Judge — October 28, 1905 — page 2: what you’re looking at

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The accompanying and NOT upon a separate slip of paver, Inctosure of stamps to the full amount of postage (3 also required, 10 descriptive letterpress should in ébery instance be written upon tts indtoidual picture, insure safe and promot retarn of material not accepted. WHAT GOOD TIMES THEY HAVE IN KANSAS! INCE early in September we have been thrilling weekly over the good times they have in Kansas. Ed Howe's Atchison Glotv is responsible for our hebdomadal exhilaration, and the annual corn carnival has been inspiring Howe. Every time we have read the Globe we have started to write something about this grand autumnal festival in the great, care-free, Joyous and prospering farm state. But something would intervene and the afflatus would pass. Then along would come Howe and the Globe and off we'd go again. The Atchison carnival oc- curred September 13-14, but its glory is shining still, like the mellow after glow of a gorgeous sunset, in the Globe Pages, That’s the wonder and the joy of life in Kansas. In the effete east a good time is good for that day and date only; but the Kansas folks take a big, simple, joyous event and spread it out in sweet anticipation and fond remem- brance over an entire season. Atchison arrayed herself in corn, and we believe Howe when he says the result was a masterpiece. Every house bore its crown of shimmering green and gold, the work of men and maids joined in happy unison. The streets were embowered in corn; corn windmills flut- tered in mid-air; an ear of corn fifty feet tall towered overhead; men walked with canes of corn; a mill-wheel revolved under a flowing river of corn. In the midst of it all flower processions moved back and forth. The girls were at their loveliest, and the happy throngs kept up a perpetual bom- bardment with the golden grain, while the air was filled with the rich per- fume of maize. The people danced in the streets until far into the night, and lovers grew tender, and beauty and delight held sway under the rule of King Corn. Proud Atchison! Happy Kansas! Howe delightful! eee SECRETARY TAFT says Panama is healthy. Anything Secretary Taft says has weight with us. MR. RAFFLES EXPOSES WALL STREET. 'HE ‘‘ mysterious Mr. Raffles,”’ with his little booby purse of a few pal- try dollars for his chance identifiers, excited only amused interest as he went on his advertising peregrinations up and down Gotham. The East Side, Union Square and the Circle were only mildly stimulated by the trifling prize. One day his exploiters announced that he would enter the Wall-Street financial district. Then there was a different story. The famous money arena, where millions are the pawns in the game, was jammed at an early hour, and the scramble for Mr. Raffles’s coin came near resulting in panic and disaster. The incident is luminous. Wall Street has enjoyed some renown as the hunting-place for big game. Yet Wall Street exhibits a surprising hunger for little game as well. The bulls and bears hotfoot it for a big copper cent just the same as they do for a double gold eagle. What- ever rolls along, they go for it. This glimpse of the Wall-Street character is something of a shock to the outside world. With all its faults the Midas kingdom was credited with a royal largeness of aims and operations. Its ‘sins were mountainous, but they were majes- tic, too. Its meanness was gigantic, but it had a certain rugged grandeur that partially atoned for it. But now it sheds this glory, and we see the street in a beggarly row over dimes and pennies. Where ‘once the people saw a renowned and splendid thoroughfare, dedicated to high finance, it is to be feared they will now see only an alley where craps is the game. Joke of THE football slugger is still under promise to President Roosevelt to be gentle and good. ACTRESS sues for $5,000 damage done to a dimple. The jury’s ap- praisal will be awaited with widespread interest. That lowa clergyman who calmly dealt destruction to a mouse which ran up his trousers-leg in the midst of a sermon has become a hero to the women of his congregation. “THERE is one good thing about a bad thing—it does its own booming. And there is one bad thing about a good thing—you always have to be taking up a collection to help it along. eee I" HAS been weeks since Hohokus rose up en masse and loudly protested that it was being crowded off the map by the Erie—and yet not a poem has been written about it. What’s getting the matter with the poets? ‘THE BRITISH MARK TWAIN VISITS AMERICA. ‘THE VISIT to this country of Mr. Jerome K. Jerome, sometimes called the English Mark Twain, will afford an unusual opportunity for com- parisons between American and British humor. Like the gulf-stream, the current of humor hitherto has run from the new country to the old. From Artemus Ward down, American fun-makers have journeyed to the land of Mr. Punch, but the visit of a professional British funnyman to these shores has been a rare occurrence. The author of the “Idle Thoughts of an Idle Fellow” and “Three Men in a Boat” will meet with a warm welcome here. The humor of those sketches has the smack of the genuine Amer- ican brand, and readers here enjoyed them just as heartily as readers abroad. So far Mr. Jerome's books help out his own claim that real humor will go anywhere, regardless of the place of its nativity. In fact, we some- times wonder if the humor on the two shores of the Atlantic is not too much alike, too in- terchangeable, and therefore too easily ac quired at the slight cost of a snip of the ever- faithful editorial shears. Our neighbor, the New York Sua, for example, very rarely hon- ors JUDGE by printing his name upon its pages; but it is a frequent expe- rience of JUDGE to surprise a recreant wanderer from his pages beaming in the Sun's columns and shamefacedly.wearing such tags as London Tit- bits, Answers, Pick-Me-Up, and many others. If Mr. Jerome is as funny as he used to be he will go far toward ending the stale American joke on the Britisher’s lack of humor. ae NOW, if Mr. Cleveland would suggest a woman’s club to combat wo- men’s clubs all might yet be well with him. THERE are sixty vacancies in that New York Hall of Fame yet and forty- five years to fill them. Now let us all get busy. STAND PAT for protection, not for the particular schedule, is the Massa- chusetts slogan. Every note a keynote nowadays. BOSTON WOMEN have declared the peek-a-boo shirt-waists and all the other open-work effects must go. That’s all right. Winter is almost here, any way. eens He used to Since he R. ROCKEFELLER’S humor improves steadily of late. feel like a sponge, he says. Then he was on the make. has commenced to hand out he says he feels like a pump. comicbooks.com