Judge — June 13, 1914 — page 4: what you’re looking at

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Talking Movies ae]S NOT the ‘talking movie’ a will-o’- the-wisp in invention?’’ asks the New York World. ‘‘Is it not a part of the attraction of the mov- ies that they do not talk?” It is, itis! The mov- ies, next to the circus, are the most popular o form of entertainment R i\ “known to man, woman —\ or child, because there is no dialogue and the pa- trons are under no obligation to keep their mouths shut. A person can talk, sing, cry, whistle or play the harmonica at a photo play, without interfering with his neighbors’ rights and privileges. Boston society people have started a movies playhouse for their own class. The great unwashed will applaud this innovation with vigor. Society people have long needed a theater where they might feel free to carry on the social amenities that some other persons drop when they go to the play. History ISTORY as it is written serves some purpose, but the young would have a far greater number of heroes if history had been written by.persons with the imagination to seize salient facts about the worthies of the world that have been ignored. There have been few great men that lacked the human element so commonly overlooked by your historian. If we had the truth about them, in line with the trend of human interest these days, his- ] tory would be far more interesting, and few boys would require a bribe to master its facts. The young mind is always candid, and it is refreshing to know its tendencies, There is a Children’s Village near Dobbs Ferry, on the Hudson, and its solicitous custodians the other day asked the young community if it would not like to have a visit from President Wilson. With one voice the lads replied, ‘‘We would rather have Matty.’’ It is hardly necessary even here to add that ‘Matty’ is a famous baseball pitcher. Is it not a pity that the persons of as- sumed greatness who figure in the history of the world did not have as chroniclers ana of their doings—feats and achievements at which adults may wonder, while over them the young yawn—writers like the reporters of baseball and other sports, with which age as well as youth is con- cerned to-day? An Efficiency Lesson? A MAN living on the banks of the Hud- son reports that he has a chicken with three legs that is worthy of note. The age of the chicken has not been given, but it is old enough to get out in the morning with its less favored associ- ates and scratch for the things that make chickens grow. And this chicken with three legs is growing at a speed which makes its companions look like a brood of a later hatching, just because it can scratch with three legs instead of two, or in emergency it can scratch with two legs and cuff its companions away from a promising prospect with its third leg. There are efficiency experts who might seize upon this episode as a lesson to the inefficient, were there not quite a line of argument on the other side. It is true there is a lesson in it for chickens with but two legs, to the effect that such chickens ought to get to the feeding ground before any chicken with three legs appears in the offing; but even such a lesson would be wasted on the average flock, owing to the scarcity of chickens with three legs and the ability—thanks to a lavish Nature—to keep them all going at once. If this chicken turns out to be a rooster, and its owner is given to that barbaric sport known as cock fighting, there may be some excitement in that neighborhood later, Such a rooster in Mexico would give a pause to revolutionary or other activities, with bets running about three to two. And such a rooster on a boarding- house table would cause a diversion that might pass into a tradition. But if this chicken should turn out to be a pullet, it cannot enter into disastrous competition with its associates, no mat- ter how industriously it may scratch and scrap. Nature may have provided it with a superfluity of legs, but when eggs are in question it may be said to be on equal terms with other producers of that prime article of commerce. comicbooks.com