Judge — May 6, 1916 — page 4: what you’re looking at

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Sophisticated HE mind of the junior of to-day i proof against the impact of novel! Novelty has disappeared. Nothing st prises; nothing causes enthu- siasm. Aston- ishment at the astonishing vanishes, it be- ing patent to youth in par- ticular that there is really nothing new under the sun! Come to think of it, isn’t this reason enough for taking all things as a matter of course? And if there is nothing to feaze one, why should not the marvels of discov- ery, invention, science, economics, be ac- cepted as sine qua non? Because, on the other hand, we have to inquire further: What would “flappers” (both sexes) of to-day think and do if they were dependent on tallow dips instead of electric lighting? horse-cars for automobiles? negro-minstrels in place of the incomparable movie? It is plain that nothing less than such visible transformation would elicit a response of normal interest from the young person of the period if thus primitively conditioned. Nothing less than some feature to upset the accustomed routine of present-day conve- niences would leave the least impress on the sophisticated adolescent mind. Whew, the pity of it! For it is a pity when our promising successors fail to rise to the point of novelty which we in our ele- mentary experience enjoyed as novelty. We know what they miss. And though they do not know, they nevertheless miss something which gives to life an irrefutable charm: And without charm where are we? and what is life? Tips GIRL who makes a hit with the oppo- site sex is usually knocked by her own. If all of us thought twice before we spoke there would be very little conversation. Opportunity makes the man, and woman ofttimes makes the opportunity. It’s rarely the man who looks backward who gets a turned head. A man needn't be undersized to enable us to talk over his head. HIS BETTER HALF 2g L Extra-Judicial Comment MERICANS will give any financial reform a fair trial so long as it doesn't reduce public expenditures 2 Some Dr. Cook of statesmanship, some military Peary, may discover the way to end Mexican banditry—but they'll have to show us their Eskimos. So poker has judicial and dictionary vindica tion from the charge that it is gambling.—The Sun. Poker delivers its rewards to the duly designated candidates as accurately as a direct primary. The one real game of chance is the estate of wholly alimony. A A statesman, according to Thomas Brackett Reed, is a dead politician. Poli- ticians have an appallingly low death rate. ¢ Congressman Shallenberger of Nebraska wants to put an embargo on the exportation of gasoline, to conserve the home product. Here's Nebraska pacifism! No gasoline— no joy rides—no hairbreadth, hair raising pedestrian escapes—talk about the horrors of war. 2 There is only one virile, decisive militantly righteous character in American public The Emporia Gazette Only one! What’s the matter with Kansas? ife— * Friendly campaign clubs in hyphenate districts might make it the Waitful Watch on the Rhine. e Senator Tom Taggart of Indiana comes from the French Lick—it’s his appointment comes from the boot lick. a - comicbooks.com