Judge — December 27, 1919 — page 16: what you’re looking at

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Joux \. Sterner, Pr, Pexsrron Maxwett, £ Deven by Henmax Pataren Judge Revses P. Steicuer, S. J. A. Watros, £ NINETEEN-TWENTY HE world faces 1920 with a black eye—two of them, in fact, for the high cost of living has closed one and the threat of universal Bolshevism the other. But black eyes are always the sign of fighting blood. The coddle in its struggles in its upward human race has never been a molly wi he giant jinxes that cross its p climb—and if you don’t believe that it is climbing up- ward in spite of its present battered old mug you are ina yourself than the glorious old Human Race! n was some year; as more scars worse W Nineteen-ninet than medals; more rags tha rations on its breast; more hum bug than wisdom to its credi It might be called the marine among the years came near sinking the Lusit of civilization. But we beat the machinations of his Satanic Maj jesty, the Von Tirpitz of the rid, and we are ready for an- er supreme tussle with him in 1920 So cheerup and strengthen the knuckles in yourold backbone, for the worst is probably yet to come! We have a hunch straight from our own private ouija board that 1920 is going to be the year of the Big Dawn—no millennium or anything as dull as that, buta year in which we shall begin to build the great symphony of the future. From jazz we may go into melody. Coming down to brass tacks, we mean that Bunk will get it in the neck all along the line and the human race will recover its breath Happy New Year! Throw away that grouch! Iron out your wrinkles and laugh with the gods. ‘They are not worried; why should you be? eco- we Drawn by A. T. Mimack La Vacuum Apartments ror WINTER AND SUMMER 16 Editorials E. Rottaver, Treasurer Grant EB. Hasttox, dr: rary Editor Lawton Macwatt, Ma ‘The Rear Reason HY do men marry? “For a good cook,” says \ the man whose digestion has suffered from frequent and injudicious dining at cheap cara- aries. “For a home,” says the man who never had a home. “I don’t see why anybody on earth out- side of myself should marry,” says an ardent youth on the eve of his wedding. ‘But / have the best reason in the world. Have you seen her?” Which is absurd. Look at your Bible. In h } Adam lost a rib, didn’t he? the whole male population of the world, past, present, and to come, lost a rib. This rib became Eve, and every one of Eve's female descendants me man’s lost rib. It is natural for a man to wish to get back that which belongs to him. So he marries. Marriage is the process of regaining a lost rib JupGreLets The difficulty with the world’s best books is the general lack of a cultivated and educated taste. The only way the average man can tell that his wife's clothes are fashionable is by the size of the bills The difficulty with love re- sides in the people who become lovers. The epigrams of the Greeks were good, and hence we know their women were not. Now that Kentucky has gone dry we can expect her most pop- ular song to be Home to Our Mountains. comichooks.