Judge — October 7, 1916 — page 4: what you’re looking at

Machine-transcribed from the original scan — historical spelling and the odd misread are preserved.

The Reformer HE reformer is always born into the world at a time when the world is not ready for him. If the world were ready for him, then he would not be a reformer. It gives him great pain to see the world in such a condition and he can never quite understand how it got that w But he has no trouble at all to find a way to fix it. ing it requires the world to stop what it is doing and listen to the reformer. Having listened to the re- former carefully, the world must then go and do what the reformer tells it to do. When the reformer starts out upon his career, his task looks easy because the world looks very small to him. But as he goes along, he becomes more and more appalled at the tremendous number of people on the face of the globe and the wide divergence of their opinions and his own. A reformer is always young, because nobody has strength enough of body and spirit to reach a ripe old age scolding the world and having it pay no attention to him. hour day for the President of these United States. 7). Cs IHERE has come a great change in the whole matter of styles during the last few years. We have now reached the point where styles are no longer the style. That is to say, if you want to be in style, you must carefully eschew any- thing that is in style. Of course this makes of shopping nothing but a contin- ual search for something you can’t find, and, of course, this consumes a tremen- dous amount of the time of worthy wives and daughters; but that is no objection. Life is such a bore these apathetic days that anything, no matter how futile, that gets rid of time is a blessed boon. Iconoclasm Captain John Smith didn’t save the life of Pocahontas. The egg never stood Columbus on his head—maybe the price of it did, though. Blessed if we believe Cock Robin killed the sparrow! FIFTY-FIFTY Lula—Poor Jack Broker is always worrying about the money market. Lorraine—And Mrs. Jack is always worry- ing about the market money. Sixes and Sevens CONFESSED murderer out in west- ern New York retracted when they told him he'd be electrocuted. Being a murderer doesn't make a man want to be a solecism. 2 A woman in the White River country has bought a new-fangled washing machine which hooks to a rocking chair and does the week's washing.—Linneus, Mo., Bulletin. Somebody please invent 2 1916 steering gear stork? 2 When you sce a pretty domestic in a home it's a sure sign that the head of the family isn't henpecked.—Omaha World Herald. Henpecked? The head of the family? She's blind! & What has become of the old fashioned steer that grew cheaper cuts?—Chicago S. Uncle Sam swapped him for the 1916 steering gear. Divorce is not necessarily discreditable.— Louisville Courier Journal. Discreditable? Why, the alimony is credit at the bank. * “Don't wed the men, Suffragist leader's slogan But if you don’t, how can you? fight’ them!” Noah Webster honestly thought ap- prehension means arrest. But then, Mr. Webster never met Mr. Villa. ‘ Sometimes the soldiery penetrates the enemy's line only to find it was a line of talk. ¢ What statesmanship needs is @ lot less sense of sound and more sound sense. comicbooks.conmu