Judge — January 6, 1906 — page 2: what you’re looking at

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DRAWINGS and alt contribations sent to the Art Department should have the sender's full name and address Ywritten plainly on each and every separate sketch. The accompanying Joke or descriptive letter-press should tn ébery instance be written upon its indroidual picture, and NOT upon a separate slip of paper. Inclosare of stamps to the fell amount of postage is also reaoired. 10 insure safe and prompt retarn of materlal not accented. A GOOD WORD FOR OUR OWN TIMES. W’'SH-Day, as every housewife knows, is the dirtiest, sloppiest, suds- iest day of the week, and yet the final cause and outcome of wash- day is a line-full of snowy linen flapping merrily in the wind. The epidemic of exposure through which we are passing is nothing more nor less than the dirty business incident to a national wash- day. The view just now in the ascendent in certain quarters, that public life is rotton, al- ways rotten, and that we are getting a mo- mentary glimpse of grafting and jobbery and chicane that are permanent, is abnormal and unreasonably pessimistic. The post of apolo- gist for the times is not a desirable one just now. A cheerful optimism is taken as evi- dence of guilty collusion with the powers of evil. While JUDGE is doing his share in the great clean-up, and speeding his shafts at the army of graft with as deadly aim as he can master, it is nevertheless in the spirit of a de- termined optimism that he fights. Each wash- day attests the wholesome hunger for clean- ness, and the best sign of the times is the very upheaval which many re- gard as our worst symptom. The truth is that men are not perfect, and in the ordinary course of business many things are done—tricks of the trade they are called—which appear to be at once inexcusable and unavoidable. Presently the whole industrial domain is rutted with bad precedents; busi- ness rivalries, great and small, grow apace. Then comes a sort of clear- ance time; the fierce domestic brawl is on, everybody tells on everybody else, and—by and by the wash is on the line, and everybody goes on with a new and comfortable sense of being clean once more. The world is grow- ing better, and this is the best age to date. And herein is the charter of every man who dreams of making the world still better. THE WOMEN AND MR. GROVER CLEVELAND. WE ARE taking a more than ordinary interest in the controversy raised by Mr. Grover Cleveland’s remarks on women’s clubs. The Whole question of woman's place and duty in the world has come to the surface again, and the women are determined to have the right answer prevail. For our part, we are utterly flabbergasted. We thought the question had been settled. Now we've got to go at it again. It is an important subject —the most important now before the public. If we do not know what woman is here for, how do we know she has any right to be here at all? With such a factor as woman unaccounted for, or only partially explained, how can we be sure of anything in the present human situation? To add to the perplexities of the problem, the women are acting very queer. When we say woman's business is to make man a good wife, even the girls laugh. When we say one of her duties is to give us babies, she is mad; and yet, when Mr. Cleveland accuses her of cutting out motherhood, she begins a frantic count to show the good man what a nice lot of babies she has. It we say woman’s place is in the kitchen, cooking a gcod dinner, that makes her madder than.any- thing else; and if we say her chief duty is to brace up and be a man, she doesn’t like that. Now comes an English doctor who says that women no longer weep, no longer read sentimental stories, and no longer like to be kissed. That compli- cates matters dreadfully. If one could only get a line on woman’s main likes, the general drift of her preferences! What is the adorable creature’s real mis- sion on earth? Does she, herself, know? Meanwhile, Mr. Grover C. is getting it good and plenty for saying the club is spoiling her for her chief duty in life, though nobody knows what that duty is. About this time look for reports that the Maine ice<rop is going to the bad. CZAR, it is said, will give the people more liberties soon. erous fellow the czar is getting to be! RUSSIAN soldiers’ raise in pay ought to help some to steady things. From $1.35 a year to $3 a year is a big jump. What a gen- FOUNTAINS in Madrid are to run wine when Alfonso weds, a monster bull-fight is to be pulled off, and the conversion of Princess Ena to the faith of her royal fiancé will be accomplished in a magnificent ceremony. SOME PROPERTIES THE PEOPLE SHOULD KEEP. SINCE President Roosevelt has taken up the subject of the preservation of our great natural wonder-works, it is to be hoped something to the point will be done. California has offered her Big Tree grove and the Yosemite Park to the national government, and the president suggests that New York might make a similar proffer of Niagara Falls and Colorado of the Grand Canyon. The Empire State will probably turn a deaf ear to the suggestion that its famous cataract be handed over to the federal govern- ment, and yet there is wisdom in the suggestion. The time has come when one policy ought to apply to all the big “things cf these United States. Not only the great natural curiosities, but the for- ests, the mines, the surface and under- world inheritance of riches which are an asset of the whole people might be in a better condition to-day if some form of federal oversight had been exercised. The wanton ‘hand of commerce has worked ir- reparable damage to the great timber-lands, and irresponsible private ownership to- day holds sway over all the underground wealth of the country. Surely the time has come when the far-sighted citizen can see what such a policy means to the future of the nation. There is a good English law, whose roots run back to the beginnings of human experience on this planet—that some things besides the waters of the sea and the atmosphere belong to the whole people. In our easy-going day, and with a great con- tinent to forage in, we have acted on the principle that everything belonged to anybody who could get it. The result is that precious little remains to which the people can point and by right of their citizenship say, * That be- longs to us.” +4 4 CONCERT of wind-instruments,” announces a scare-head. Doesn’t say which, legislature, congress, or what. Maybe refers to the com- ing Hague peace-conference. GPAIN heeds German protest; Castro bows to France; Abdul Hamid bows to the powers; czar bows to demands of the people. What a bow-wowing time we are having ! WHY is Mr. Bourke Cockran, Tammany sachem, liked? Hear Mr. Bonynge in congress: “ We heard him with admiration and delight, and although realizing an absence of facts, we readily forgave him. We recognize that an orator is not to be hampered by such obstacles as facts; that to an orator, like a poet, must be permitted the license to exercise his imagination without limit.”” +6 QOING Home to Sue for a Divorce}* says a newspaper head-line. What a chance for the popular-song parodists! We can hardly resist taking a try at it ourself: “* Wake me early, mother dear, for I’m to be a divorcee; Lam going home to sue my spouse—I’m going to start to-day ’’—— But that’s enough for now.