Judge — October 14, 1916 — page 20: what you’re looking at

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And as though it were not enough that the women executed th coup, it mattered not how, the chronicie proceeds “These dames Rr: certain air of elegance to ditching warfare.” i From claiming to be able to give “a certain air of clegance” to th polling place, to claiming that women have already given “a certain ais y elegance” to the trench in war is some wide sweep, and indicates that th Claim Department has outgrown the other features of the Suffrage propaganda. ; Shall we mourn at the spectacle of woman forgetting the tradit modesty of her sex and boldly claiming the lion’s share of human progres! Not at all. Let us rejoice that we know once for all that “modest feminine only by tradition, just as “bravery” is masculine only by traditice When the perfervid orator declaims about the bravery of the true he and the modesty of the true heroine, he is talking hot air and not drs tacks. It is quite as apt to happen that the heroine is brave and the her modest. Modesty and bravery are human qualities and not sex distinct It Creates an Appetite It may be true as the poct claims, that “it is better to have loved ani lost than never to have loved at all,” but it is not true of voting or citizes ship. A taste of political freedom does not soothe. It creates an unquenc able appetite for more. An Uncertain Train Service “GS you tell me anything about the trains going out of here?” ask the traveler of a native who itting flat on the platform of the 12 by 14 railway station with his legs stretched out and crossed while hand supported a sharp elbow peering through a ragged shirt and the o held on to an ancient pipe between his teeth. Removing the pipe he s Wal, you know this hain’t the main line—only a branch an’th trains is some oncertain. There's a train due at 9.17 but it has to wait» here to the junction, nine miles away, fer two other trains an’ the hardly ever on time so it’s usually ten or mebbe ‘leven o'clock ‘fore th 9.17 pulls in. Then there ain’t no other reg'lar train till 3.49 an’ it hast wait at Elmtown fer a train on the main line, an’ mebbe it has to tack on freight car or two at a sidetrack an’ do more or less switchin’ so it ain’t like to pull in here ‘fore ‘long ’bout four-thutty. Then thar’s a six o'clock gow cast but it has to sidetrack for the 5.32 goin’ west ‘bout six miles from he an’ oftener don’t git here on time than it docs on time. ‘Thar’s a 42 express that sometimes coals up here but if it don’t happen to need coal never stops. The midnight stops if you signal it with a red lantern ot has passengers to drop off. Friend 0’ mine set here in a pourin’ rain signal it the other night an’ ‘bout five minutes ‘fore it come along the in the lantern the station agent had give him burned out an’ he c t signal it when it come along. Didn’t blame him fer cussin’ some. The all the trains that runs over our branch an’ you jist have to git ‘em whe —M. M. you kin—see?” Big Town Sayings HY are there so few yellow cats in the Big Town? In the count there is hardly a barn that has not a yellow cat hanging arot Lots of fun is made of the way the hired man bolts h matter of fact he would not count much in the matter of speed até Town quick lunch establishment. . It nearly always follows that when one loses his health in the Bz Town he has to go to the country to find it. One of the most successful architects I know always submits his plans! arage before he shows the plans for the house. . Big Town public improvements always cost about twice what th are worth. A bargain page for asphalt streets will be about the last to appear in the newspapers. No doubt the men who write novels could make a . living and appeal to much larger audiences if they turned their atter to writing automobile log books. When a new family moves into a flat the furniture gets a much inspection than it had when it was purchased. No doubt Mother Nature often longs to take hold of the : fussy park and fix it up right. —Arthur Chapms® the great deal be cleset avert