Judge, 1916-12-23 · page 4 of 32
Judge — December 23, 1916 — page 4: what you’re looking at
What you’re looking at
This is an editorial page from *Judge* magazine featuring satirical commentary on contemporary issues. The top left cartoon shows a hunter with a rifle and dog—likely satirizing indiscriminate hunting or resource extraction. The central illustration depicts a large wheel labeled "THE 'HUB' THAT MAKES THE WHEEL GO 'ROUND" with various figures engaged in different activities, symbolizing the interconnected nature of economic or social systems. The right column, "Sixes and Sevens," contains brief satirical quips on current topics: coal supply shortages, dinosaur fossils' rising market price, wives' poetry, movie realism, Uncle Sam's war efforts, and hunting guides. These appear to be topical references from the WWI era, though specific dates are unclear from the image alone.
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The Lucid Interval HE lucid interval is a wholesome lapse into sanity and accountabil- ity. It may be superinduced by many things, brickbats, rollin pins, grass wid- ows, oil stock, and matrimony, being the most effective. It is impossible for a man to realize the significance of things as they are not until he has had a lucid in- terval or two. One of the best ways to accumulate a full-grown lucid interval is to expect a lot of gratitude from someone you have befriended, your wife, for instance. As you begin to grow bored with protracted expectation, you can feel a peculiar calm- ness settling down upon you. It comes over you very gradually, and when you have ceased to look for anything but trouble and pertinaccous solicitation, this same calmness blossoms forth into a real, living lucid interval. Then you feel like a fool, and you want to kick yourself and pull out your own teeth. But you won't. There is only a limited supply of lucidity in the world. It is usually doled out in small bits. You should be very careful when you have a lucid inter- val. A woman who had one at an auction bridge party not long ago is reported to have lost her social standing and all of her friends before she could control herself. It is best to be alone during your peri- ods of lucidity, for what you do and say is sure to be mis- construed. People as a rule are opposed to clear thinking because of the destructive results. But you need not avoid lucid intervals on this ac- count. In the long run they are worth more than they cost, no matter how exorbi- tant a price you have to pay. Things to Worry About "THAT the coal supply can’t last more than two or three centuries longer. That eternity is just as long in the nether regions of the next world as in the more exalted portions where the climatic and other conditions are more generous. That there is getting to be so much prosperity in this country that even the farmers and the wage workers are trying to get hold of some of it. That if the hair cut off each day in the barber shops of New York City were placed end to end, it would reach from New York to San I co, with a ten days’ stopover at Grand Canyon. That the market price of dinosauruses has risen cighteen thousand per cent. since the palcozoic period. THE “HUB” THAT MAKES THE WHEEL GO ‘ROUND Sixes and Sevens PEAKING of the blues, the beau- tiful blue Danube isn’t a circum- stance to Salt River just after election. 2 There’s a difference between being well informed and knowing it all—Kansas City Journal, When a man knows it all you can get his number without bothering about Information. * A New York judge holds that a wife's writing poctry to her husband doesn’t prove mental incapacity. Not unless he stands for it, anyhow. ¢ A “movie” actor got killed by an auto- mobile the other day—and_ the chances are the scenario man swore at him for not doing it more realistically. 2 Lloyd George says if Uncle Sam tries to stop the war he'll get him- self disliked. E it is, they don’t treat Uncle just like mother’s comfort. 2 Hunters say that there are more deer in the Adirondacks than before the Civil War, but a lot of them get mistaken for guides. 10 LIQBOO 2°Rh 8 Sr There's millions in it for the man who invents a yeast that will make bread rise like the price of it. takes his wife’s advice-—Albany Knickerbocker Press. Doesn’t bravery imply free will rather than husbandage? 2 O. Henry, they say, once “did time.” One of his sen- tences his imitators might hope to equal.