Judge — August 9, 1919 — page 16: what you’re looking at

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Drees by Heaman Pate JUDGE EDITORIALS Joux A. Scercner, President Revsen P. Sreicner, Secretary Peratron Maxwett, Editor J. A. Watpros, Literary Editor Grant E. Hasitton, Art Director Lawton Mackatt, Managing Editor A. E. Routaver, Treasurer Mirtu Unconrinep HEN Prohibition began to resemble a stubborn fact the sympathy of joke- readers for joke-makers became evident. ‘The joke-reader is always more or less concerned as to supplies. And he thought that one of the greatest and most time-honored assets of the joke-maker had become a liability when “booze” was to be discontinued. But the joke-maker keeps up his work with “booze” just the same. In a reactionary sense, it is still one of his prime subjects. He finds that men still stagger for some reason semi-mysterious, and show signs of imbibi- tion. Hotels are raising their rates to points embar- rassing to guests because of the abolition of their bars, and thus the jokesmith may let his fancy play both about what might have been as well as the added sub- ject of the high cost of living The extrinsic nature of cabarets as adjuncts to eat- ing-places was long a subject of the jester, but he finds new material in the fact that cabarets really were in- trinsic, for the restaurants that boasted cabarets are shutting their doors one by one on the ground that they cannot make the business pay without these de- vices. All this is legitimate material for wheezes, and the general melancholy with which the process of ing is now achieved in the absence of ancient alimentary aids is another subject of jest harking back to “booze. The names of new drinks and their experi- mental effects, as well as the uses to which drinks formerly shunned are put, so furnish paragraph- ers and jesters with un- limited material, and thus it goes. There is no in- novation in life that will not supply the humorist with material for his wit. Drown by Nowsas Axtnosy Orv Car. Barnacce JUDGELETS HE collective genius of the nations takes various forms. The collective genius of the French people takes the form of wit. In the English it is individual liberty. In the Russian it is slumming in his own ego. The Irish symbolizes his genius in the shillelah. The Italian exudes his genius in gesture. The genius of the American is obedience. . . * There is nothing much doing in the clinging vine line, nowadays, but we know a woman who believes that her husband knows what a mandatory is. * * * 1910 For rent, five-room apartment with sun parlor. 1919 For rent, cozy two- and three-room apartments. 19 For rent, very select hal room apartment. Profound as is our respect for Woodrow Wilson— notonly on account of the exalted office he now holds but also because of his high personal character—we may be permitted to observe that George Washing- ton was distinguished for his unimpeachable and invariable accuracy of statement. We hope this remark is not tact- less. . . No bootblack ever learned the art of shining from the moon. * . The man who boasts now that he is a bour- geois will be saying next that he a tine and soon he will be both. akes Ur Motorinc comicbooks.com