Judge — January 8, 1916 — page 17: what you’re looking at

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CULTURE C JLTURE is the faculty of reading books which appeal just as much when perused from the last page to the beginning. It is the ability, in a man, to wear delicate whiskers and talk indeterminate things about incomprehensible topics. Ina woman, it is the ability to wear flowing garments and speak softly and knowingly about airy symptoms of inexplicable impos- sibilities. The great charm about this kind of culture is that neither the talker nor the talkee need bother to try to understand what is said. Yet both are benefited, for each feels himself or herself under- stood at last. Culture, therefore, is bestowed upon people in the proportions each is best able to carry. The common or garden variety of culture, which has to do with a gentle regard for the thoughts, opinions and wishes of others, and with an ordinary enjoyment of the human side of books, pictures and the world in general, is too easily attained to be of interest to the folk who adopt the other form of culture.—Wilbur D. Nesbit. 4 THE ENCORE FIEND IN ECLIPSE HE INROADS of the film on the audiences of the legitimate theater quite naturally lead on to the query: “What has become of the encore fiend?” One can imagine how ill at ease this variety of fiend must be in the presence of those silent dramas that go right along, as surely as fate, without an instant’s pause. How it must irritate his proud soul not to be able to smite his mighty hands together and call back the: performance for an encore at the slightest pretext. For now- 4 adays, though he try his maddest palm smiting, he cannot fetch so The Poet—It is but a step from the sublime to the ridiculous. much as a single curtain call. The Girl—Watch your step! Somehow we cannot help but feel sorry for the encore fiend in these days, much as we used to hate him before the film shows came. _ had proved himself to be a true economist. He filled his place well He was an honest, hard-working soul, and he blistered his hands in and noisily, but if the legitimate drama does come back full-pano- expressing approval of what he looked upon as art. Besides, he ex- _ plied, as its devotees prophesy, let us hope the encore fiend does not emplified the doctrine of getting a lot for one’s money. If he could come with it.—Arthur Chapman. stretch a two-hour performance to two hours and forty-five minutes, T through the mere act of bringing one palm against the other and Coincidence securing certain dynamic effects thereby, he could not be blamed for “It is positively disgusting the way these colleges scatter around fecling that he had extracted the ultimate from his two dollars and ‘y Tom, Dick and Harry who has achieved a little cheap notoriety can figure on having one thrust upon him. The whole system is absolutely indefensible. Don’t you think so?” scornfully asked Grumps. Yes, I didn’t get one, either,” calmly rejoined the other. Childish Perplexities 1 often hear my father say (He thinks I am asleep), “The steak, Ma, that we had to-day Would make a tinker weep.” They scold me if I even sigh, Then why may grown-up tinkers cry? Proof Unnecessary Rev. Blox—Then you don’t honestly believe that Jonah was swallowed by a whale! His son—Sure, dad. I'd believe any- thing of a jonah. A Sinecure “Santa Claus only to good boys comes!” El, Said Willie's prim Aunt Lizzie. A J £ “If that’s the case,” replied the lad, “It is only through sorrow that one arrives at perfection. “ Quite so—I tried out six cars, “He's not kept very busy.” before getting a good on —Tennyson J. Daft. comicbooks.com