Judge, 1910-04-23 · page 16 of 24
Judge — April 23, 1910 — page 16: what you’re looking at
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This page is primarily **advertising**, not political satire. It contains product ads for corn starch, beer (Blatz), hair treatment, and other goods typical of early 20th-century magazines. The only substantive editorial content is an essay titled "LOVE" (continued from a previous page). The piece satirizes American attitudes toward romance by contrasting them with European romanticism. The author argues Americans underestimate love's importance and overestimate European sophistication about it. He suggests geography shapes perception—a lovesick youth seems poetic from Padua, Italy, but ridiculous from Hoboken, New Jersey. The satire mocks American pragmatism: we judge love by whether it ends tragically, and we associate sentiment with European locations rather than our own cities. The piece reflects early 20th-century cultural anxiety about American materialism versus European tradition, suggesting readers should romanticize their own homeland rather than fetishize foreign settings.
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Perhaps from want of experience, the American man, realizing that he should talk of love more than he does and that he should do it with grav} too general. aa to go into detail. vi ‘alities as those to the effect that love is the supreme gift must be avoided. It is sane to refer to one’s discovery of love. It is wise to speak of love as a tragedy to those who think. It is expedient to speak, in the presence of an American heiress, of love as/ aspecies of intoxication. But the thing | must be done, or rather said, reflectively, | | without a smile. A woman, hearing a |man dogmatize on the theme of love, | provided he can look pensive, suspects Aman might discuss chemistry with the wisdom of | Sir Oliver Lodge or of the late Henri Beequerel thout inspiring in any jinine head the n alighveat notion that x has a mind. But if he suppress a sigh while observing that love is less an 3) art than an instinct, every woman who overhears him will set him down an Aristotle. 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They eiltiance of the failures. liantly in love is to immort HUNTE BALTIMORE EXHILARATES THE SPIRIT AND RESTORES THE TONE OF LANGUID NATURE Bald at ait Qrtctaca cates end by Jobhers Wa AS RTS SSO Teor ae self as master of an art at which one is | — That is because | Man’s criterion as in business, is success. judges the passion by the trag- If that tragedy be the merest amateur. love Wom edy it involves, as_a Romeo. Had Romeo been from Milwaukee instead of from Verona, how funny he would seem! It is marvelous what different results one gets by chang- ing the hemisphere. The moral of this is that we must associate our great cities with sentiment. A youth from Padua! How that suggests moonlight, and lit lakes that shine, and sonnets, and a | maid whispering beneath a tree! ‘But let the youth be from Ho- boken, N. J.—ah, bah! | Love in this country would be pro- moted by the circulation of gold coin. | Th use of silver and greenbacks is ic. All the heroes of the great Bfrairs had purses full of gold. The lover is never quite devoted until he has to the hand of some appropriate obstacle to his passion , the policeman on the beat or the y who runs the errands. To get a per- fumed note and to translate the grati-| tude it inspires by thrusting a dollar bill hand is to rush into It might be replied that the absence of gold coin in the medium of circulation renders love less expensive and thus brings its luxury within the reach of the poor. The difficulty might be evaded by the revival of the gold dol- lar. For gold is the metal of love. Sifl- ver is too political in its suggestions. A silver dollar is heavy, unsentimental, and practical. A lover with his purse full of silver dollars is difficult to take seriously. | In a word, love has in our country no background. Ruskin deplored the ab- sence of castles in ruins as the feature in American landscape. It would have ‘ (Continued on next page.) WHAT CAN YOU SAVE A MONTH ? 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