Judge — March 12, 1910 — page 4: what you’re looking at

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PUBLISHED WEEKLY LESLIE-JUDGE COMPANY New Your John A, Sleicher, President. y. Arthur Terry, Treasurer. AND WILE S HORT weight is one of the dis- comforts the race has had to putup with since scales first came in- to use. Now the never- slumbering guardian of the people's stomach is trying to stir up more trou- ble for us, coming forward with the pronunciamento that a species of hen is being bred to lay diminutive eggs. With due respect to the great science of chemistry, the theo- 8 Dr. Wiley seems able to hatch exceed in number the chicks hatched by the best ineubator on the market. As we haven't yet heard that the hen which lays small eggs makes it up by laying two per day, we don't see the point of this diabolical scheme, unless it be to make us buy twice as many eggs. The problem which this involves is a double-decker. In its prac- tical aspects it ranks with the increased production of gold as a question for econ- omists to wrestle with. From the scien- tifie standpoint, involving as it does a reversion to type, it is one of the deep questions of the evolutionary hypothesis, and calls aloud for another Darwin or Spencer to give it satisfactory treatment. Millions of yeurs ago the eggs of the ancestress of the present barnyard speci- men were exceeding small, and now the cupidity of depraved human nature is set ting in motion a reverse process, which in some millions of rs will bring us to hen’s eggs as small as those of the hum- JUDGE ming bird. With a dozen of these cen- stituting asmall portion for one, think of the cost of a club breakfast a million years hence! But since the problem is an intricate and a dual one of economics and science, Dr. Wiley hardly seems to possess the qualifications to unravel it. What we need is another referee board. To please some folks is a thing imp sible. Scarcely had we finished reading the aforesaid complaint that eggs are too small, when we stumbled upon another from the same source, this time because, forsooth, oysters are too large. Come, come, Dr. W., this is too much! Sup- pose, after taking the bivalve from natu- ral beds, oystermen do drop them in fresh or brackish water at the mouth of acreek to ‘‘plump"’ or ‘fatten’? them. Even an oyster has certain ‘‘ inalienable rights,"’ and not the least of these is the right to put on flesh with a change of water and diet. If what oysters need is a ‘*change,”’ by all odds let them have But when you say, doctor, that in order to secure the free advertising of their products afforded by typhoid-fever epidemics, oystermen are particularly careful to select fur the purpose above those creeks only which possess a super- abundance of sewage, excuse us if we part company again. Anyway, since we've got to have small eggs, let’s have the oyster as big and fat as can be. COLLEGE MEN IN POLITICS. HE assertion, so often made, that college-bred men hold them- selves aloof from politics is not true. Secretary of War Dickinson a: Secretary of the Navy Meyer r cently gave an interview to the Yale Daily News. Both of these Cabinet officers were unanimous in the opinion that college men are ‘‘ a strong factor in the control of publicaffairs that their ‘influence has increased in late y and that this influence ** continue to increase greater ratio." In speaking of the prejudice against college men that existed in the past, Sec- retary Mey said: ‘ Twenty- fi rs ago there was a good deal of prejudice against college graduates among the men of influ- ence in the gov- ernment. Itwas thought that they were too ina AND GET HER SIDE, HIS SIDE. THEY SEPARATE LIFE’S TRIANGLE, AND THE PUBLIC'S SIDE OF THE AFFAIR. full of theories and not suited to prac- tical workaday duties. But of late years this prejudice has disappeared. The col- lege-bred men have gradually forged to the front. The old idea is passing that a man to obtain necessary training must copy letters and clear out ash trays all day long for a year or two. When one considers the amount of mud that is thrown at every one in public office, it is surprising to find so many col- lege men willing to take up the duties of citizenship at such a personal sacrifice. The college graduate seems to be doing his work, and doing it well, in spite of articles to the contrary in some of the magazines. A NEW FORM OF POLITICAL COR- RUPTION DISPATCH to the few York Tribune, headed ‘* Kisses for Votes, says that this form of po- litical bribery does not ap- to the Wellesley Col- lege students as a proper and fitting way to win legislators to the cause of woman suffr: The girls of Wellesley main- tain that the fight for suffrage, if de- prived of its dignity and saneness, will fall to the ground, and that the legislator who would change his vote for the caress of a stranger—no matter how attractive she might be—has no place among a lawmaking bedy. In this decision of the Wellesley girls JupGe fully concurs. Those of us who know the power of a kiss in the home tremble at the fearful results that would come to American politics were kisses of- fered for votes on election day. IDLE THOUGHTS GHOSTS are creepy things which are very seldom because they are afraid of mortal beings and run before they are noticed. The rea- son colored people see more ghosts than white people is because the ghosts cannot \ distinguish them from the \ \ seen darkness in time toavoid observa- tion. A woman re- joices before marriage in the old, old story, but after mar- riage it is just as well if her hus- band can manage to give hera few new ones occa- sionally when he is explaining certain things she insists upor know} A comicbooks.com