Judge — April 4, 1908 — page 2: what you’re looking at

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ble Address,“ Judgark.” Tel, 632 Madison Square. FW. Selinen Terry, Treasurer ncn 1130-7 I. co Hit Grant Hamilton, Art Kaitor uNTS A COPY. = & tho 230 43s, w York, of by express of postal order, mot ly loval chee ls Buu Zht conten of FUDGE ave orotected by cooyriyht tn both the Lines States and Great CONTPIBUTORS must inciose 4 stamped and self-addressed enideiope with all manuscripts, otheriwise return of the latter when foans unavailable cant Ce guarantees. Postage free in 4d so cents 4 year ‘Opera, Faris: saaroach's News bachange, Mains, Jone if that fact be promptly reported on postal-<card or by letter. the pebltabers will be ender obit JUDGE caoeot be foun: THE SWEARING HABIT. the word ‘' very’’; if children were taught that it was not a nice word Ss" folks swear in order to oF a polite word, soon you would he » boys setting together eli be profane, and others and whispering, My, ain't this very hot!"" and then looking fear- merely for the ofem- fully around to see if their elders had heard them, Most of the or- phasis. ‘The first is pure dinary swearing of the day is not « It merely silliness. It is like the childish shows that men do not exercise a pro momy of their b I boy who says, — tiv In that sense there are many ties of swearing, ‘ what a bad boy I dare to equally culpable. Wom the worst offenders, When they write h It ix mere empty showing — letters they swear by underlining words, A girl in her letter, off, We doubt whether it is a ‘Jane's hat was perfectly impossible! She looked a fright! And her nose was so red, all the powder in the world wouldn't If a mar nything of the al avior of asn made cause of damnation, as the ol xehool theologians were wont to it half presen r cared to write beeause we doubt wheth- sort ina letter he would possibly ha er the devil, who is really an in- one would have been as excusabl telligent person, cares very much — intent was red. It is a delicate question, and w about the souls of the empty- too deeply into it; alr we have probably headed. He is after bigger game, But swearing for emphasis, we ness knows we are not playing reformer. We are as weak as any confess, has our sympathy toa certain extent. Few of us hi other brother or sister. But the fact seems plain tha 4, or the tim pte to a study of pu ix an acknowledgment of a feeble vocabulary and poor foresight in in either our sp ing. And we use up all our adjec the use of it. so quickly in ordi ion that when we really tional and want to lend stress to our words, there are no adjecti left with any virility to them, This sounds like an evil sentiment, but it all nt by swearing. Take, for the matter of the weathe an unduly warm day in April w fession of complicity with erir emphatically,“ This is very hot!" Later on we call it awfully hot — ing manuscript with the edges gummed togeth- and terribly hot. But when July hing left with — er, in order todis whether the editor really which to express ourselves save the violent emphasis of forbidden reads it or not, is a very different matter. TI words. If there were only t toavoid the use of — spirit of investigation can be carried too far. able. fe used several **damns,’’ and believ the other, so far as any profane are plunging offense, Good- most swearing, spearian vocabula our wri pme mnvers paper to establish a fake poolroom for th purpose of cheating the police into a con- [ MAY be all right for a New York ne stan but send- mex we have universal ay WOULD ONE THE OTHER? BE WITHOUT comicbooks.com