Judge — November 28, 1914 — page 18: what you’re looking at

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———$—$=_ Belgians Are Starving “He Gives Twice Who Gives Quickly’’ Mivsicorae of Belgians face starvation. They will perish if succor does not come at once. Their plight is desperate. It cries out as imperiously as the wireless S. O. S. from a sinking ship. food have Cable Answers S. O. S. This Belgian Relief Committee cabled $50,000 from big, generous America to Ambassador Page, to use for buying food in England to hurry to Belgium as first aid, and $20,000 was cabled to United States Minister Brand Whitlock, in Brus- sels, and used in the same way. In Brus- sels alone one hundred soup kitchens are feeding 100,009 hungry people. The daily cable dispatches, in unbiased news reports, are giving a continuous account And this call is being heeded. een rushed to the rescue. Fast ships bearing But more must follow. Succor From America In America how different the picture. This magazine will reach its readers just about Thanksgiving time. We have had bountiful harvests and despite rather dull times we have great surpluses of food and money. So 4o national mag- azines are carrying in their Christmas issues this appeal to their millions of readers to succor the starving Belgians. Divide your Christmas plenty with them. Be sure that the gift will be “twice of the appalling disaster and desolation. blessed.” Send a Christmas Check Today Send a check today, before it slips your mind, to J. P. Morcan & Co., 23 Wall Street, New York, and mark it for the Belgian Relief Fund. You will receive a receipt and the money will at once go to the Belgian Relief Committee, which will use it for these two purposes: 1 Torelieve immediate distress of Belgian refugees and the hundreds of thous- ands of destitute women and children and other non-combatants in Belgium. 2 Torehabilitate as soon as practicable the poor Belgian peasant and working classes by helping them get roofs over their heads and tools to work with. BELGIAN RELIEF COMMITTEE 10 Bridge Street, New York Rev. J. F. STILLEMANS, Pre ROBERT W. DeFOREST, Chair EMANUEL HAVENITH, ‘Belgian 3 PIERRE MALL, Consal-General at N HENRY W. CLEVELA’ f Executice Committee, ister to the United States. W. BARCLAY PARSONS BERNARD RAAP. LYMAN ABBOTT OTTO T. BANNARD ARMAND BOTTA CORNELIUS N. BLISS ROBERT S. BREWSTER DE. STE HACHER A. VANDERLIP NYS F y ALFRED T. WHITE HENRY FAIRFIELD OSBORN S.O.S.—Checks, Money Orders, etc., should be made to J. P,. MORGAN & CO., “FOR BELGIAN RELIEF FUND,” 23 Wall Street, and sent to that address Bound Volumes of Judge will hold any number two. Keep a record Here is a leather binder whi of Judges from one copy to fift of the wit and satire of the ti and you will have a volume ¢ ightful humor ,that will afford many hours of enjoyment to you and your children during the long winter evenir Leslie-Judge Co., 225 Fifth Ave., NewYork eS Price $1.50 From a Sinner's Diary A MAN was covering a big, high berg stack ina ripping rain to-day whe I went along, and I said, ‘You can never dry that canvas up there.’’ Seem’s » something must have been bothering hin before that, mad as he flew. I've sent for 375 post-cards. If iy ‘em, I'll have me some. I know a boy who is raising turkeys with four ma-hens and no gobbler. ny. way, he’s going right ahead as if he wu, I'm interested in the report when } takes their census. Last night I played for a barn dance iy abarn. I wore my white tapestry, wig a fringe of meadow larks around the pole. A woman sailed in, primped tp kill—you could see she never failed to é& her teas orcross hereyes. I was Wishing calamity on her, and it came—her skin, fell off! The fiddler has been to the hospital and had his tonsils subtracted, and all life is a purling river to him. He laughs, any way. And if he doesn’t want to announce the coming dances or advertise the lot belt-pin jewels, he lets on his nurse told him he mustn't strain his throat, He talks of her all the time. She sat on the edge of his bed and fed him ice all night That’s what he claims. I guess it was mostly taffy she fed. Little girls there dancing the latest wiggle-waggle—little girls with their broom-handle legs, with their never-roll- in-the-ash-heap primness, with their pinched, pale, forty-year-old, never-smile, tired-eyed faces! They don’t get the fur out of it brother and I used to when the band (fife and drum!) would stop and play in the graveyard Decoration Day, then p> on to town, while we'd go hand in hand into the old cellar, where the other house burned, and bawl because we weren't dead soldiers, with a band playing at 0s, or the band that could go gayly on to town—and we couldn't even tag along!— days with lots of such sickening internal injuries, sandwiched in with glorious frog- ging excursions and such! Heavens! The wild Injuns we cleared the earth of! We must have spared none for these new- model children, with their equators where their arctic circles belong. Lynette Freemire. Which ? How to define a novel, : Where the author has paused, afraid, On meeting a ‘‘situation,”” To call a spade a spade, So fills in the gap ensuing With printer’s stars all in a row: oo. Is it ‘risky’? or asterisky? Now, that’s what I'd like to know! —sarah Redington. Not at All She—Isn’t she a garrulous bore? He—Well, no; because I manage % work out all my next day’s problems while she chatters. pr of va