Judge — April 19, 1919 — page 14: what you’re looking at

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= EEE Joux A. Suetcner, President Revsen P. Sreicuer, tary :. Pererron Maxwett, Editor J. A. Warpros, Literary Editor Kip anp THe Wortp Kips Wirn You der INCE Pharaoh’s day, and before, the gentle art of kidding has been sedulously practised, th individually and collectively—by kit peasants, premiers and nations. The verb to. in arms a have won new been graduated from the field of the Newer Woman. 1 ‘Three hundred students of Vassar recently rose out food. These girls, having undertaken Grant Lawton Mackaut, 4 note for the ins ul work during the war. By that work they have Director Editor ~ Hasinton, ¢ yn by their won- the New Woman to kid is a modern invention and purely American. for the ne masculine vocations in relation to war It expresses much more than such idiomatic words a work, no doubt developed asculine appetites. It F “jolly” and “spoof.” Only a supreme egotist can suc- is too much to imagine, perhaps, that girls used to cessfully kid himself; only a whole people, German) as a shining example, can kid itself into the belief of and other sured safety while the civic roof burns over its head. corned beef The fatuous politician kids himself that his follower the so unanimously demand his election to office because the love him; the second-rate actor kids himself into ine belief that the box-office till overflows because luring presence in the cast; the young offic self that Pershing has an eye on him for promotion; the girl with matrimonial ambitions kids herself and her ar mirror that her personal beauty excels that of all her superiority has long been based upon his gustatory ploits and his physical prowess, while for an uncalcu- The professional kidder works to undo the self- lated period woman was weak be id in the act kids was measured to subordination and leisure. ‘The Newer All kidders are Woman, trained as she now is, is a match, physically rivals. And so the whole world kids itself alon, kidding propensities of his victim a himself that he is a devil of a fellow the habit and the traditions of cream puffs, charlottes fluffy comestibles should now demand and cabba t s that longshorer from their noonday cans, but the d foods for girls who have done his formed it no doubt as well as men could perform it, f r kids him- sibly better than men could—has apparently pass And there is more than mere food in this. Taste 1 habit have potentialities for the future. Man’s and other substantials ven and ironworkers take of unsubstantial men’s work—and_per- ause her nourishment kids at heart and all kidders are of one kidney; to kid as well as mentally for the young man. artistically is to kidnap another's dignity without hurt orrancour. Kid if you must, but let your kidd frankly kittenish and minus the poison that lies hidden in the word that stings and sears. Kidding is sheer con- tumely if it is without the joyousness of the real kid spirit. Meat anno Maiwennoop ASSAR was the name of a fine-spirited and far-seeing man, but for many years it has been associated with feminine charm. Graduates of Vassar have adorned and are adorning va- rious walks of life outside of matrimony, which many of them have distinguished. And students of the college Drown by Russ Westoven “What's that private all swelled up about any medals on him?” in town want to marry him.” He hasn't “Well, you sce he was an army cook and all the girls Young men will discover this as matrimony involves them. This may be hard for a time upon the long dominant sex, but what of future generations? JUDGELETS SENATOR SHERMAN of Illinois describes an ad- viser of Alexander the Great as “the Colonel House of Antiquity.” Can flattery soothe the dull, cold ear of death? . * . The late sixty-fifth Con- gress dissatisfied public ex- pectations co. twice—when it was in sessior and when it wasn't. Cyrus Field wired the seas for fame—Burleson seized the wires for a game.