Judge — September 9, 1905 — page 2: what you’re looking at

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DRAWINGS and all contribations sent to the Art Department should have the sender's descriptive letter-press should in ébery instance be woritien upon its indtotdaal picture, and NOT upon a separate slip of paper. prompt insure safe and return of material not accepted. LITTLE KINGS AND THE BIG, BIG WORLD. SINCE Norway has about decided to quit “ kinging it” and form a re- Public, it is a pity we Americans do not show more sympathy and enthusiasm toward the Northmen in their present trying ordeal. Time was when a break from the ranks of monarchy would have been _ received with vociferous shouts of approval and welcome on’ this side the Atlantic. On the contrary, we of to-day see this sister nation on the anxious bench anu appear to be totally lacking in the apos- tolic zeal that would help her forward to a full conversion to republican principles. It might be interesting to inquire why we have come to such a friendly and almost approving atti- tude toward the thrones of the old world. Perhaps our traveled cosmopolites have indoc- trinated us with the belief that life for the most of us is about the same whether we are under a king or a president. At all events, it is amazing how the monarchical system sur- vives. Weak though the czar may be, he is yet the dominant force of his great empire, and all Europe, Asia, Africa, and parts of our west- ern hemisphere still own the sway of his maj- esty a king. About fifteen-sixteenths of the population of the globe is still under the rule of something over a ton of king—say a gross ton of two thousand two hundred and forty pounds. One century and a quarter from the great Washington, and some twenty-odd hundred weight of flesh 4 blood dubbed kings are sitting in royal state and bossing upward of 1,500,000,000 folks, som* of whom are fairly intelligent! ‘O BRE’R CASTRO is really buying guns and rigging up a little army and making faces at your Uncle Samuel. Does he want to be sat on by a certain big man now visiting in the Philippines? eee WE HAVE DUG over twenty-five thousand cubic yards of the Panama canal the first year and there are only some two millions more to be digged, and yet there are those who are saying the job will never be finished. A REFORM SENT BY MAIL, N A WORLD where reforms arrive with halting gait and much bluster and cracking of the lash it is a pleasure to record the introduction of one by a method as silent ard unobtrusive as the falling of the dew upon the mown hay. There is temperance, for example. What a plodding, up-hill time of it the promoters of this reform have had. The very word calls up a mighty historic panorama of eloquent talkers exhibiting by word and gesture to spell-bound audiences the horrors of drink and the beauty of sobriety. Then what legislative tur- moil has accompanied the effort to sober up the world, And altogether, how far short of accomplishment is the great work. In due time the rural- free-delivery carrier, by contract with Uncle Samuel, throws his sacks of mail in the old covered wagon and jogs down the winding lanes distributing letters and papers to the country-side, and lo! the trick is done. Temper- ance arrives via r. f. d., since the men given totippling no longer have to go to town to get the mail. Having* no longer any need to go to the post-office, they have nothing to call them within the lure of the village bar, and they are net sharp enough to invent an excuse that will appear reasonable to the madam. Wherefore they sit by their firesides, or on their cool yerandas at eventide, and read and read and read, ; name and address ‘written plainly on each and every separate shehb. The accompanying joke or of stamps to the fall amount of postage 1s also required. to yia LONDON we learn that Mr. Roosevelt wears a four-dollar suit. May be true, but our money is up the other way. eee YALE rises to explain, all too tardily, it seems, that the college received no tainted money from Mr. J.D. It was a check. [NGRATITUDE, thou marble-hearted fiend! The book-blessed towns are beginning to return their Carnegie libraries to the giver. eee GBRALTAR is crumbling to pieces! Hoiw is this stupendous misfor- tune going to affect American advertising in certain of its branches? WOMAN CROWDING MAN OFF THE EARTH? CCORDING to the census figures, as interpreted by the daily press, woman, lovely woman, is pushing man, poor man, off the earth. Not all at-once, not with any spectacular eagerness or haste, but slowly, quietly, with such deceptive pressure that no man individually is alarmed or thinks Ais turn will come next. Nevertheless, woman in her might is moving on like a relentless force of nature, crowding her way into all sorts of employ- ments and dispossessing male persons as the glacier sweeps the pebbles in its path. The statement is that in 1890 fourteen out of every hundred females over ten years of age had gone to work. To-day eighteen out of every hundred are at work, while in New York twenty-three, and in Massachu- setts twenty-eight out of every hundred are employed in factories, shops, and over two hundred other occupations. The New York Sun's head-line summary on this showing is “ Crowding him out.” The World puts it, “Women driving men to leisure,” and Su- perintendent Bodine of Chicago originates the more panicky prophecy, “* We are drift- ing to the age of the eternal feminine, when man will be a back number.” With all deference to our sapient contem- poraries we venture to say this kind of talk is rot and entirely misses the true inwardness of this remarkable emergence of woman into the world of business. Our instructors fail to see that the wives and the daughters have been forced by a miserable economic necessity to take hold and help the men to earn the family living. And, what is more inexcusable, they miss the fine heroism of the women who are going to work in order to relieve the men of the burden of their support, or to save homes tottering under a load of debt. In any event, the facts are not pleasant to contem- plate. The right of women to work is unquestioned. The opportunity for the moment may look like a new emancipation to the over-sanguine sisterhood, but in the end, when nature totals the results, racial impover- ishment and exhaustion will loom large in the account. GHEBOYGAN, Wisconsin, to the front! A baby in that town is a trol- ley-ticket entitling bearer to a free ride over the whole system. R. PARKER of Esopus is said to be engineering some sort of a Jerome boom. Naturally the Esopian end of the affair has been kept very quiet. IT" IS EXPLAINED that Secretary Taft had to use great tact and deli- cacy in declining the sultan of Sulu’s offer to make Miss Alice his sev- enth wife. Obviously, his highness is a very sensitive soul. eee I's A PITY those walter-girls in convention assembled flung bars of soap at each other in the heat of debate. Little incidents like that only hin- der the grand cause of woman-suffrage and make us tremble at the pros- pect of a mop-handle upsetting the dignity of the senate in that day when madam goes to congress. comicbooks.com