Judge — March 9, 1907 — page 2: what you’re looking at

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PUBLISHED WEEKLY Fountu Avx., New Youn. Caste Appugss,“Jupcarn.” Tri Wasreen Apvexrisixc Orr UNITED STATES AND CANADA IN ADV ‘One copy, one year, of ¢2 numbers ‘ Eonornan saves-acents—Jatermational News Company, Bream's building, Chancery Lane, F. The contents of FUDGE are protected by conyright in both the United States and Great Britain. CONTRIBUTORS mst inciose a stamped and self-asinessed entveiove with all manuscrivts, otherivise return of the Lat DRAWINGS ant descrivtive letler-press sitouid in every inst. tnsure safe and promot return of material not accepted. MW JUDGE cannot be found st any news-stat CHRISTIAN-SCIENCE TREATMENT OF THE WEATHER. HE WORLD is indebted to the secretary of the Kansas Board of Agri- culture for an idea that is literally worth millions. It might be termed Christian science as applied to the weather, or the effects of auto-sugges- tion on unruly climates. For instance, it is claimed that if Kansans would cease to think cyclones and blizzards the Kansas blizzards and cyclones would be enormously mitigated in severity. We do not understand the Kansan to say that a bad climate can be uprooted and done away with entirely by auto-suggestion. But the inference is plain that in some sense an accommodation takes place, so that either the auto-suggester does not mind the cy- clone, or else the cyclone does not happen. At all events, if the teachings as to the supereminence of mind be true, we do not see why a mental state cannot be help- fully projected not only into our muscles and bones, but into all of the physical na- ture adjacent. Thus, the farmer who per- emptorily forbids himself to think drought will have no drought; and, on the other hand, flooded fields and sloppy roads are simply flooded and sloppy mental states, which can be corrected by a decisive and determined will which knows not of these evil things. The habit of speaking ill-naturedly of the weather, of heaping scorn and abuse upon it, of venting our spleen on the climate, may thus be the cause of our increasing bad weathers and cranky climates. By thinking disease we get disease, and by. thinking bad weather we create it. What a flood of light our Kansas friend throws on the old text about ‘sowing to the wind and of the whirlwind reaping de- struction’! A PLEA FOR TRIAL DIVORCES. E HAVE HEARD a good deal about trial marriages of late, and we judge that the idea has met with only a partial welcome. A New England minister, perhaps taking his cue from the discussion, has intro- duced the idea of a trial divorce. Having been wedded until they are tired of each other, he and his wife now agree to a separation for a definite term, at the expiration of which they will decide whether the separation shall be continued permanently. The off-hand, abitrary and final divorce is as likely to result unhappily as the irrevocable marriage. Every now and then we hear of dissolved couples coming together again, even to the third and fourth time, after an ill-considered separa- tion, To one case where the marri: bond is re-welded there are probably hun- dreds where the parties fail from sheer shrinking to follow their inward prompt- ings. In some cases the separated parties 0 on lonely to the end or form fresh part- nerships, which turn out more disastrously than the first. The simple expedient of a trial divorce might avert these after-miser- jes. In fact, to the student of human na- _ ture who knows the mercurial disposition of most men and women will it not seem that the trial divorce is a solvent of the entire marriage problem? The term of the trial separation might vary according to the seriousness of the domestic difference. For most grievances a three or six months’ separation would no doubt answer. For graver troubles a longer term would be necessary; but we think three to five years would be ample for even the worst cases. Trial divorce deserves a trial. SO LONG FOR THREE YEARS London ontribations sent to the Art Department shoal have the sender's fall name ‘be written upon tts indrvidual picture, and NOT uzon a 135 Brentano's, Avenue del" Opera, Mainz, Germany. Infringement of this cooyright will be promptiy and bigorousiy prosecuted when found unavaitatie cannot be guarantees, id adiress Written plainly on each and every separate sketch. The accompanying joke or sate siip of paver. Inciosune of stamps t0 the fall amount of postage (s also required, to he publishers will be wader obligations if that fact be promptly reported on postal-card or by letter. T IS now proposed to solve the servant-girl problem by abolishing the word * servant” and the word “ Bridget.” ELL, any Friend Caruso wouldn’t put up with any monkey business when it came to a raise of salary. eee ISS-SOO-RY. It may be correct, but it doesn’t have just the right sound to us, Miz-zoo-ry to the contrary notwithstanding. WE UNDERSTAND that the praying contest between the Colorado governor and the Senate chaplain has not yet been decided. r MUST be mighty humiliating to have to come right out and own up that you are only worth $30,000,000. We feel keenly for’ Mr. J. D. MORE BEAUTIFUL MALE CLOTHES DEMANDED. THE CONVICTION appears to be growing that male man 1s not beau- tifully clothed. Both men and women of artistic eye say that mascu- line duds are dolefully inartistic and repugnant to the sight. Various sartorial associations have the matter in hand, and it is believed the future is to witness the emergence of man from his present unimpressive tuxedos, Prince Alberts and sacks into gay-colored, flowing styles, abounding with flounces, rufites and other surprises. When it is considered that of the world’s popula- tion only 500,000,000 are fully clothed, while 750,000,000 are only partially clothed or not at all, it will be seen that the very idea of clothes is as yet but a militant idea barely beginning to establish itself in the favor of a portion of the race. More than 250,000,000 of our fellow-humans pass through life in the “ altogether.”” In other words, for every two human beings that are dressed there 1s one who has not been persuaded that clothes are an advantage. This may be due to the fact that we have not yet contrived a masculine garb which is truly beautiful. The suggestion is made that kilts would supply to man an element of the picturesque, with a dis- creet sprinkling of nude effects, which would go far to reconcile the male human to clothes, and at the same time make him more beautiful in the eyes of woman. If it is the sense of the majority, we are willing; but as to kilts, our feeling is expressed by Pope: “* Be not the first by whom the new is tried, Nor yet the last to lay the old aside.” IF THE Hon. (so-called) Jim Jam Hill goes on getting pessimistic at this rate, the first thing the country knows it will have a sad case on its hands. F WE felt sure that we understood what “ reciprocal demurrage ”’ means, we would feel that we knew a good deal about this railroad-rebate business. we THE Empire State has notified J. Pierpont Morgan that he has paid one cent too much taxes. It is reported that Mr. Morgan will recover the cent and buy a steam yacht with it. HEN John Bull considers that Mr. Bryce’s services at Washington are worth as much to him as the services of President Roosevelt are estimated to be worth by the American people—well, we don’t know just what it means, but undoubtedly it means something. comicbooks.com