Judge — August 17, 1907 — page 2: what you’re looking at

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The accompanying Joke or descriptive letter-oress should in every instance be written apon tts indtoidaal picture, and NOT upon a separate sito of paper. inciosare of stamps to the fall amount of postage 18 also reauired, to insure safe and prompt return of material not accented. 11 JUDGE cannot be found at any sews-stand, the publishers will be wader obligations If that fact be promptly reported ow poutal-card or by letter. ON THE PEOPLE WHO NEVER HAVE TROUBLES. A GENTLEMAN in great perplexity writes to his favorite paper that for a long time he associated with men who talked of nothing but their troubles. Each day developed some new tale of woe. They all moved in an atmosphere of grouch. The gentleman wearied of their companionship, and, following the advice of a certain magazine given to the expounding of a cheery optimism, concluded to move over into a totally different zone of friendship. So he be- gan to associate with men who were thorough- going optimists. In this circle he ceased to hear of troubles, and began to hear only the talk of continual successes. Every fellow had each day some new tale of successful deals, of big winnings on small hazards, of happy triumphs and glow- ing futures. They dwelt under skies that were always smiling. The gentleman discovered, aft- er some weeks, that his new friends palled on him almost as much as the old. Himself subject to the ordinary vicissitudes of life, it grouched him to think that his companions had no trou- bles, but only successes. His disgust reached such a point of intensity that he finally quit his new friends and went back to the old friends, with their daily tales of woe. Behold the lesson! Ordinary mortals resent the optimist almost as much as the pessimist; and ordinary experience long ago indorsed the general contempt of the Micawbers, as well as the Mrs. Caudles. The statesmen who refuse to see dangers are as bad as those who see nothing else. Ordinary mortals sometimes grow tired of parties which can see nothing wrong, and turn for comradeship even to parties that see nothing but wrongs. eee MONEY is left for all sorts of objects, but it has remained for a New York man to leave a comfortable bequest to a fat hen. eee AND now the bottom is dropping out of the Erie Canal. What a lot of trouble we are having with the dog-gone canals, ain’t we? JAPAN seems to be pacifying Corea in a way that suggests to the spec- tator the spectacle of a farmer wringing the neck of a chicken. ‘ CLEVELAND man resorts to habeas-corpus proceedings to compel his mother-in-law to return to his house. The mother-in-law joke herewith admits that it is dead. THE south seems to be getting muddled over Mr. Bryan. In some places he has become a superstition, in some an anesthetic, elsewhere a problem, and in some parts only a reminis- cence. he ve WE NOTE with pleasure that two of the American Rhodes scholars will undertake to personally conduct parties about London. This goes far to justify the good sense of Cecil Rhodes. eee AST week it was reported that the British head was growing smaller. This week a report reaches us that the British head is growing bigger. We wish the British head would decide ‘on a policy and stick to it. wat a wonderful man is John D.! Now, we would not joke about a little matter like a $29,240,000 fine. F ANYBODY has a right to kick in these troublous times it is the joke- writer. Here is Kentucky gone “dry.” WE ARE glad to note that the Jap war is coming along. Another Jap artist has been discovered making maps of a little fort. ALAS! how many are the woes of living! Connecticut girl destroys herself because, as she confesses in a note, ‘‘ My hands are always sweaty.” aa ESTWARD the course of reform takes its way. How to raise children nudely will now be tried by a progressive bunch of Chicago professors. WHen a millionaire gives a river to his bride as a wedding-gift we begin to wonder how long before somebody will be giving away the Atlantic Ocean. SECRETARY TAFT to go on the stump, says a headline. Sounds better that way than to say platform. A stump is a solider foundation than a platform, THE proposition to banish music from the saloons in a Connecticut city has raised a furious protest. It is claimed that music hath power to soothe even a breast somewhat confused by liquor. WHY MALE MAN LAUGHED AT A SUFFRAGETTE. AN ILLUMINATIVE INCIDENT is reported from the Finnish diet, where some thirty women have been swept into legislative posts by the suffrage movement. One of the suffragettes occupied a rocking-chair during the legislative session and, becoming bored, began to rock. Losing her balance, the chair went over backward, and the legislative suffragette poked her feet into the atmosphere for something like twenty seconds. Ordinarily, the spectacle of a lady in this position would have called out all the gallantry of the men present, and strenu- ous efforts would have been made to effect a speedy and polite reversal. In this instance, however, it seems that the male part of the as- sembly simply tilted back its hydra-head and haw-hawed uproariously. Now, the puzzle is, why did they laugh? There can be no doubt that the ordinary gentlemanly instincts would have been utterly opposed to laughter at such a mishap. But because the lady was the member of a legislature, and a woman who had her rights, the whole current of those same ordinary gentle- manly instincts ran the other way. Are we to regard the incident as an indication of a changed sentiment and feeling toward the fairer half of mankind so soon as said fairer half has gained what the suffragettes are pleased to call their rights? This same ‘suffragette may be ask- ing herself the question why a woman with all her rights achieved is treated with so much less courtesy than a woman with most of her rights withheld. comicbooks.com