Judge — November 24, 1906 — page 2: what you’re looking at

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‘One copy, one y (One copy, sb 2 FORE Runorean satns-acents—lnternational News Company, Bream's building, Ci The contents of FUDGE are protected by copyright in both the United States and Great Britain. os ISS oO 2214 Grammnor, ford Building, Chicago, lt, RS: Avance. Ore SF. far Sirveen seats Including the Cunistwas Joocx. RIPTIONS—To all forexgn countries in the postal union, $6.50.@ year. wcery Lane, EC, London : Brentano's, avenue de" Opera, Paris Saurback's News Exchange, Mains, Germany, Infringement of this conyright will be promptly and digorously prosecuted. CONTRIBUTORS must inctose a stamped and self-addressed entrelove with all manascricts, othePteise re'arn of the Latter when found unavailable cannot be guaranteed. DRAWINGS and alt contributions sent to the Art Devartment should have the sender's full name and actress Written plainly on each and every separate sketch. The accompanying Joke or descriptive letier-press should in every instance be written upon tts indtoidual picture, and NOT upon a seoarate slip of pazer. Inciosure of stamps to the full amount of postage (s also required, to insure safe and promot return of material not accepted. 11 JUDGE cannot be found at any eews-stand, the publishers will be ender obligations if that tact be promptly reported os postal-card or by letter. LET US MAKE IT A THANKFUL THANKSGIVING. THANKSGIVING has come to be a time for the inventory not so much of our blessings as of our ills, our grievances, our hopes deferred. Our ministers, our college-presidents and our bigbrows tell us on that day wherein we have sinned and what we must do to find repentance. JUDGE suggests that this year it may havea help- ful quality for our spirits if we shift the emphasis back in the old-fashioned way to our blessings. We have had a trying year, and the spirit of the people is more or less irritated and perplexed. Neverthe- less, in spite of an occasional earthquake jar and tidal jolt, the solar system has. been running with unusual poise and bal- ance during the past year. As if to make amends for our seismic reverses, the old earth has been sane and normal in all her seasons. Under beneficent winds and rains and suns the fields on all the four sides of the globe have prospered. Ne fam- ine-spots mar the world-wide harvest of plenty. The war-clouds have rolled away and peace is as nearly universal as the world has ever known it. In our own land the plunderbund has rav- ished us, and yet we are prosperous. The people are bad and the politicians worse, and yet we are happy and have done some notable things in the way of improvement. In fact, may it not be, in spite of all our grumbling discontent, that we have more cause to be thankful at this hour than at any previous time in all history? If there is one lesson more than another that our monitors should urge upon the national conscience at this Thanks- giving time it is this: Let our reforms be without abuse. The world is to go on to something better year by year, but the forces that push us toward the millennium must be forces of light, of sympathy, of kindness, and not of bitterness and hatred. was ILL the Hon. Joseph Cannon and Commissioner Bingham please take notice that one Metz of New York, in a spurt of indignation, exclaims, By jingo! V'll fire ’em.”” What chaste restraint! ON THE INCREASE OF KOLONIALMUEDIGKEIT. HE GERMANS have a new word. It is “ Kolonialmuedigkeit.” Eng- lished, this formidable fulmination means“ that tired feeling about the colonies.” We are more or less familiar with “ that tired feeling.” It al- most amounts to a national fault with us. No man, no cause, no party, can survive its assaults. Assault is too positive, too energetic, a word. An ebbing tide figuratively describes it better, for when the American people get tired of anything or anybody they simply run away from it and forget it utterly. There is something comical as well as tragic in the suddenness and completeness of these abdications of public interest and enthusiasm. To-day we are at white heat over insurance scandals; to-morrow these are forgot-in a flood of excitement about packing-house crimes, In an hour these all give place to a railroad-rebate furore. Mr. Bryan leaves these shores and nobody knows or cares. He comes home and finds the nation on fire with welcoming enthu- siasm. A month later his name scarcely appears, but in its stead another flaming name yellows the firmament. An- other week and this, too, has passed. The worst of it is, a settled state of grumblement is the concomitant of these spurious enthusiasms. THE enemies of the trusts increase. Hetty Green, financier, is ag’in ’em. eee G&T ready now for the silly season in politics. Open time on all sorts of foolish things for about a year. eee SO MR. HEARST is going abroad. Probably a Madison Square Garden reception may be looked for in due time. eee SOUNDS kind o” Christmasy—besides, it sounds mighty good—to hear how workingmen’s wages are going up all over the country. 'HE Hon. Grover Cleveland keeps right on answering the great ques tion, “* What shall we do with ex-Presidents?” He goes fishing. THE sky-scraper farm is here—or, rather, its out in Missouri. At bot- tom it is shale; on top of that is coal. Next comes a clover-field, and then an orchard. A MILWAUKEE PROMOTER OF MARRIAGE. ° Louis AUER of Milwaukee, to our mind, is the most original innovator before the public. Mr. Auer, some time since, erected a building which speedily became known as the “Baby Flat.”” The floors of this building were deadened, and various devices calculated to promote the success of family life were installed. When the building was ready the announce- ment went forth that babies were welcome, and that a month’s rent free would go as a prize for every one born in the house. Following up this enterprise, Mr. Auer has now begun the largest apartment house in the city, to be built in two wings, with a court between. One-half will be devoted to bachelor maids and the other to bache> lors. He announces that to every couple occupying apartments in the building who marry he will give a month’s rent free. Thus we see architecture and matrimony. made easy—become, as it were, the two wings of a great philanthropy. We can think of nothing more romantic and at the same time more effective in promoting marriage than the thought that must come alike to lonely maids and loving swains as they gaze at each other’across the court that divides the wings of this lovely building, ‘If we get married we get a whole month of this free.” eee THE oyster trust is announced. Next in order will be a lobster trust. eee All the indications (CONGRESSMEN to have a bath, says a headline. seem to be for a general clean-up in politics. cee THE last election-bet to be paid was\in the form of a crow dinner. The crow was stuffed with sawdust dnd red pepper. A quart of vinegar filled with hops and cayenne pepper was a delicacy on the side. THE last widow of a Revolutionary soldier is dead one hundred and twenty-three years after the close of that little unpleasantness. That puts the approximate date for the final ending of the Civil War at about the year 2000, ‘ALK about giving the other fellow a bite of the apple! Suppose—just suppose—Brother Hearst should get a recount and be let into the New York mayoralty about six months before the end of the term! Wouldn’t that jar the great anti-plunderbundist? comicbooks.com