Judge — May 12, 1906 — page 2: what you’re looking at

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Westen Apventisinc O PUBLISHED WEEKLY / Ar Tue Pancer Bortpixc Fourrm Avenvr axp Nixermextu Sraxet, New Yor. 313 Hartford Building, Onicage, lt. TERMS TO S RI UNITED STATES AND CANADA IN ADVANCE. One copy. one year.orsznumbers= = ee the Cumistatas Juce. UESCRIPTIONS—To al foresga countries in the postal union, $5.50 year. Euwortan satns-acents—/aternational News Company, Bream's building, Chancery Lane, F.C. Lond The contents of JUDGE are protected by conyrgh in both the United States ant Great Britain. Brentano's, Avenue del" Opera, Paris : Saariach's News Exchange, Mains, Germ: Infringement of this cooyright ‘will be prompity and bigorously crosecuted. CONTRIBUTORS must inciose a stamped and self-addressed entrelove with all manuscrtots, otherieise return of the Latter when found unavailaNe cannot be guaranteed. DRAWINGS and alt contribations sent to the Art Deoartment should have the sender's full name and adiress Written plainly on each and every separate sketch. The accompanying foke or descriptive letter-oress should in ébery instarce be witien uoon its indtvidual picture, and NOT uzon a seoarate siiD of paver. insure safe and prompt return of material not accented. Inciosare of stamos to the fel! amount of postage (s also required, 10 1M JUDGE caneot be found at any oews-stand, tbe peblishers will be wader obligations If that fact be promptly reported om postal card or by eter. THE GREATEST LESSON OF THE EARTHQUAKE. JUDGE would point out one further lesson that is shining gloriously above the ruins by the Golden Gate. The stricken city is already ris- ing out of its ashes and taking shape as the city beautiful that is to be. That the determination to rebuild San Francisco may suffer something from the dread of further seismic disturb- ances does not affect the lesson we have in mind. The first and most striking fact following the city’s overthrow was the in- stant recovery of the citizens from panic and the cheerfulness with which they faced the future. The next fact, which reflects all the greater glory on the people, was the decision to stay and rebuild in spite of the menace of the possible repetition of the shocks. The original city was half a cen- tury in building. The new and greater city will be the work of scarcely more than ayear. This shows as nothing else can how complete is the human mastery of the physical framework of our civilization. Not one, but fifty cities would be rebuilt under like conditions. Now, if this remaking of a city can be accomplished with such celerity after an earthquake or a fire, why could not similar feats of transformation be ac- complished without the initiative of disaster? If men, impelled by great calamity, can instantly move with such cheerful courage, and with such speed produce a new and more splendid civic environment, why can they not begin and produce even more splendid results without the push of a catastrophe? For ages, in all our cities, we grope along in the midst of ugly, dispiriting, disease-engendering surroundings, when all the while there lies dormant among us the power of instant rejuvenation. Shall it be necessary to the end of time that calamity alone shall unlock for us the golden door to newness of life and achievement? Now that the body of John Paul Jones is buried, the question that is uppermost in many minds is, Is it the body of John Paul Jones? SECRETARY TAFT PERFORMS A PUBLIC SERVICE. ECRETARY TAFT’S allusion to ‘a graduate of a university who is swayed only by his feelings and has developed into a parlor socialist ” has supplied a term with which to designate a certain class of eruptive re- formers which is at once luminous, decorative and useful. The reforming tribes are developing factional, not to say frictional, differences of so marked a character that some differentiating no- menclature has become a necessity. There is, for instance, the revolutionary reformer who wants to bust up things as they be. Then there is the legislative reformer, whose mission is not so much to reform through legislation as to bust up the legis- latures. There are the saffron reformers, who operate on a chromatic scale for the diversion of the public, and the decimal reformers, whose outgivings can be had for ten cents at all news-stands. Now comes a wealthy, violet-scented bunch who do their reform work with rosebuds in their button-hol These are a class by themselves, and Mr. Taft has done a serv- ice in branding them the “ parlor socialists.” Ihe parlor socialist reforms in an atmosphere of old rose and hyacinths. To him the renewal of the earth is as pleasing a task as the dusting of his wardrobe with sachet- powders. [T IS NOW Dr. Edward VIL, if you please. That Russian “‘ constitootion ” is just a little joke of the czar’s. se FAR we have heard of but forty-seven prophets who foretold the earthquake. tae BERLIN COMPANY quotes prices on water from the River Jordan for christening, baptisms, etc. Reasonable discount on gallon lots. Sorry to hear that the New York transit properties are making Mr. Belmont poor. It may become necessary to pass the hat for Brother Belmont. QE GOOD THING about the San Francisco earthquake is the way it brought the young fellows to the proposing point. Getting so nowa- days that it takes an earthquake to do that. LONDON DISCUSSES THE PROBLEM OF LOVE. DB. EMIL REICH is causing something of a furore in London with his lectures to the women of the élite on the problem of love. The subject is so timely that American women might like to know the conclu- sions of this eminent specialist. Dr. Reich points out some of the curiosi- ties of the grand passion, such as the mat- ing of the dark man with’ the blond lady, the short man with tne amazon, and the solitary youth with the fashionable belle. He declares that the middle ages invented women, and the modern is perfecting the invention. The Greek philosophers en- tertained a very poor opinion of the sex. Only modern man has paid her the tribute of real admiration. The contrasts of the ancient and modern world are set forth in the following simile: “ The ancient Greek life was a legato; ours is a staccato. The Greek life was like an andante of Mozart; ours is like a furious, agitating scherzo.” The inference we draw from the whole drift of the argument is that real love begins when men’s lives cease to be legato and take on a more staccato movement, and that it is at its best when the masculine pace becomes a furious, agitating scherzo. This ap- Pears to us so clear that further comment is unnecessary. A furious, agi- tating scherzo seems to be filling a long-felt want. + THE ONLY authentic account of the earthquake” is announced by 102 publishers. Wot, Looks as if Funston might not care now whether people remember the Bag-Bag River or not. FUNNY that the wickeder the old world grows the more handsomely it acts when a great calamity turns up. eee Me: SHONTS says the canal is booming. If they could only decide now what kind of a canal it is going to be all might yet be well. LOOKS as if La Follette (sometimes called “Laugh a lot”) had the other senators beat a mile. For a maiden effort a three-day speech shows promise. eee REVEREND ADDISON C. BIRD, attacked by two robbers, got out of his buggy, tied the two robbers’ feet together, and rode away after the police. The Reverend Bird is a bird.