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Judge — December 13, 1913 — page 4: what you’re looking at
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This page contains three distinct sections: **"The Tango"** (left editorial): Discusses the tango dance's origins and social controversy. It notes the Kaiser and Pope have condemned it, and that French artists are adopting it under different names to circumvent bans. **"The Prospect"** (right editorial): Commentary by Secretary of the Navy Josephus Daniels on agricultural prosperity, suggesting farmers hire bookkeepers to track their improved finances. **Bottom cartoon**: Depicts a woman controlling various figures (appearing to represent different social groups) like puppets. The caption "ALL FOR HER SAKE—AND STILL SHE WANTS SUFFRAGE" satirizes women's suffrage advocates, suggesting women already wield considerable power over society despite lacking voting rights—a common anti-suffrage argument of the era.
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The Tango EVERYBODY is dancing the tango— that is, everybody that dances. It has set the civilized world agog. Man and woman have danced in all ages and in all conditions. Going back to barba- rigm, the dance is found. Every tribe and every nation has had its dances, with ex- tremes from the whirling of the dervish to the war dance of the Indian. Biolo- gists have studied the characteristics of peoples through their dances, and scien- tists have labored over the psychology of dancing. But the tango seems to have involved more of humanity than ever danced one dance before. The Kaiser has forbidden the tango, and Berlin society is disturbed. The Vatican has denounced it, and still it will be danced. Humanity is perverse. One way to insure the practice of something is to attempt to prohibit it. There are places where these proscriptions of the tango will be effective, and other places where the very fact that the dance has been interdicted will add to its vogue. The tango is danced so generally in Paris that one of the citizens of that cap- ] ital has suggested a change of its name to Tangoville. More than this, Jean Richepin, the poet, has eulogized the tango before the five academies of the Institute. He has seriously declared that one of the most necessary as well as one of the most beautiful of human functions is the dance. Even the ancients knew its values. Socrates, ‘‘old and ashamed that he knew nothing of the dance,’’ sought Aspasia for instruction, that his store of knowledge might be perfected. To the assertion that the tango is of vulgar origin, Richepin answers that every dance, from the jig to the gavotte, had a rustic beginning. Paris, he says, will thoroughly Gallicize the tango ana give it new beauties and a characteristic spirit. Thus, no doubt, the tango here- after will be exploited in this country by French artists under another name and with fresh thrills, It goes without saying that there are tangos and tangos. Leslie's Weekly re- cently published a page illustrating the movements of the tango as described by a couple in whom the art of it was para- mount. Individuality and sensibility, passion and exaltation give to any dance a multitude of phases. The tango may be danced decorously by persons of decorum or pruriently by persons who wish to make it prurient. No two persons drink a cup of tea with exact likeness of manner. And so dances of all kinds will be danced with the degree of grace or of decency natural to or designed by the dancers. The Prospect OSEPHUS DANIELS, Secretary of the Navy, says a new era of prosperity and good living is about to dawn for the farmer, because “the new tariff will remove QQss) from him the excessive &Y charges for every article he uses."” Secretary Daniels is an edi- tor and ought to know just how the farmer will fare. Happy farmer! He may get less for his corn, his oats, his hay, his potatoes, his hogs, his hens and his other produce, but will save a bit on an occa- sional pair of boots, overalls and the odds and ends he gets in town. He may have to hire a bookkeeper the first season to show profit and loss; but if he does, it is dollars to doughnuts he will fire that expert when he looks at the figures. eee Brief Decisions THE MAN who agrees with you is one wise guy. o Courtship has some felicitous silences that matrimony never knows. Regret over the loss of a dollar is some- times,solaced by the discovery of a dime not accounted for. ‘ALL FOR HER SAKE—AND STILL SHE WANTS SUFFRAGE comicbooks.com