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Vol. LXIII. Copyright 1912, by Leslie-Judge Company. Entered at the Post-office at Cable address. “Judgark." Telephone 6632 Madison Square. Published weekly by Lesle-Judge Company, Brunswick Building. 225 Fifth Avenue, New York. New York as second-clags mail matter. John A. Sleicher, President. Grant E. Hamilton, Art Director. E D Reuben P. Steicher, Secretary. A. E. Rotlauer, Assistant Treasurer. J. A. Waldron, Editor. Judge October 5, 1912 Ni G Parist 1 Clara Strasse, T O R Superficiality. ‘OST of the appeals on the stage to- day are superficial. If the eye is pleased and the ear tickled, the aim is held to have been well directed and the end achieved. The intelectual now has small place on the boards. For genera- tions—for ages, in fact —while the theater had its vulgarities and its super- ficialities, its substance was intellectual. Great minds wrote for the theater, and the best of minds found sol- ace and uplift in it. There was a moral fiber in plays that is now lacking, and, although the stage was inveighed against —for Puritanism in its more drastic in- sistence has died slowly—it had a solid- ity that convinced even fanatics that it could be powerful for good. It is true that the theater to-day in its more serious manifestations is nearer to every-day life than ever, for realism has developed in it. But too much of its effort is frothy, and thus of little ethical force, and too much is also sheer vulgarity. In its marvelous material development, shown in the picturing and dressing of plays, the stage now surpasses all efforts of the past. But it is a pity that, with this tangible better- ment, there should not have grown up a more earnest conception of its real function among those who administer it. The Girl Who Works. Two large cotton-fabric manufactories in Connecticut report that they cannot get help enough and that they are John Street, A Mainz, Germany. The contents of JUDGE are protected by copyright in both the United States and Great Britain. fA No. 1616 SUBSCRIPTION RATES One year, or 52. numbers. $5.00 Six months, or 26 numbers < Thirteen weeks =. . ce by draft on New York, or by express or Agents—International News Company, Bream's Bul London: Brentano's, Avenue de!’ stal order. L S twenty-five per cent. short-handed. Re- ports like this come from other textile Wages are as high as at any previous time, and yet it is almost im- possible to get enough young women to do the work, It seems that the reason is social and not economic, The impres- sion is growing among young women that social standing is lost by working inthe mills, Girlsof the sort that form- erly worked in factories now seek em- ployment as clerks, salespeople, cash- iers and typewriters and in other occupa- tions where discipline may be less strict, the work not so wearying, the compan- ionships more attractive and the oppor- tunities for dress display larger. Looked at broadly, this inclination may be another step in the evolution of American factory girls that began when they first manifested disinclination to go into domestic service. While it un- doubtedly indicates pride, it also shows ambition and a desire for larger spheres. Probably the tendency will not lessen, if young women continue to feel that by working in mills they will be in a lower social caste; and if they think they will not be considered so attractive by young men, the exodus will be continued and magnified. When the question comes up as to where factory hands are to be obtained, of course the only answer will be that they must be imported. But the foreign toilers that may come will soon assimi- late the ideas of those whose places they take; and if they do not, their daugh- ters will refuse factory work for the more showy occupations now open to women. Possibly, as a last resort, the mills may offer employment to the mul- titude of young fellows who are now idlers and who embody a problem in every center of population. That would not be a deplorable sequel. centers. Mother! The artist who drew the striking pic- ture, entitled ‘The Gambler—His One Best Bet,’’ on another page of JupGE this week, had in mind the dominant thought of thousands of persons—men, women and children—at some crucial point in their lives. In the thought of mother there wey is magic influence from the CH \ cradle even to old age. A Ie little boy of six, in Balti- Pa more, had fallen into an empty box, whose lid au- tomatically closed. After Wh trying in vain to get out, N . his thoughts turned to <= mother—his natural pro- tector. With a beautiful faith, he prayed the Lord to send his mamma, who presently found him exhausted and almost unconscious, It is a common experience of the bat- tlefield that the dying soldier's last thought isof mother. In every man the strongest developing influence has been that of a good mother, and though in life’s hurry and bustle this is crowded into the background, it is a subconscious possession of moral po- tency and at any moment may be called to the surface, Guilty of accepting bribes in connec- tion with notorious councilmanie graft cases in Detroit, a city official is moved to make full confession by his aged mother, who said, ‘‘Let the truth pre- vail!’? Instances might be multiplied. One never grows too old to feel the influence of his mother; and that influ- ence, it may be assumed, is ever on the side of right. The old man’s loose boots indicate one phase of wisdom, and the young man’s. tight ones the lack of it. comicbooks.com