Judge — February 14, 1914 — page 4: what you’re looking at

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A Tale of a Lost Dog . THE AMENITIES of journalism are im- proving all the time. Interchanges of courte- sy are now common where a few years ago rival newspapers breathed fire and brim- stone at one another. Even in New York a generation or so ago the great editors enjoyed nothing so much as a controversy on purely personal grounds, and such is the depravity of hu- manity that their readers entered into the spirit of the thing and would rather read conflicting vituperation than the news. There are still editors in rural places whose newspapers are distinguished by local rivalries in which genteel billings- gate flows unceasingly, and their readers gria and smack their lips over verbal hot stuff that libel laws would recognize if those laws were not suspended by consent of the editors concerned. There was a happy discovery the other day in New York, when the dog of one great editor was found through an adver- tisement ina rival newspaper. The dog was lost by Mr. Ochs, of the Times. Mr. Ochs advertised the dog in the Herald as well as in his own paper, and the Herald found the canine, much to the qualified pleasure of its owner, who would have wished success for his own advertisement. The Herald has long been known for its unique discoveries, and Mr. Bennett at this juncture is probably more pleased over the recovery of Mr. Ochs’ dog than he was when Stanley, representing the Herald, found the lost Livingstone in Darkest Africa. If this thing had happened in New York forty years ago, these great editors would at once have entered into a con- troversy after the dog had been restored. That is to say, if one great editor had lost a dog and advertised it in a rival paper—which at that time would have been impossible—as well as in his own, and the rival paper had restored his dog, he would have launched at his rival the statement that his own paper did not cir- T O R I culate among dog catchers, or insinuated that his rival had stolen his dog. But these are different times, with different newspaper manners, and Mr. Ochs is prob- ably as pleased to get his dog as Mr. Ben- nett is to be the medium of its recovery. Jupce doffs its dicer to both. Brief Decisions ONE part of humanity not only doesn’t know how the other part lives, but doesn’t really care. The janitor is apt to regard an oil heater in an apartment as a reflection on his industry or his integrity. is} Deep-rooted convictions may sometimes be dug up. Success may ruin some persons, but that does not deter the strugglers up the ladder. If those who dance nowadays don’t pay the fiddler, they have to square things with the waiter. A. eet a It’s very easy to fall into a financial hole. G If all ideals should be attained, stagna- tion would ensue. Clubs, diamonds and spades are trumps as the cards decree on the deal, but there are few games in life in which hearts do not dominate. Oo Milady’s age is often marked down. Ge A NoEssential Difference X FRENCH fashion correspondent of an English magazine, writ- ing about “‘The Evil Spirit of Fashion,” comments upon the weak and fragile aspect of ‘smart’? young women met in fashionable places in Paris, They ‘‘walk in a sort of debile way, oscil- lating on extremely high heels, their short steps punctuated by stumbling. The shoulders are convex, the necks bend, the chests sink, the waists extend forward.” Something of this is also seen in New York, where young women ape the French style of public deportment. Even young women in whom vital health cannot be disguised affect the languid habit, and appear all the more ridiculous for their pretense. Never before has so much eccentric at- tention been paid to attire, make-up and manner by young women. A cable in the New York Times the other day from Paris told that fashionable women of St. Peters- burg were even painting tiny figures of animals on their faces and necks, prob- ably assuming that in the case of striking natural beauty such contrasts as these impositions enforce enhance its charm. Women at all times have been more or less eccentric in their fashions, following the changing edicts of those who make it a business to enforce one mode after an- other; but a scanning of all the varied and amusing notions as to dress put into practice for centuries, as the archives of history and fashion preserve them, will fail to reveal anything more grotesque than the present fashions disclose, when associated with the hobbled, hopping walk, the contorted carriage and the im- pression that some of the young creatures impart that they will break into the tango in just a moment. And still, what is the essential differ- ence? The girls seem on the whole, in spite of these temporary handicaps, just as charming as ever, if not even more charming. Nothing can eclipse the magic of beauty and the wonder of youth. comicbooks.com