Judge — June 7, 1913 — page 5: what you’re looking at

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E RIDES, roses and June, Could there be a happier combination? Although it takes two to make a bar- gain, and there are as many bridegrooms as brides, one sees comparatively little in the public prints about the grooms, unless they be millionaires or otherwise distinguished from the general run of men. This is as it should be. In too many cases the bride's distinction does not sur- vive the honeymoon, whereas the wed- ding is the point from which the every- day groom must branch out for fame and wherewithal. The honeymoon is something apart. Poets have sung it, but they need not have made special effort to celebrate it, for honeymooners are poets in mood if not in fact. It is the one period in life —sometimes longer, sometimes shorter— during which a blissful pair are isolated from the world, though of the world. No matter where they may be, no matter what their environment, they see and hear and contemplate only each other. The vulgar may note their abstraction, or even make merry over it; but that doesn’t matter. The honeymooners may put up at hotels where every one observes every one else, and be as separate as though aloneon an island in the sea. They don’t even care what the fare may be. The weather has no influence to eclipse their felicity. In a zero atmosphere they are as warm as ever, and rain may pour from a sky of darkness and they do not miss the sun, Soon enough for the groom will come the worries of business and problems which children bring. And even sooner to the bride may come culinary and other dilemmas, perhaps made more difficult by reminiscences of his mother’s skill or foresight in like premises, Surely, bride and groom are entitled to all the actual felicity and happy dreaming that a more or less brief season of irre- sponsibility may vouchsafe to them. Brief Decisions SOMETIM ES a controversialist may be overcome by silence. Beauty is something fine to look at be- tween meals, but a good pie maker is al- ways popular. Most persons think little of advice un- til they themselves have had experience upon which to base it. CAN HE HANDLE BOTH OF THEM? Ss A Consistent Pacifier SECRETARY OF STATE BRYAN may go down in history as the Great Paci- fier. He recently said, at one of the many banquets at which he has lately figured as chief orator, that he had made up his mind, before he accepted his present place, that he would not take it if he thought there was to be a war during his tenure. All through this Japan- ese sparring Mr. Bryan has preached peace. He literally cried for it be- fore he went West, to pour the oil of paci- fication on troubled waters in California. He breathed heavily and impressively of peace while there. He has spoken and dreamed of little but peace since his re- turn, Peace is an ideal universal state and a desired condition as between States and nations. And peace has characterized Mr. Bryan’s temper and temperament ever since he entered politics. He has been quiet, passive and peaceful in all his attempts upon the presidency. No great political convention of the several which he has attended on rubbers, and in which he has comported himself so quietly that the dropping of pins could at any time be heard, remembers him otherwise than as a bland, meek, gentle and complaisant person, who sat in silence and waited for lightning to strike. Nothing harsh, ag- gressive or combative is remembered of Mr. Bryan in all his career as a politician and presidential candidate. As a statesman he apparently has or- dered his course on like premises. He would turn a threat from some other na- tion with a soft word, just as cheese turns the edge of aknife. And in private life, no doubt, if Mr. Bryan should be assailed by a footpad, knocked down, and rifled of his portable valuables, he would rise without anger, apologize for the meagerness of his contribution to enter- prise, and go his way in peace. comicbooks.com