Judge, 1917-04-07 · page 21 of 28
Judge — April 7, 1917 — page 21: what you’re looking at
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This page mixes poetry, humor columns, and corporate advertising. **Poems & Humor:** The "Easter Witch" poem depicts a flirtatious woman in spring finery charming men. A satirical editorial argues editors deserve a national holiday—not for rest, but because they work constantly, even returning from vacation to mountains of accumulated tasks. Brief jokes mock human folly: an aunt taking measles at sixteen to "get it over with," and a hunter who chased a bear on foot rather than using a rope. **Advertisement:** The dominant content is a Bell Telephone System ad promoting rural telephone service. It contrasts the postal service (requiring farmers to walk distances for mail) with the convenience of phones reaching directly to farmhouse doors. The ad positions the telephone as essential to American farm life and isolation-prevention—essentially corporate propaganda portraying the Bell System as vital infrastructure enabling rural participation in modern society.
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the to nd ar m ty nd ts oe YWUIM Same Little Easter Witch N filigree and satin, In silken hose and patten She trips along as smiling And as dainty as of yore. Ah! she is chic, alluring, Bless me, and so endu: ! My heart she is beguiling With the art she used before, For ages I have seen her In Easterday demeanor Go mincing and as smiling On the same old Easter tide, What's that? She's winking slyly At me—I'm biushing shyly. Is't uncle she’s beguiling? Nope! the fellow at my side. —Horace Seymour Keller. For the Benefit of the State F’® BE IT from us to add anything to our present sense of holiday em- barrassment, but so great is the necessity, so widespread the suffering, so absolutely essen- tial to the well-being of the state is our proposition, that we feel within us the ancient thrill of patriotism when we humbly assert that there eught to be a national holiday for editors. Occasionally we hear of some editor with — | humble and contrite and guilty heart, sneaking away upon a vacation. He does not do this, of course, to enjoy himself, — | because he knows that upon his return he will have to do all the work left behind and probably more; for there are some people in every editorial office so mean that they will wait for years for an editor to steal away for a few days, in order to pile up work for him to do when he returns that | they would not dare face him with. No! He does it because, even among editors, there are still some human traits left— primordial possessions which respond still to the call of the wild. | Every editor is entitled to a holiday, and one in which he can be removed from all of his associations—from his paper, his fellow editors, and above all from his family. He ought to be permitted to go off somewhere once a year and meditate upon his sins. This will give him a change of occupation and enough to keep him busy. Her Extravagance “My Aunt Frettie was in certain waysthe | most extravagant woman I ever knew,” stated the Old Codger. “For example, she got the measles at. sixt cn, when by taking time by the forelock she could just as well have had them at nine.” Leading the Bear Rankin—I had a great hunting last w Phyle—What did you bag? “One day I brought home ten pheas- ants, four rabbits and a big black bear.” “How did you carry the bear?” “T didn’t carry him; I led him.” “With a rope?” “No, in a foot race.” trip of Service ing towns and villages. One-fourth of the 10,000,000 telephones in the Bell System are rural. They reach more places than there are post offices. Along the highways and private lanes the telephone poles lead straight up to the farmer's door. He need not stir from the cheerful hearth ablaze in winter, nor grope along dark roads at night for friendly news or aid in time of trouble. Right in the heart of his home is his tele- phone. It is the American farmer's key to the outside world, and in no other country is it found. Standards In rural communities clusters of mail delivery boxes at the crossroads evidence Uncle Sam's postal service. Here the neighbors trudge from their homes—perhaps a few yards, perhaps a quarter mile or so—for their mail. Comprehensive as is the govern- ment postal system, still the service rendered by its mail carriers is neces- sarily restricted, as the country dweller knows. Long before rural delivery was es- tablished the Bell System began to link up the farmhouse with the neighbor- AMERICAN TELEPHONE AND TELEGRAPH COMPANY AND ASSOCIATED COMPANIES One System Universal Service , One Policy ’ which appears in the first and third issues each month LESLIE’S TRAVEL BUREAU (iin gres ait information “to. those who. are planning to travel at home or abroad. Correspondents are requested to state definitely their destination and time at which the proposed trip is to be made. This will facilitate the work of this bureau. Stamps for reply should be enclosed. Address Editor Travel Bureau, LESLIE'S WEEKLY, 225 Fifth Avenue, New York City. Your dealer knows Faultless mas] Night Shirts | 7 give | maximum rt) comicbooks.com