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THE ULTIMATUM.
"You can decorate your office with a thousand gilded
signs,
And have upholstered furniture in quaint antique
designs;
Have the latest patent telephone where you can yell
'HelioP
But, said she, ;I just made up my mind that typewriter
must go."
' Youcan stay down at the office,as you have done,after
hoursf
And,if you are partial to bouquets,I'll furnish you with
fiowers.
You can spring the old club story when you come home
late, you know.
But,remember,I've made up my mind that typewriter
must go."
"You can let your book-keepers layoff and see a game
of ball;
The office-boy can leave at noon or not show up at all.
1 here whatis this upon your coat? It isn't mine
I know.
I think I know a thing or two—that typewriter shall go."
JIf Jg JS JH
A CASUAL OBSERVATION.
" nuffin'hyar but vanity
An'riches an'insanity
i ,
De dollah seems to be de people's god,
Dai^s a heap too many'Scariots
A ridin'roun'in chariots.
While de po'man am a carryin'de hod.
Bar's too much haste an'hurryin',
^An'too much wealth at buryin',
An dis hyarTlng am gettin'worse an'worse.
Hit takes all ob de rakin's,
De scrimpin's an'de scrapin's.
To liquidate the'spenses ob de hearse.
Bar's heaps ob care and worry;
Ebberybody's in a hurry.
An'de few am growin'richer ebbery day.
But de most ob us must shovel
For de children in de hovel.
An'silently await de judgment day."