Judge — December 27, 1913 — page 4: what you’re looking at

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What Cheer ? HE Old Year still leaves the stage in decrepit guise, while the New Year comes on as an infant. This may seem an extravagant exercise of artistic license as to the departing, but the vicissitudes of many a year, like those which age mankind, are likely to make it gray, bent and generally sere and yellow. Of course the New Year is always a kid. All holidays have a purpose, and by common consent the purpose of New Year is crystallized in a promise for reform. At this period the world braces up, takes stock and deter- mines to do better and become bet- ter. Individuals may lapse again into bad habits after vows to throw them off, but the wish to do better, even if followed by brief practice, is encouraging. Persistent trial in the right way may yet bring some New Year that will see permanent amendment in everybody that con- fesses to a need of it. This New Year may have things of pith and moment in store. All years are interesting, but the general lay- out now is for more than the ordinary vol- ume of excitement. Woman suffrage may take a leap toward universality that will frighten men who don’t know just where they stand in the human economy. Some of these who really are sitting may have to struggle to their feet and look around a bit. There are wars and rumors of wars. Who does not hope that another year will see war abolished by the civilization which it disgraces? And there promise to be changes in politics. Some changes in politics are needed. There is still ‘‘graft,’’ but there are ore SLlis Yurn T O R I also inquiries as to where the money really goes. One of the triumphs of this New Year would be a discovery, illustrated by a photograph and succeeded by convic- tion, of that elusive person who so long has defied modern detective methods—The Man Higher Up. To a large number of persons—chiefly men—another matter is paramount. They wonder if the present fashions of women are to continue next summer, with provements”’ natural to hot weather. im- Flapdoodle THE RECENT activity in Washington in favor of woman suffrage—not mentioning the voices in a minor key against it—recalls a report made last June on the proposed amendment to the Constitution by Senator Ashurst, of Ari- zona. If suffrage comes as a national institu- tion—and Jupce thinks it ought to come —it will be realized in spite of Senator Ashurst’s eloquence, and that is some handicap. Mr. Ashurst, in his favorable report, declared that ‘‘smug convention is a cor- A L rosive affluent,’’ and that people ‘should not prefer turgid quietude to the boister- ousness of liberty.’’ He warned the pub- lic against ‘‘an attempt upon the future’s portals with the past’s blood-rusted key,” and he propounded the perhaps to him novel theory that ‘‘woman’s sphere makes her the inescapable conservator of human life, and and she ought to have the vote.”’ One may easily understand the popular- ity of Mr. Ashurst in Arizona. No man who can sling words as he can sling them could fail to awaken the enthusi- asm of the desert and frighten the coyote to cover. Nodoubt many of his constituents waited with bated breath until he should wake ’em up in Washington, and he woke ’em up in this report. “Ain’t it awful, Mabel?’’ A “Corner” HE NEWS comes from Ireland that there is a ‘‘corner’’ in potatoes in this country, which has enforced a quarantine against for- eign tubers for cause. The country housewife, who goes down cellar for a panful whenever she wants potatoes, may keep them ina corner; but the only other corner in sight is the corner vegetable stand, usually presided over by an Italian, who looks the part and who charges about three hundred per cent. advance on wholesale prices. It would be some satisfaction to the consumer to know that this very Italian, a year or two after beginning operations, goes back to Italy, buys a castle and ne- gotiates for a title, if it did not happen that another Italian who needs the money buys out the corner and continues busi- ness at the old stand, one succeeding an- other in an endless chain. comicbooks.com