Peck's Sunshine: Being a Collection of Articles Written for Peck's Sun,; Milwaukee, Wis. - 1882Peck, George W. (George Wilbur)
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Peck's Sunshine: Being a Collection of Articles Written for Peck's Sun,; Milwaukee, Wis. - 1882
Peck, George W. (George Wilbur)
American wit and humor
Now, when the feeling first comes on, and he shuts his eyes and imagines
he sees limburg cheese, if the victim would go and buy a slice and go
away out in the country, by the fertilizer factory, he could eat his
cheese and no one but the workmen in the fertilizer factory could
complain. That is what ought to be done when a man is addicted to
cheese.
But this chief of police has stood up in the face of public opinion,
eaten limburg cheese with brazen effrontery that would do credit to a
lawyer, and has gone into a public conveyance, breathing pestilence and
cheese. There is no law on our statute books that is adequate to punish
a man who will thus trample upon the usages of society.
However, the conviction of Kennedy of eating limburg cheese will be the
means of acquitting him of the other charge, that of conversing with a
lewd woman. We doubt if there is a lewd woman, though she be terribly
lewd, who would allow a man to come within several blocks of her who had
been eating that deceased cheese.
If we were in Kennedy's place we would admit the cheese, and then bring
ten thousand women to swear whether they would remain in the same room
with a man who had been eating that cheese. There are men who _do_
eat cheese, bad men, the wicked classes, who go into the presence of
females, but that is one thing which causes so many suicides among the
poor fallen girls. When we hear that another naughty but nice looking
girl has been filling her skin full of paregoric and is standing off
a doctor with a stomach pump, we instinctively feel as though some man
with a smell of cheese about his garments had been paying attention to
her, and she had become desperate.
If they discharge the chief on that cheese testimony it will be a lesson
to all men hereafter.
TERRIBLE TIME ON THE CARS.
There is something about the average Chicago young man that gives
him away, and gives away anybody that gets in with him. He is full of
practical jokes, and is a bad egg on general principles.
Last week Mr. Eppenetus Hoyt, of Fond du Lac, went to Chicago on a
visit. He is a pious gentleman, whose candor would carry conviction
to the mind of the seeker after righteousness, and his presence at the
prayer meeting, at the sociable or the horse-race, is an evidence that
everything will be conducted on the square.
Mr. Hoyt knew a young man named Johnny Darling, who was attending
Rush Medical College, and through him was permitted to visit the
dissecting-room, and gaze upon the missionary work being done there. Mr.
Hoyt was introduced to a number of the wicked young men who were carving
the late lamented, and after he got accustomed to the climate he rather
enjoyed the performance.
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