Judge — March 19, 1910 — page 4: what you’re looking at

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JUDGE SMOKERS’ NUMBER PUBLISHED BY LESLIE-JUDGE COMPANY Furr nt erry, Treasurer, James Melvin Lee, Managing Fe Grant E. Hamilton, Art Editor, A GRAND OLD MAN UDGE wants to concur in the de- cision handed down by Senator Depew that Colonel Gordon's ad- dress was unique in the lit- erature of the Senate. With Senator Depew, Jur presses a re- gret at the departure of Colonel Gordon from the Senate. The Southern colonel had been appointed by the Gov- ernor of Mississippi to fill a very brief vacancy in the Senate. His maiden speech was his valedictory. No national problems were dis- cussed, but it was full of the milk of human kindness, so full of hope of the continued prosperity of this country, so free from scolding and fault-finding that JuncE does not wonder that the Senators were held spellbound by the simple story of ‘the grand old man,’ who told of the vision his mother had when her son should sit in the Sen- ate hall. Jupce is glad the dream came true, and had His Honor been present in the Senate when the speech was delivered he would have applau.ted with the Senators. With apologies to Lincoln, Junce wishes he knew what brand of tobacco Colonel Gordon smokes, 80 that more of this brand could be sent to the Senators. 2 OME FOLKS foolishly buy shoes as if they were trying to make two corns grow where one grew before. JUDGE SILLY DOINGS OF THE RICH ‘0 OBJECTION can be offered to a person cele brating the birth- day of his pet dog, if he does it dog fashion; but when a Baltimoce jeweler made a feast for his dog Dixie, in honor of the dog's enth birthday, and Dixie, wearing a nd collar valued at $15,000, sat at » with his master and his master’s friends, being served with the choicest bits of canvasback duck and diamond- back terrapin, the spectacle is disgusting. Scenes like this, ‘‘ monkey dinners,"’ and ostentatious display of every sort serve to breed contempt for the rich and to fan class hatred. Says the Spectator, in a re cent number, “Riches should be no bar to public esteem, but certainly they con- fer no overwhelming claim to our homage. The vulgar, ostentatious rich have at least conferred this benefit on soc! like the drunken helot, they have given an example and have made mere riches con- temptible."” By the side of the Balti- more incident, JuncE: should like to place a number of rich citizens who, despite the possession of millions, still maintain, in their personal habits and family life, a simplicity as beautiful as it is wholesome. ele’ diam the tat A GOOD PEDESTAL FOR THE RIGHT BKAND. Jupce—t* Come on, Bill, smoke up !"* AN EXTRAVAGANT HOBBY. HE coin and stamp collecting fads, while perfectly harm- less in themselves, have helped to put a fictitious value on things. In England alone there are a half lion stamp fad- dists, and of school- boys more than seventy per cent. are col- lectors. A short while ago the Prince of Wales paid $7,250 fora twopenny Mauritius stamp. A lit- tle two-cent missionary stamp of Hawaii of the date of 1851 is worth at least $5,000. The Prince of Wales can afford to buy stamps at such figures, but there are a lot of schoolboys and others, who have the fever as bad as he, who can’t so well afford to be collectors of articles whose prices are regulated ‘on such a scale. Every year the number who have the hobby in- creases, and every year the value of the rare stamps increases, too. ‘There are to-day two English firms which have over a million and a quarter dollars invested in stamps alone. Within reasonable limits, stamp collecting is a good hobby for school children, for indirectly it brings them much information; it is, too, a legitimate field for museums, But there is nothing about the fad that ministers to the actual needs of the world, and, such being the case, the figures quoted are sufficient to show that as a fad it has gone too far. OME PEOPLE build castles in the air when they ought to be letting a little fresh air into their cottage. comicbooks.com