Judge — March 15, 1913 — page 4: what you’re looking at

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Easter. Alu CIVILIZATIONS at this period have celebrated what to them was significant of a change in the season and the coming of spring. The ancients, with their idolatries, ob- served the change which nature now =) makes, and for cen- turies Easter has been a Christian festival. Aside from its re- ligious observance, Easter has a worldly significance. It marks the putting on of the habiliments of pride after debasement and fasting, at least in theory, for a sea- son. In the cities, where men and women parade on this day to show their material well-being, an Easter occurring so early as this one has its dangers. The dandy will put on his new spring clothes, and the next day—or the day thereafter—he will probably call -his physician and won- der if pride has not its special punish- ment. And the dame and the damsel, even more venturesome than the dandy, will seek a transient glory in new gear, only in most cases to regret afterward that they had cast off their furs. A Joker in Congress. BPRESENTATIVE THERON AKIN, of New York, the only Progressive Republican in Congress, had some amuse- ment in the House the other day with a joint resolution, in which he cast ridicule upon experiments in the Agricultural De- partment. This resolution authorized the Secre- tary of Agriculture to spend not to ex- ceed $1,000 ‘‘in the purchase of six high-grade, thoroughbred, male turkey buzzards and nineteen thoroughbred hum- ming birds,’’ in order that a test may be I made as to the value of their offspring, “be they gnats or fleas,’’ for agricultural purposes, ‘‘and to report to the Congress whether the experiment is more valuable to the American farmer than those now going on in the bureau, where thousands of dollars have been expended in buying zebras in Africa and transporting the same to the District of Columbia, where they are joined in wedlock to Missouri mules, and the offspring of which seems to be a cross between a North Dakota jack rabbit and an Australian kangaroo."" This, of course, is just fun, and does not discredit the intelligent experiments the Bureau of Agriculture has made for the benefit of the country at large. It would be interesting in this connection to speculate upon what sort of a political hybrid would result from practical appli- cation of some of the theories of the more pronounced among the gentlemen in politics known as Progressives. A HUDRED-TO-ONE SHOT. “What's the use? She may be a great grand- mother now." Women. ‘OMEN the world over are assuming an equality with man that should prove their right to it. They have lived for ages under the handicap of supposed inferiority, and ages of submission have stagnated their initiative faculty; but that they are able to hold their own upon opportunity becomes daily more apparent. In fact, when the conditions under which women have lived are con- sidered in connection with the success they achieve in fields new to them, the thought arises that, with conditions re- versed, man would prove inferior. In this country, while a great body of women are commanding legal recognition of their equality by logical means, an- other great body of women are quietly taking and holding the places of men in every-day professions and vocations. There can be no doubt that this new state of affairs will tend to solve many social problems—although it may bring forward other problems—and to make for greater efficiency in the fields thus invaded by the sex which so long has been confined in its activities. The peculiar forms of aggression that have marked the campaigns of the suffra- gists in Great Britain no doubt have de- veloped a world-wide antagonism toward the cause, but it is likely that they sim- ply mark a phase of a movement that is also world wide. When one reads that the character of the English woman is changing and that the whole sex in Eng- land has assumed a new viewpoint on life, it is apparent that present methods of propaganda are ephemeral and that they will in time be succeeded by a system that will command the results asked for. When suffrage enlists the great body of women who are finding new and health- ful zests in life, logical means will prob- ably be employed to secure its ends. comicbooks.com