Judge — October 14, 1905 — page 4: what you’re looking at

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DRAWINGS and all contribations sent to the Art Department should have the sender's full name and address written plainly on each and every sevarate sketch. The accompanying Joke oF descriptive letter-press should in every instance be written upon its indtoidual picture, and NOT upon a separate slip of paper. Inciosure of stamps to the full amount of postage is also reguined. 19 tnsare safe and prompt retarn of material not accepted. HOTELS, CLUBS, AND SERVANTGALISM. LL SORTS of theories are out to account for the ever-increasing favor of hotel and club life with us moderns. People who take to the public hostelry are the people who can afford to live in private homes if they want to. That they flock to the towering caravansary and the public table, or the semi-public apartment-house, shows that they must prefer it to life on the individual plan and under the privacy of family control. Only they who must, it seems, keep to the old home ways. One says woman has tired of house- work and has no heart for domestic manage- ment; but we venture to say it is the woman who clings to the home idea longest and the man who would abandon it first. Another says the difficulty of getting good house- servants is driving the people into the hotels. There is some truth in both statements, but the principal compelling cause of the rapid development of hotel life is probably to be found in man’s gregariousness—his desire to herd with his kind and be an intimate part of the stream where it teems with the most varied and spectacular life. Ne- cessity holds this racial impulse in check, but when means are ample it controls without hinderance. The growing difficulties and cost of living on the individual plan, the crankiness and inferiority of servants, the eco- nomic waste, etc., only help on the tendency to flock together. Servant- galism is undoubtedly weaning many people from the home. The divinity of the kitchen is sometimes an exasperating goddess, and her rites are often a weariness to the flesh, In the face of these obstacles it is such a blessing to turn over all the worries of housekeeping to mine host and succumb to the luxury of pressing the button and letting him do the rest. Since the drift is so strong toward this quasi-communal life, it is pleasant to know that America has the best hotels and the most perfect clubs in the world, and nothing else gives such a sure mark of thrift and up-to- dateness to a city. a UNCLE SAM AND JOHN BULL SWAP BUGS. THE OLD WORLD has been booming along prosperously of late, and the nations have been rubbing elbows and hobnobbing and getting so amiable that an atmosphere of peace and international sociability seems to envelop us like the haze of an Indian summer. JUDGE is such a lover of peace that the posture of affairs at this date fills him with the keenest sat- isfaction. Neighbors are never really neighborly until they begin to bor- row little household articles of each other, such as a pinch of tea to eke out ‘a supper, or a half-cake of soap to carry over wash-day. Likewise, nations are not truly at peace until formal diplomatic politeness gives way to neigh- borly give-and-take. JUDGE notes with pleasure, therefore, as the pledge of an assured neighborliness, that John Bull and Uncle Sam have lately been doing each other little services on this order. Uncle Sam, for instance, is worried by the depredations of the brown-tail moth. John Bull has a para- site which is death to the brown-tail moth. On the other hand we have some parasites which make it mighty interesting for certain pests that bother John Bull’s vegetables and crops. So Uncle Sam and John have talked it over and arranged to swap bugs. These are the little civilities that cement friendship. John, meanwhile, has not been slow to hitch up with the little giant of the Orient, the Jap, and the new treaty, formi- dable as it may look, seems to assure peace in that quarter for the next ten years. Since the peace conference everybody seems to have a better opin- jon of everybody else than ever before. The press of the several countries is filled with laudatory articles about conditions and people elsewhere, and a sort of world love-feast is here. And as token and proof of the new cur- rents of amiability between peoples, there is the lovable and neighborly act before mentioned, the true reciprocity of good feeling—Uncle Sam and John Bull are swapping bugs. LET PROSPERITY prosper—a pretty good slogan for the next cam- paign, NORWAY is likely to be a republic after all, and have fun electing pres- idents and things same as we do. AND LIPTON, Tom Lipton, Sir Tom of London, will try again to “lift” the cup, report says. Plenty of fun in the old world yet. UEER that along with the complaint of race suicide goes the cry in all our big cities that there are not enough school-houses for the armies of youngsters. . OLD: frayed, worn-out hearts removed and nice young monkey-hearts put in their places is the latest encouraging word from medical sci- The doctors would make monkeys of us, eh? OBED HUSSEY’S TITLE TO FAME, A NEW INSTALLMENT of greatness is to be niched in the New York H. ence. Jali of Fame this month, and among the candidates for corridor re- nown is Cyrus Hall McCormick, who is said to have invented the reaping- machine, The people whose great ambition in life is to set history right have come to the front with another claimant for the reaping-machine hon- ors, and the contest is not without interest. According-to the history- righters, Obed Hussey should be in the niche which is claimed for McCormick. One Glad- stone invented a reaper in England in 1806 (three years before McCormick was born), but it wasn’t successful. Robert McCormick, Cyrus’s father, invented another failure. It was Obed Hussey, a New England Yankee, who, in 1833, worked out a reaper that would reap, and which has since been the model for all manufacturers. This is the claim made for Hussey. Posthumous renown has had such a way of straying off to the undeserv- ing that it is to be hoped this matter will be threshed out fully. Whoever invented the reaping-machine ought to have the credit, and it is a shame to let the name of Obed Hussey perish from the roster of fame if there is anything that entitles it to stay there. As we understand it, Mr. McCormick invented a pretty fair machine. It had two wheels and sagged behind. Its reaping-hook was straight and reciprocated longitudinally. The raking attachment was simple, and consisted of the hired man, who followed the machine with a rake. Hussey’s machine was different. Its central feature was a reciprocating, saw-toothed cutter sliding within double guard-fingers. This arrangement made cutting the logical and necessary outcome. There was no getting away from it. This is the machine that, first and last, has amputated more feet than a medical college. The honor of this achievement is positive, unforgettable; and if it belongs to the New England Yankee, then by all means let Obed Hussey and his reaper go into the Hall of Fame and clatter merrily down the cor- ridors of time. ‘THE CONSUMER has been getting his coal too cheap,” explains President Robbins of the Pittsburg coal company. Sounds a little like something we heard once before from a coal president. BV THE recent rulings of the courts, the market value of a kiss ranges from ten dollars in New York to thirty-five dollars in Missouri. Why the western kiss rules high is one of the unsolved problems. ee SINCE the jokesmiths discovered to the world and to J. D. Rockefeller himself that he is a jolly good fellow, his old austerity has changed to something like amiability. On the other hand, the tribute from his fellow- citizens of Cleveland a few weeks later indicates that the tide of abuse is on the wane. This is in the spirit of JUDGE’S cartoon of some months ago, when it stood almost alone in calling attention to the ridiculousness of the campaign of mudslinging against the Standard-oil millionaire. comicbooks.com