McKinley
Reed, McReed and Kinley, or – O, which, how, what and when shall it be.
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It is a noticeable
fact that in nearly all the reports of battles wherein China is worsted there
is something said about Japan’s taking a mean advantage, etc. Poor little Jap!
and yet they say all is fair in war.
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There isn’t a speck
of truth in the report that the writer’s name has been mentioned in connection
with the next mayoralty contest!
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How much more spicy
Cambridge journalism could be made if one of the papers were Democratic.
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Boy – What is an
old-line Democrat, pa?
Pa – An old-line
Democrat, my son, is one who makes two lines, thus: “X,” instead of signing his
name.
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A Boston Sunday
paper recently asked a number of prominent clergymen to answer by letter the
following question: “Are clergymen overpaid?” The question should have been
asked of the congregation instead.
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Gladys – I shan’t
go to Boston anymore and come home late at night.
Prudence – Why not?
Gladys – Well, if I
walk, I always meet a lot of men who are full, and if I attempt to get on a
car, that is full, too.
JOE
CONE.
Sept. 22, ’94.
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PRESSINGS.
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BOOMTOWN
There is a place called Boomtown, where business booms
and booms;
The air is filled with racket from the hammers, wheels
and looms;
They are calling loud for labor, of every size and kind,
And – O, you ask were is it? Why, it’s only in my mind.
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Sizer
– A large gang of burglars entered a house in East Cambridge a few days ago.
Lizer
– Is that so; whose house was it?
Sizer
– Captain Fiske’s house of correction.
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Weeker
– They say Cleveland is a man above his party.
Standbi
– Yes, he is, officially.
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Riddler – Policemen are not quarrelsome as a
rule.
Punnuck
– That is so; I had noticed that they are seldom ever in one.
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First
Cambridgeite – How can three squares form a triangle?
Second
Cambridgeite – It is impossible.
F.
C. – Not at all; Harvard, Central and Inman.
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I
would np more think of annexing Cambridge to Boston than I would of giving a
pure and beautiful daughter of mine in marriage to a rum-scented and
rum-disfigured man. This is a strong statement, but there is as much sense in
doing one of the above as the other.
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Oct. 20, 1894.
PRESSINGS.
8 Nov. 24, ’94.
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Our little wallet’s empty yet,
The same our cookey jar;
But neither’s quite so empty as
The average circuit car.
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“What
is a name?” A good deal when you are selecting a Cambridge paper at the news
stand. The PRESS catches the eye
first, also the trade.
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“hill
and wilson” should be the next presidential candidates.
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The Bay State Brewing building has at last
turned pale with shame.
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Heeler
– Will you run for mayor?
Peeler
– Bet your life I will; which way did he go?
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If
it is so that the store keepers want license, thinking it will help their
trade, they should look at both sides of the question. By gaining a little
trade from the drinking man they might lose a great deal from the temperance
man. They should remember that Cambridge, as it is, holds out large
inducements for a good class of temperate people to locate here. Whose trade is
the best?
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Mebbe
it won’t be “Gov. Bancroft” some day; wait.
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“It
is not good for man to be
Alone,” he softly said;
“Better
for women tho’,” said she,
Then fell a silence dead.
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A Cambridge idea –
There is no place like it.
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Do not worry; there
will be one “W. A. B.” up for mayor this year.
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Mrs. Watsun
(looking up from her paper) – I think now is the time prize fighting was
stopped altogether.
Mr. Watsun – I
don’t. You don’t? No. Why not? I wouldn’t want them to stop till they had
killed one an other all off.
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O,
no, no room have we for you
You founts of ale and beer;
Stay
o’er the bridge where you belong;
You have no license here.
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Many, and I believe
just complaints are heard from East Cambridge working people who wish to ride
Cambridgeward, at the infrequency of cars of Cambridge street from five to six
P.M. It will not matter how often cars are advertised to run, so long as that
Lowell street route is continued they are liable to be late coming out anywhere
from one hour to three days.
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“How to Make Boston
Greater” was discussed in the Sunday Globe. Here is a way – Reduce the price of
marriage licenses and don’t turn out the young man so early.
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The only difference
between Dr. Parkhurst, and some of the other New York divines is, that while
they were thinking over what ought to be done, he got up and did it.
CACOETHES SCRIBENDI.
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PRESSINGS.
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“D. J. Retlaw,” indeed, indeed,
We had not
long to falter;
We read it backwards and we found
’Twas simply
old friend Walter.
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Tartar
– My wife is saddest when she sings.
Billby
-Strange she should sing then, isn’t it?
Tartar
– No; you see, she wishes to be alone wen she sings.
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McPhunn
– I’ve found a sure way to cure the blues.
DeSloe
– How is that?
McPhunn
– By making up jokes.
DeSloe
– Why; do people laugh at them?
McPhunn
-No; but I do myself.
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In the swim – Fish.
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Rough
on rats – Pussy.
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The
West End Street Railway Company does first rate during heavy snows, for those
who want to go lengthwise of the streets, but how about it for those who want
to cross?
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A
barkin dog may never bite,
A
drunken tough may never fight;
But
we hev got the right idee, –
We
never heng eroun tur see.
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A flock of geese
numbering about fifty, flew over Cambridge a few Sundays ago. They were tired,
as their plaintive calls clearly told. Tired of what? There is but one thing in
this country to be tired of just now, and that is the present administration at
Wash., D. C.
Feb. 16, 1895. JOE CONE.
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[For the Cambridge
Press.]
PRESSINGS.
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BY
J. C.
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She says she loves me, truly,
But will not
be my wife;
But, “If I’ll be her husband,
She’ll marry
me for life.”
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“It’s
mighty strange,” said Prater who went to the World’s Fair, and who has talked
of nothing since, “how little interest people take in listening to the
wonderful things I saw while in Chicago.”
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“I
would like to get measured for a suit,” said the wag to the lawyer.
“All
right,” said the lawyer, “just let me get the size of your bank book.”
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Stephen
(thoughtfully) – Are you my sin, mamma?
Mamma
(shocked) – Why no, Stephen, why do you ask?
Stephen
– Well, you told me once that my sin would find me out, and when you found me
out last night on the cookey business, I thought you must be my sin.
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Little
drops of water,
Little grains of grit;
On
the floor in kitchen,
Give my wife a fit.
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The
sooner a fellow can make up his mind to “give,” in the place of “loan,” the
sooner will begin his sweet and peaceful existence.
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Juber – I’ll be
mighty glad when summer hats come round again.
Lee – Why so?
Juber – People can
talk through them so much easier than they can through winter ones.
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In “Darkest”
Cambridge – the Lower Port.
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If
you have got a “Sweet Marie,”
And
she is beautiful to see;
Don’t
tell your chum, whate’er you do,
Lest
he should learn to think so, too!
Mar. 30, ’1895. CACOETHES SCRIBENDI.
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June
29, 1895.
PRESSINGS.
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SMALL
BUSINESS.
“Ah, me; ah, me,” the maiden sighed;
“What joy t’would be to feel,
That we could use our bathing suits
To ride upon the wheel.”
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LOOKING
BACKWARD.
Cambridge
Teacher (in 1900) – Who was governor of Massachusetts in 1897?
First
Scholar – Billy Russell.
Teacher
– Next.
Second
Scholar – Billy Bacroft.
Teacher
– Right.
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WHY,
YES.
Hass
– I don’t think policemen should be allowed to ride upon our streetcars.
Bass
– I do.
Hass
– Why?
Bass
– Naturally they are all beat out.
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WOMAN’S
WAY.
Ganzey
Boy – Dad’s taken a whole dose of Paris green.
Mrs.
Ganzey – Heavens! What shall we do?
Ganzey
Boy – Do? Do nothing! Wait till I’m done. Dad has taken a whole dose of Paris
green out of the tater patch.
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The
city resident has not the sweet notes of the song bird to fall upon his ear as
he sits dreamily by the open window, but day by day the sweet notes of the would-be
cornetist thrill his soul like unto the death wail of a stuck pig.
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THE
COSTS OF TROUTING.
His outfit cost him
a good round sum,
And his guide to row him around;
And the fish he
purchased in town at night
Cost him twenty-five cents per pound.
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HOW
OPINIONS WILL DIFFER.
Some people think
drug stores oughtn’t be open at all on the Sabbath day, and others think they
ought to be a little more open than they are at present.
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NO
MORE STUDY FOR HER.
Wellis – Don’t you
think you could learn to love me after a while?
Alice – I am all
through my schooling days, sir.
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WHAT
IT HAS COME TO.
Caller – Is the manager
in?
Editor (referring
to the office boy) – No sir; he’s just gone out on an errand; take a chair.
JOE CONE.
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PRESSINGS.
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Upon her
wheel I saw her steal,
In costume to my liking;
She thought
I slept, – instead I crept
To see her do her byking.
But I was
caught, (tho’ not a thought
Had she that I were peeking;)
And soon as she
appeared to me,
Her answer I was seeking.
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Undated, but
written on July 29, 1895.
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PRESSINGS.
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THE
DAYS AND I.
Sweet summer days are past,
And scarlet spots ’mid brown and gold
Now thickly dot the hillside bold,
And dying
leaves fall fast.
My summer days have passed,
And streaks of gray now thickly dot
My once black hair, while from one spot
The dying threads fall fast.
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Between
Central and Harvard squares, on Massachusetts avenue, there are 18 physicians,
none on either side. And yet they say there isn’t much sickness in that quarter
of the city.
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The
Democrats made a clean sweep in ’92. In order to do it in ’96 they will have to
get a new broom; they cannot do it with an old one – that is, Grover.
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It
isn’t any longer, “What are your politics?” It is, “What paper do you read?”
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Old
Cambridge – Where do you buy your coal?
Young
Cambridge – Down at “Coal”man’s; where do you?
O. C. – Down at
Trilby’s.
Y.
C. – Trilby, who’s Trilby?
O.
C. – Why er, Proudfoot.
– JOE CONE.
Oct, 19, 95.
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PRESSINGS.
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NO
MARK DOWNS.
“A penny for your
thoughts,” said he,
Beside the fireside’s glow,
“I guess I’ll keep
them sir,” said she,
You value them too low.”
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Shades
on an educated city! A new store on Cambridge street contained a sign recently
which read: “Stationary and Piraticals For Sale.”
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Another
one a little farther down the street had one, “Come in and Examining Goods.”
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“How
much would you give to have the saloon brought back into Cambridge?” a resident
asked his old friend Pat.
“Oi
would give ivery cint o’ me wages, Oi would,” said Pat, smacking his lips; and
his answer probably contained more truth than he really supposed.
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Now
and then a store window shows signs of approaching Christmas, and already the
small boy shows signs of becoming a better boy – for the time being.
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Five
cents doesn’t buy a West End street car; it merely pays your fare from one
point to another.
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Waggs
– East Cambridge must be a good field for doctors and undertakers.
Dudle
– Why so?
Waggs
– There’s so much coffin there.
– JOE CONE.
_Nov 30, ’95.____
Dec 5, 1895.
PRESSINGS.
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Personal
Points, Puns and Paragraphs.
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No, Agnes W., “Coach Lehman was not brought to Cambridge
to run in opposition to the West End street cars.
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I
go every year to do my Christmas shopping early so as “to avoid the rush,” but
always find the rush there ahead of me.
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East
Cambridge barbers are going to unite in charging twenty-five cents for a hair
cut. Now this will do one of two things; it will either drive all the Johnnies
out of Ward Three or else cause them to be mistaken for footballists in
civilian clothes.
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Did
you ever listen to one of the dialect conductors while coming out on a
Cambridge street trolley? It goes something like this:
“Trans’f’
Station!”
“Secont
Street!”
“Fourt’
Street!”
“Fift!”
“Sixt!”
“Eight’
Street!”
“Ellum
– Ellum!”
“Trem
– unt!”
“Pruspec’!”
But
here I get out and walk.
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CASE FOR A GLOBE
REPORTER.
This
man is hard to understand,
He puts my thought to rout;
I’ve
never found him in, and so
I cannot find him out.
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It
is better to play the devil behind the footlights than behind the pulpit.
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Little
Rastus Jones – Go in an’ ax mammy ef wese kin go skatin’ an’ I’se’ll give yer a
piece ov my tutti-fruitti.
Little
Clem Jones – Go away, Ras’ Jones, yo’ don’ play no gum games on dis yer chile.
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Nurse
– The baby is cutting a tooth.
Young
Mother – Heavens! Take away the knife!
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Miss
Cerene – How very human is the voice of the violin.
Old
Nervuss – How – inhuman, you mean.
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Is
Miss Rappid really as bad as people say she is? Camb. Press, Dec. 5,
95.
No,
my dear; nobody is quite so bad as people say they are.
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PRESSINGS.
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Of ups and downs
our lives are full,
How can a man feel gay?
With mercury
a-going down
And coal the other way.
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NO TRUTH IN IT.
Is it true that Gouter
is laid up with rheumatism?
No; rumor ’tiz.
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In league with the
devil – The editor (if he has one)
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THE OLD QUESTION.
Chicagoite – Boston
seems to have lost all sense of humor.
New Yorkite – Say,
can anybody lose something they never had?
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Capt. Jack Crawford is necessarily the poet lariat of America.
_____ C. Press, Nov. 21,
96.
NO TRUTH IN IT.
While it is
acknowledged that a cow makes good butter, it is also stated that a goat makes
a better one.
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PRESSINGS.
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Not
To Be Taken Too Seriously.
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Turkey, turkey, everywhere,
Turkey done and turkey rare;
Turkey browning on the stove,
Turkey roosting in the grove.
While our turkey is all right,
Europe’s turkey’s full of fight,
Killing, slaying host on host,
Like to see her
get a Roast.
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Undated, but
likely November, 1896
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PRESSINGS. Camb. PPress
_____ Dec. 19, ’96
Serious,
Silly and Sentimental Stuff.
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PRESSINGS.
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REASON OF HIGH ART.
You ladies in the audience
Are prone to
wonder whyly
The girls upon the ballet stage
Do kick so
awful highly.
The reason I can well explain,
In quatrains
or in sonnets;
They kick thus highly so we men
Can see above
your bonnets.
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Undated, but from
April 24, 1897.
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PRESSINGS.
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AT CRESCENT BEACH.
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Lovely Cambridge Girl – I’m going to bathe over there behind the rocks.
Cholly Looker – Aw, I guess I – I will follow suit.
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THE CHILLY HUB.
Herker – Why did Peary’s expedition start out from Boston, I wonder?
Fitt – O. they wished to get acclimated before reaching the Arctics, I
suppose.
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RANK AS MEN.
New Woman Boarder – Ten dollars! But sir, you told me board was eight
dollars for women and ten for men?
Landlord – But, madam, you wear bloomers and smoke cigarettes.
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A GOOD REASON.
Wonderite – Why does the West End always have white mail cars?
Press Man – So no one can get a case of “black-mail” against them.
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ONE OF THOSE HOT
NIGHTS.
Cambridge Belle – Will you stick by me, dear, till death do us part?
Georgie – Yes, love, if the weather is always like it is now.
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BITS.
The main trouble with actors and writers nowadays is , they want to be
professionals before they are amateurs.
Remember that the soft brown hair that you are continually praising
looks better upon your sweetheart’s head than it would in a plate of soup.
A few “donts” for people who have the Klondike fever – Don’t, don’t,
don’t go.
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Undated.
(Possibly circa July, 1897, as a letter printed on the
reverse side resembles one sent to the NYT that month by the same person)
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PRESSINGS.
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A Little Home-Made
Fun.
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An event took place not long since under my (rented) roof which brought
out the following from a valued literary friend:
IRENE CLEVENSHIRE CONE.
Irene, how nice it is of you
To come right down out of the blue,
To ornament this world of grace
And take in love the warmest place.
Irene means peaceful, a delight;
Try to be peaceful, dear, at night!
Be a gay poet like your pa,
Be a good woman like your ma;
And I will send my grandson down
To spark the sweetest girl in town.
– James Bartlett Wiggin.
The “event” referred to was similar to the Cleveland – Marlborough events
which startled the world not do very long ago, and which filled columns of the
Yellow Department Sunday Journals. Our little affair didn’t raise an editorial
in “The Gungawamp Hawkeye,” which, of course, made us feel put out. But that is
the way of the world – and journal. Grover’s and Jook’s may have led ours in
pounds sterling, but when it comes to pounds ad – why our little Hogan’s Alley
girl made them feel small by many penny weights.
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False teeth – Those which won’t stick by you.
The weigh of the world (if you don’t watch it) – 14 ounces to the pound.
Net earnings – Fisherman’s wages.
Opposed to good government – The small boy.
In the twinkling of an eye – Mirth.
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Undated.
Irene Cone was born on Oct. 22, 1897.
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PRESSINGS.
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HALF WAY.
A proposition I’ve to make,
All the
ladies please give heed,
A grievance I have sought to right,
Of which is
mighty need.
Now ladies think it over please,
And this
proposal meet:
If you will shake the theatre hat,
You’ll get
the trolley seat.
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Undated, but
from Nov. 13, 1897
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PRESSINGS.
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The frost is
on the punkin,
An’ the punkin’s on the vine;
The vine is
on the wither,
An' that’s a winter sign.
The chill is
in the city,
An'
the poem’s on the vine;
But I hope
the frost won’t settle
On this little rhyme of mine.
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Undated, but
from Dec. 12, 1898
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PRESSINGS.
By Joe
Cone.
I cannot
imagine what Santa will do
When he comes down the chimney this year;
For the
sights he will see, between you and me,
Will shock the old fellow, I fear.
There are
Helen’s red-ribbed, and Dora’s gay pinks,
And Claribel’s blue polka dots;
And
Lillian’s grays, and Marjory’s bays,
Illumined with spangles and spots.
Now Santa is
modest, and Santa is old,
And has never seen stockings so gay;
So beware,
dainty miss what you leave out for “Kris,”
For he’s apt to be frightened away.
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The yachting
suit is out of date,
The tennis suit the same;
The golfing
clothes and cycle hose
Have lost their hold on fame.
And now the
world impatiently
Awaits some genius cute,
Some master
fine who will design
The auto-mobile suit.
_____
SAYS JOHN.
Says Johnny Bull to Mrs. John,
“My ’eart is troubled sore;
Hi’ll lick
them blarsted Dutchmen blind,
Haltho’ just
now of course Hi find
They are a bloomin’ Boer!”
_____
Some naughty
boys were on the roof,
A man walked just below;
They dropped
a brick upon his foot,
A hard and crushing blow.
And now he
tells his friends ’twas just
A case of missile-toe.
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Camb’ Press, Dec. 19, 1900
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PRESSINGS.
_______
A Sonnet in Blank Verse.
“I never
thought that you and I,
Would part
so soon;
When first
we met, ah, –happy day!
I clung to
you for hours; my teeth
Imbedded in
your golden hair!
But soon they
took us hence; afar,
Unto a costly
chamber, where
They sat us
down, and soon we knew
That we had
only met to part;
To meet to
part, and nothing more;
Alas, alack,
and nothing more!”
Such were
the words of deep despair,
Which young
Alphonso Comb
Addressed to
Angelina Brush.
_____
Undated. Expanded
version, ‘At the Parting’, written on Dec. 13, 1904.
_______
PRESSINGS.
_______
_______
THE HEADSTRONG
BICYCLE GIRL.
She starts, she
moves, she seems to feel
That she can scorch
on any wheel;
She flies, she
swerves, a backward glance –
A home-run in the
ambulance.
_____
Undated.
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PRESSINGS.
_____
A Little Home-Made
Fun.
_____
Undated
_______
PRESSINGS.
_______
WHERE EXTREMES MEET.
Leall – I don’t see any such looking tramps in the
country as the funny papers picture.
Knowall – No, nor anybody else.
_____
Treddler – Going to
buy a wheel this summer?
Pegget – Nope;
going to wait till they are cheaper.
Treddler – But you
said the same thing as long ago as ’93.
Pegget – Yes, but
ain’t I making money every year that I don’t buy one?
Undated.
_____
Undated
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