Judge — May 8, 1897 — page 2: what you’re looking at

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uae PUBLISHED ONCE A WEEK. TERMS TO SUBSCRIBERS. UNITED STATES AND CANADA IN ADVANCE. ‘One copy, one year. or s2 numbers - $5.00 ‘One copy, six months, or 26 numbers - 2.56 ‘One copy, for thirteen weexs = = 1.35 Incliding the Cumtstmas Junge. FOREIGN SUBSCRIPTIONS —To alt Soreign countries im the postal union, $0.00 ‘a year, THE JUDGE PUBLISHING COMPANY (Junce BUILDING), Corner Fifth Avenue and Sixteenth Street. New York. . 2" Circulation larger than any ot r cartoon weekly im the world. 8 NOTICE TO PUBLISHERS.—The contents of Juoae are procected by copy- eogt in both the United States and Great Britain. Infringement of this copyright will be promptly and vigorously prosecuted. A MISSION of the JUDGE is to welcome the coming, speed the parting jest. Me. PINGREE as both governor and mayor would have been too many in the hill, MBs: LEASE registers herself at hotels as a resident of New York city. Aha! Another annex, A NEW BATTLE-SHIP is said to be safe, rapid, and complete in every respect. Accidents will happen. FINE THING for Mr, Bry- an to advocate the pur- chase of Monticello, but the owner of it doesn’t wanto- velo. E BEG to suggest to some other nations that, while the new assistant secretary of the navy has all his teeth in, he won't bite. eee THE EDITOR of the Troy Press speaks of the be- deviled mysteries of poker.” We know just how the man feels, but he may have better luck next time. cee IS HEAV- NN?" asks the Al- bany Argus. The heaven of this earth is a theory rather than a condition, and it is always going to occur next year. Ang. HARDCASE: Pere Persiamons—"' No; Any. HARDCASE:- A FREE-SILVER CLUB of Missouri tenders thanks to Ben Tillman “with uncovered heads" Perhaps this is extra reverence, and then again it may the club’s method of passing things through their hats. F YOU WANT a divorce it will be necessary for you to live in South Dakota a year, instead of three months as heretofore. Thus are hearts broken and purses emptied that South Dakota may have a perpetual holiday. SENATOR GUY of the New York legislature presents a bill to prevent bargain-day advertising. It is becoming more patent every day that the merchants of this state do not know how to take care of their own business, NEW LAW in South Carolina obliges washerwomen to pay a license tax of fifty cents, Statesmanship in several states just at present is the art of squeezing blood out of stone and conferring nothing whatever in return OROSIS recently discussed the question, “Have we an American literature, or is our literature merely a reflection of foreign influence?” We are inclined to think so, ourselves; but a more important matter is that these large questions are making Sorosis wrinkled and prematurely old. SELF-DEFENSE, Hello, Pete! I see yo" is practicin’ de noble art ob self-defense.” 's practicin® runnin’.”” I know ; but dat’s de on'y way I ebah see yo’ defend yo'saif.” A COMING MAN. R. BAILEY of Texas, the leader of the Democrats in the house, who is totally opposed to the dress-suit, undoubtedly has a desire to be a great Democratic idol; He will presently begin to wear patched breeches and untanned shoes, and go around reflectively chewing a straw. THE IRON-CLAD WOMAN. HEY TELL of a man in Wisconsin who lost a bet the penalty of whic was to get up and build the fire in the morning. The wife cruelly insisted that he should fulfill his obligation, and now he is dead. A com- promise would probably have saved his life; but no! the woman, like the most of her sex, is an uncompromising radical. A DISCIPLE OF THE CONTRARIES. THE PROSPECT for woman-suffrage is brighter than ever before. Miss Couzins has always been with “the opposition,” and it is natural that she should put up her lands against the inevitable, And she is such an earnest woman that when women begin to vote the country through she will take the platform against that consummation. WOMEN AS SOLDIERS. T IS A FACT that a new law of Colorado permits women to join the national guard and go to war. Everything follows citizenship and the right to vote, We may look ahead to the time when women will be liable to draft in cases of national or state emergency. It is a logical result of the larger liberty in behalf of which so many women are cackling. And in order to inure themselves to the new dispensation it will be necessary for the sex to learn how to sing bass and chew tobacco, CHURCH EXER- CISING. BisHor SEYMOUR of the diocese of Illinois ad- vocates dancing for church- members. The. proposition as we get it is too vague. Dancing is exercise in move- ment and grace, and it doesn’t necessarily follow that high kicking is beneficial or legiti- mate because there is more exercise in it than in the or- dinary minuet or the later waltz, What, moreover, of the Virginia reel, which per- mits the rank shuffle and double-shuffle and the kick- ing up behind? And what of the skirt-dance, which has been inadvertently permitted at some church entertain- ments? It is good to. see this progress, but it is neces- sary to draw a few lines. A FOREIGN MYSTERY. THE STORY that the czar is in love with a prima-donna, and that his mother approves of his infatuation out of contempt for the stern morality of the czarina, is a little too queer to be wholly believed. It hints at cousinships that are more than usually hateful one to another, and that run through all the royal families; but-these things are not sufficiently open to the public to command newspaper publication that is at all reliable, But, on the other hand, the prima-donna has advertising enough in the fact that she is going to marry a rich man who is now at work on his divorce. She really doesn’t need the czar or the dowager or the reigning czarina to increase and fatten her notoriety, VICTORY FOR WHOM? THEY ARE TALKING of radical changes in politics in municipal elections. They say there is a great reaction against McKinley. Probably the election of Carter H. Harrison in Chicago will have a tre- mendous effect on the eastern question, to say nothing of our national politics; but which of the two Democratic parties wins the victories? In 0 it is a free-silver, socialistic triumph; and in one or two of the other places we suppose the gold Democrats have their claims. But the two parties will never be able to pool their issues. They are as wide apart as the two poles. They can claim nothing in common; and the victories are so far in the air that they belong to no organization whatever. comicbooks.com