Judge — March 6, 1915 — page 4: what you’re looking at

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Another Exception N THE senses dealt with philosophically by Izaak Walton, women are not good fishers. At least that is the common opin- ion of men who are anglers, and who go alone, or with one another, to lure fish. Sometimes, it is true, a woman may be found fish- ing with her husband. But in such case she isfardeeper in her husband's confidence than most women are in the confidence of their men kind, or the husband has some ulterior object, or she is an expert at the game. If she be an expert at the game, she is the exception that proves the contrary tule. That women are good fishers of men goes without saying. They were that before good Izaak Walton ever fished, and they will be the same when ‘‘The Compleat An- gler’’ is no longer a text-book, but merely a literary curiosity to an unfishing world, because fish will have disappeared from the ken of man and the waters of the earth. And even thereafter. Women, who are successful with men, are apt to frighten fish. And female chil- dren would seem to be even less desirable as companions to fishermen. But here again comes an exception to the rule. In Brook- lyn, recently, a young woman inherited half of the considerable estate of a man who was an inveterate fisherman, and who took her as a child in his boat because she could be company in his pursuit and sit still. In other words, he left the young woman some $25,000 simply because she did not ‘as a child scare the fish. Little by little the occult matters in human nature are disclosed—sometimes by painful study, and sometimes by accident. Here is an item that belongs to the general science of humanity. And yet most chil- dren taken on fishing trips will still ache to rock the boats. Loafing HERE are three classes who loaf: those who like to, those who have to and those who hold high-salaried positions. Loafing is not like other professions; it requires no extended period of training. The merest tyro can loaf to perfection; a novice can loaf as beautifully as a post- graduate loafer. Thus it is that so many men, who have finally found themselves, do nothing but loaf. As viewed by loafers, the statement that Satan always finds mischief for idle hands to do is ab- surd, They realize that as soon as one finds some- thing to do, he is no longer loafing. Hence the feeling of perfect secu- rity which goes with loaf- ing. Instead of the slipshod, haphazard way of leaving it all to chance, parents are beginning to take the view that their children should be brought up to become real, Simon-pure loafers. Half a loafer is better bred than no loafer at all. He who loafs never makes but one mistake, and that mistake is the mistake of making no mis- takes. Brief Decisions HE young fool and the old fool have more than years between them. A peculiarity of certain cranks is that they cannot be turned. A man who is in society and wants to keep in must be continually going out. NEVER TURNED DOWN “The magazines are always willing to accept my stuff."’ “You are an author—or a poet, perhaps?" “No; Tam an ad writer.”