Judge — July 23, 1910 — page 4: what you’re looking at

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PUBLISHED WEEKLY LESLIE-JUDGE COMPANY John A. Sleicher, President. Reuben P. Sleieher, Secretary. | Arthur Terry, Treasurer. in Lee, Manasing Editor. Judge’s Advice to Those About To Marry. UDGE, as a rule, does not take very seriously the ad- vice given to ‘‘ My Girls” by the writers in publications de- voted to women and their in- terests, The best advice on troubles of the household or heart will be found in ‘* His Honor’s'’ Women’s Depart- ment, in which Mr. Hik Hok, the famous editor of the Perfect Ladies’ Companion, gives advice or comfort, as individual cases may demand. But, speaking most seriously, Jupce has been impressed by the large number of in- quiries in papers for women asking for ad- vice in the choice of a husband. There seemed to be a sincere desire on the part of the young women to know, beyond the per- missibility of doubt, that no sins of the father should be visited upon the children unto the third and fourth generations. This JUDGE is too serious a matter for any kind of a jest, and Jupce takes the matter up simply because of the failure of the women’s publi- cations to give any practical advice. To such young women ‘His Honor’? would say that the young man who can show his sweetheart a life-insurance policy in one of the reliable, old-line insurance com- panies offers to such a young woman the best bill of his health that she can hope to see. To the famous reply of Punch to those about to marry, ‘* Don’t!" Jupce would add the amendment, “‘ Unless the groom has an insurance policy in a reliable company."” “ His Honor’ lays special emphasis upon the character of the insurance company, be- cause so many of the cheap assessment as- sociations and fraternal societies take all sorts of risks. Often their medical exami- nations of applicants are nothing but farces. Such, however, is not the case with the old, reliable insurance companies. The opinion of local pastors about any young man is not to bedespised. A brother can of- ten give his sister excellent advice about the character of other young men in the neigh- borhood. Such of tae publica- tions for women as have made similar recommendations to young women Jupce does not desire to criticise. ‘* His Honor’? encroaches upon their field simply because, while hit- ting the target, they have not hit the bull’s-eye. Whomever else a young man may fool, he does not fool the medical ex- aminer of a good insurance company. In conclusion, Jupce might say that a young man ought to think enough of his bride and the home-that-is-to-be to see that the same is safeguarded. There is no bet- ter present that a groom could give a bride than an insurance policy written in her favor. But that is another story. JuDcE is not an insurance journal. Pen-Points. A DANISH poet was sent home by our immigration authori- ties the other day, because he had only twenty-four dollars in his pocket. How times have changed since Hendrik Hudson landed here and got a quitclaim deed to Manhattan Island for that precise amount! For the high cost of living get the quota- tions at Reno for the early part of July. It is said that when the German air fleet is ready, the Kaiser is going to appoint him- self high admiral of the air. Perhaps we shall then have a real clew as to the identity of the man higher up. The man who wrote that ‘‘ Woman is by nature a smuggler,”’ and had his observation printed so as to read ‘‘snuggler” for ‘‘smug- gler,’’ didn’t have much to take back. It is strange, but the man with money to burn is the man with cold cash. Epigrams. «« AN EPIGRAM should be, if right, Short, simple, pointed, keen, and bright. A lively little thing Like wasp with taper body found By lines, not many, neat and bound, All ending in a sting.”” The above definition, taken from the Lat- in, is rather a long one for such a short thing as an epigram. It is, however, the best one that has yet appeared. The epi- gram has reached its highest development in America, where it seems to fit with the strenuous life of the times. It has routed and put to flight the long, dry-as-dust edito- rial. Epigrams have played an important part in campaign literature. One of the best checks upon vulgarity, impudence, and vanity is the newspaper epigram. The epi- gram may be said to be the leaven of humor that leaveneth the whole lump. comicbooks.com