Judge — March 23, 1918 — page 8: what you’re looking at

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Drawn by J. R. Suaver Fatuer—By Jove! Henrietta, | wonder how much longer this war is going to fast? Bonsie—If ye can wait till tomorrow, Papa, I'll ask teacher. Hansel and Grethel—4 Discovery An Abbreviation of a Famous Tale, Showing How the Late Mr. Grimm Insidiously Preached Prussianism to the Young By KenNETH The unhesitating sacrifice of the weaker for the benefit of the stronger. NCE upon a time there dwelt a poor wood-cutter who possessed so little money thatif automobiles had sold for fifty cents, he would have been unable to purchase an inner-tube. He was also the possessor of a wife and two children, Hiinsel and Grethel by name. One day it occurred to the wife, who was a prolific thinker, that if they should take the children into the woods and lose them, there would be two less mouths to feed, so that their expenses would be materially reduced. Procuring a piece of paper and a pencil, she drew diagrams which convinced her skeptical husband that her contention was correct. He immediately led Hinsel and Grethel to the deepest portion of the woods and lost them with great vigor and thoroughness. Total disregard The two children wandered through of invaders for the woods for three days, eating property rights. freely of roots and berries, and hoping industriously that neither of them would try to devour any poison-ivy roots by acci- dent. At the end of the third day they came to a small house built of bread, with a roof of chocolate frosted cake and windows of clear sugar. “Oh, boy!” exclaimed Grethel, pulling off several square yards of roof and biting into it without stopping to enquire to whom the house belonged. As for Hiinsel, he said nothing, but kicked out two window-panes and gobbled them up in his noisy German way. L. RosBerts Any outrage ex- Suddenly the door opened and a very cused by mil- old woman, supporting herself on itary necessity. crutches, emerged and took Hinsel and Grethel firmly by the ear. She was an old witch with red eyes and a taste for human flesh au Bechamel. Hinsel she decided to eat at once; so she threw him into the hen-house,and ordered Grethel to start a fire in the kitchen stove and clean out the frying-pan. When this was done, she commanded Grethel to crawl into the oven and test its tempera- ture. Grethel, however, was nobody’s fool. She ac- cordingly feigned ignorance of the proper method of procedure, and begged the witch to show her what she meant. When the witch opened the oven door and stooped before it, Grethel gave her a swift kick which drove her neatly into the oven. She then slammed the door and allowed the old witch to bake to a crisp. Looting is permis- Grethel immediately released sible; and the loot WHiansel, and they searched the may be enjoyed with- witch’s home, discovering vast outa qualm. All quantities of pearls and jewels. crimes may be for- “These are better than a poke gotten if the pocket in the eye with a pointed has benefited by stick,” said Hiinsel; and he them. filled his pockets with them. Grethel also filled her pinafore; and they ran away laughing. Soon, by great good luck, they arrived at their home. Their mother was dead, but their father was alive and unhappy without them. When his children emptied their pockets of jewels, he