Judge — July 5, 1913 — page 4: what you’re looking at

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The Rights of Woman ASIDE from a little good-natured jest- ing at times about the modern am- bitions of woman, Jupce has seriously and consistently advocated suffrage and all other reasonable rights for which the advanced women of the day are fighting. Its weekly page, ‘‘The Modern Woman," has been and will continue to be proof of this fact, His Honor upholding every sane effort made in the premises. Jupce has had too many proofs of woman's ability and good sense to doubt for a moment her right to the vote, and her success in active competition with man in many fields from which she long had been debarred by selfishness and prejudice clinches her claim to essential equality. And it is gratifying to observe that gradually the various States of this Union are coming to the same conclusion. The latest commonwealth to recognize woman is Illinois, which has opened the ballot to the sex for all statutory offices and presidential electors and on all prop- tions submitted to the people. In time it is expected that Illinois will march to the line with other States and by constitutional amendment open abso- lutely to woman the franchise which is now withheld as to Governor and other State officers. Wyoming was the pioneer State to grant suffrage, taking action in 1869. Colorado (1893), Utah and Idaho (1896), Washington (1910), Arizona, California, Kansas and Oregon (1912) have given woman the vote, and there can be no doubt that other States will follow when they have been educated on the subject. No State that has granted the franchise can show any reason against it asa re- sult of experience, while in every State that has given woman the vote reasons multiply as to the wisdom of the conces- sion. It is significant that the news- papers which recorded the action of Illi- nois on the same day published the news that the Norway Storthing had unani- mously passed a bill enfranchising all women in that country. And later came news that a bill to amend the Constitu- tion by adding a suffrage amendment has been prepared in the United States Senate. The movement is universal, and promises to become irresistible. SPECIAL VACATION NOTICE EMBER when you go on your | Post Office Department will ur JUDGE from your residence to your new vacation address, unless you notify the postmaster, at your place of residence, that you desire to have your papers sent temporarily ew address and leave the postage with he can forward your publications. jon should be for A MONTH OR ise us of your old and new address this office, and your postmaster, from ten days 10 two weeks for us to make a | change of address so that it will be necessary during that time to have the postmaster look after your papers. Be particular to send us your old as well as your new address. By carefully complying with these requests you will save yourself a lot of | trouble and insure the prompt and regular deliv. ery of the publications for which you have subscribed. LESLIE-JUDGECO., 225 Fitth Ave., New York ‘ | be unnecessary tear in mind tha | One Touch of Humor 'S THERE a national character in hu- mor? Some humorists think so, and even wise men—not meaning that humor- ists lack wisdom—discuss the matter af- firmatively in astudy of human character- istics. There are two sides to this. The examples that most often arise in alleged opposition in considering humor are American and English. It is as- sumed that the Englishman and the American differ widely in humorous fac- ulty and appreciation. But, broadly, this would seem to be an erroneous as- sumption, . The American may have developed a fragmentary humor that strikes and must be felt in accord with his quickness of habit and his proverbial activity, while the Englishman, in his every-day jests, may be more deliberate and thoughtful, in line with his individual characteristics as they are accepted by more mercurial peoples. But if this be so, honors are even, for the English humorist makes up in thought for the more superficial bril- liancy of his brother on this side of the sea. Going to great examples and integral principles, it is plain that the same sort of humor is common to both nations. Charles Dickens, who has been called the greatest of English humorists, was and is quite as popular in this country as at home, and Tom Hood and other English humorists in their day have pleased and been appreciated here as in Great Brit- ain. On the other hand, Charles Farrar Browne, famous throughout the English- speaking world in his day as Artemus Ward, convulsed English audiences in Egyptian Hall, London, with his lectures, as he did audiences here, while his writ- ings were popular in both lands. He was peculiarly and essentially American, as was the later lamented Mark Twain, who also won general appreciation. Even in fugitive and occasional jesting it is true also that the countries are in effect one. Moreover, if one will study the weekly page in JupGe that gives ex- amples of humor from England, Germany, France, Italy, Spain and other countries, he will discover that all are more or less alike in subjects and method. In fact, one touch of humor makes the whole world kin. comicbooks.com