Judge — August 3, 1912 — page 5: what you’re looking at

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E Summering. DOES idleness promote irresponsibil- ity? The vacation season has de- veloped one human characteristic to the point that makes it steady game for the hu- morists. Summer love- making is a standing jest for its insincerity. Yet no doubt the mer- riment inspired by phi- landering on the shore or in the mountains in summer is based on an exaggerated idea. Many a match is truly struck in vacation circumstances, and Cupid will not be de- nied when he seriously takes aim. The vacation impulse to others than philanderers should be one of relaxa- tion. Otherwise vacation serves no good purpose. The mind should be freed from serious thought and the body from habitual strain, And by indulging in ease for the period, both body and mind will respond to the demands made when the ordinary ac- tivities of life are resumed. It is natural that in this state of relaxation there should be variation from the exactitudes of life in other circumstances. That is part of the purpose of vacation. Men and wom- en while idling may think things and do things they would not think and do when in the regular hurly-burly. Those will dance who never danced before, and those who always dance will dance the more, to put it figura- tively. Joy and its concomitants re- late to the season, without reference to that proverb about the devil, mischief and idleness, which is so often misapplied. Enjoying the period one must perforce fall into the mild aberration called ‘‘summer madness,’’ and this without moral injury yet with mental and physical benefit. Brief Decisions. No road is rough enotgh to stop love from running. The more you worry about it, the hot- ter the weather will get. Self-denial is all right until those whom it benefits regard it as a natural habit in those who practice it. The man who is industrious, able and acts on the square with his neighbors has no business for the horoscope reader. THE NEW PROFESSOR WILSON REVIVES THE OLD PROFESSOR “WILSON BILL." L S Sentiment. Sentiment, sensibility, susceptibility is always alive to temper the harder side of humanity. It is shown in per- sons who might ordinar- ily be presumed to lack it, and its exercise in strange circumstances sometimes astonishes even the avowed senti- mentalist. It has been illustrated more than once lately by the influence of poetry, which many think has lost its potency among the modern. Poets confined in prison in various cir- cumstances have won freedom either by their own metrical efforts or through verses that stirred the pity of execu- tives who were moved to issue par- dons. But executives do not read poetry as editors do. Of course extenuating circum- stances must have figured in these cases. It is not Jupce’s function to criticise a Governor or a President for exercising clemency to poets, and it is better that poets should be at large than that they should be con- fined without warrant. Perhaps, too, poets at liberty to roam as they may will write less and find something better to do. There are too many persons in this country that know how to rhyme, and too few that are familiar with various tools of indus- try. If fewer were given to writing and a greater number to the manipu- lation of useful implements, less would be said and heard about the altitude of prices for things that are good to eat. comicbooks.com