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

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A BROKEN RIB AND ITS LESSON. A STORY comes from New Jersey that a minister, ignoring the desires of his people, went away on a vacation. While on a bicycle, touring in distant parts, he got mixed with his machine and had a rib broken. This he considered an unmistakabie reprimand from on high. Quick to apply the logic of the mishap, he returned home with the fervor of a new conviction strong upon him, and announced to his people that he would begin at once the revival which they had wanted him to begin earlier in the year. His people looked upon the incident of the br cen rib precisely as he had, and all together they fell to and made the revival notable for its intensity. There is something appealing in this warning of the broken rib. Since it was so effective, we wonder that it is not oftener applied to bring recalcitrant humans to time. Why, for instance, should not some of the big, obstinate and intractable trust and corporation financiers be dealt with on the plan of the broken rib? We take it that for the average every- day offender it would only be necessary to break one rib. For a more de- termined sort of plutocrat it might be necessary to break two ribs. It is possible to suppose that in some cases it might be expedient and even nec- essary to break three, five, or all of the ribs, in order to bring about a gen- uinely repentant state of mind. In any event, the method of the cracked rib loohs so much more speedy and effective than any method so far con- trived, even by a sovereign government, to round up and direct and control the activities of its creatures, that it is a pity it is not available for gen- eral use. DIABOLO, THE NEW BRITISH CRAZE. WE ARE MYSTIFIED by the new sport which is just now the craze all over England, and threatens to inundate the whole world. We refer to “* Diabolo,’’ which is another word for the devil. From such stray accounts as we have seen, the fascination of the game lies in the fact that the “devil” (the centre piece of the play) baffles the skill of the player, and, besides, does so many strange and unaccountable things that the player is eventually dazed and befuddled. There may be a psychological timeliness in this new fad. The people in this day no doubt feel either that they are brought into special relations with the devil, or else that they are after him with unusal vigor. On the other hand, it answers to a funda- mental need of the human mind that the devil should be a remarkably agile and adept person. People who fight the devil are flattered by the notion that he is a skillful genius. Hence diabolo is so cunningly contrived that, while the play seems easy, the player is constantly losing against his inan- imate adversary. Of course diabolo will come to America. Its British origin is a guarantee of that. And it will answer the same need here that it has met there. It will make sport of the devil and turn the strenuosities of the times to recreational uses. The muck-raker, the assailers of plu- tocracy, the crusaders against taint, the whole host of next-steppers who spend their working hours fighting the real devil, will also find pleasure in their off-time playing with a devil of make-believe. A GIRL’S RIGHT TO HER POMPADOUR. THE ATTEMPT of the Pittsburgh department-stores to encroach on the sacred, domain of girldom by issuing a mandate against the pompadour has ended, we believe, in a pitiful fiasco. The idea of any power on earth attempting to issue orders to a girl about her front hair! The Pittsburgh incident may well serve as a text on the utter impotency of male man as a legislator for womankind. The fundamental weakness of all suffragist arguments rests in the fact, instinctively apprehended by man, but rarely understood by woman, that she is already sole sovereign in her own estate. Why should we attempt to add a sovereignty which is already supreme? The contention has been set up that lovely woman adopts this or that style or fad because she wishes to catch the eye of the men-folks or to please her sovereign lord. Nothing of the kind. Observation will show that she most generally acts just the other way; that what the man nearest to her professes to despise, that she affects; while what he professes to like, that she scorns. How else can we account for the endless jeremiads of male man against the foolishnesses of woman’s garb and the endless hot retorts of the women thereto? Thus the Pittsburgh girls, in happy defiance of an impertinent mandate, will go on as heretofore, their pompadours in un- molested freedom. ‘ HE Crackaloo is here. He is the mugwump of other days, minus. That is to say, he is out for what there is in it. FAIRBANKS talking on water, says a newspaper headline. malign influence can be exerted by one notable episode. ‘© IT seems that the “ ghost” business is in a bad way. Mediumistic- ally speaking, the recession so much mooted elsewhere has begun also in the spirit-cabinet. What a NINE New Yorkers have been awarded prizes out of the Carnegie Hero Fund. Time will come, no doubt, when every man who lives in New York will be awarded the title and emoluments belonging to a hero. THE way of the financier is a caution. The great John D.., for instance, requires a report on the product of each hen and of each cow on his estate, and said hen and cow must stand or fall by the record. It is the result of a long life of thinking of oil-wells, of course, that in the case of the cows he requires his manager to report how much each one “* spouts.’” comicbooks.com