Judge — November 10, 1917 — page 4: what you’re looking at

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A Too-Particular Grand Jury © reading the formal incictment by the Grand Jury of Frederick County, Maryland, of the short skirt worn by women may glance about to see if the crime thus repre- hended is common in one’s immediate vicinity, or one may impulsively wish to see a group photograph of this particular Grand Jury. The human mind—and the masculine mind is included in the designation—has many angles of thought upon any given subject The short skirt, more than tolerated by most men for some time as an aid to estimates of the outlines of fashionable dears, and recently commended as an economic detail in a time when economy is-mentioned more frequently than ever before, will remain in vogue just as long as those who deeree the fashions intend that it shall remain, Grand Juries or other isolated authorities whose purview is more or less local to the contrary not withstanding. There be men, no doubt, though their real motives might not withstand the acid test of argument —<islike, or pretend to dislike, any revealing fashion for women. But if the matter should be put to a vote, and the ballot, like the ballot now prevailing in political controversies. could be secret, the majority in favor of almost any: style of dress that gives a more intimate idea of lovely woman would be so overwhelming that it might be difficult for future fashion mongers ever to approximate the old style of attire again Woman—bless her!—lives upon admiration 2 Vou'ee spent Christmas away from home It was a dull and dreary day, wasn't it, with your thoughts running back to the holly and mistletoe at home? Just think what it means to those boys in France! Help make their holidays happier with a donation to Juvar’s Trench Christmas Fund that for one or another reason, «haven't you? * More Conservation OONER or later, it had to come, and here itis!) A French editor tells us that if we really want to conserve, we ought to enact legislation to stop the common American practice of throwing rice at wedding couples. At five pounds of rice per welding. he estimates that we waste thousands of tons of rice in this way every year. Our Parisian monitor says nothing at all about throwing old shoes. Maybe he thinks his hint about the rice will be bootless enough. But we can see where this conservation busi- ness is going to lead to all sorts of trouble. If you stop the rice throwing, probably you will inerease the number of weddings; but the more weddings there are, the more divorces there will be—and everybody says there are too many divorces already Surely nobody, not even our French conservation friend, wants to increase the number of divorces, unless he is married himself; and in that case he is prejudiced and his opinion does not count. Better to save less rice if by so doing we can sive more ali- mony Easy Money HILE the House was discussing an additional appropri tion for the Frankford Arsenal, Mr. Dallinger related inci- dents of which he had been informed as to what may happen in the cost-plus-commission contracts let by the Government. “A physician here in Washington,” he said, “told me that he alking with another physician who told him that a patient said to him: ‘Doctor, I have got the softest snap I ever had. I am getting S60 a week from a contractor who has a contract with the Government.’ The doctor said, *That is pretty good. What are you doing?’ ‘I do not do anything except keep out of the way of the Government inspector, and that is not ve hard,” was the reply. Another case that came to my attention,” continued Mr, Dallinger, * was that of a man who was not a carpenter by trade, but who was more or less handy with tools. He got a position as carpenter on one of these cantonments at $7.50 a day and $15 a day on Sundays and holidays, and while they were working some one came along and said, ‘Don’t hurry, bo: And yet “Don't hurry” is the prevailing rule among most workers in private enterprises. Sixes and Sevens PRESIDENT MARSHALL says the trouble is that nobody who knows anything goes to Congress. All the men stay home and discuss the war in the barber Pshaw, Mr. Vice President! After a man pays his n't atford to give the barber a tip on the war ICE wise shops war taxes he even ¢ Matrimony hasn’t been supplanted by: militant feminism, but many a man who thought he could take his pick has to take his picket ¢ ‘ Senator Jim Ham Lewis wants to g President: Wilson dictatorial powers during the recess of Congress, but somehow we thought things would be sort of different when Congress recessed e might expel La Follette from the Senate, but they They Unconstitutional—crucl can't expel him from the headlines and unusual punishment. ¢ Some of our United States senators think we are trenches to chin and not to win e It costs the government $2 a thousand more to make money than it did, but the government would never feel it if all the 110 make was the money it saves. * Russia went into the war to find an egress to the North Atlantic, but she’s in it now to swap egresses for any old exit. in the money it Cail of the wild? Ale. comicbooks.com