Judge — June 25, 1921 — page 16: what you’re looking at

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weir, £ ‘on Max Maen Names ror Wives APT attention is being given to the campaign of the Lucy Stone League to popularize the use of unmarried married women When a bank balance or a marketable fame is attached to a maidenly or un names by maidenly name it must not be mislaid carelessly. It then is a practical asset But the proposition has other facets. scintillating with Dr. Jekyll-Mr. Hyde flit tings, suggestive of self-determined friski- ness rather than marital felicity The male of the species respondeth being stunned by the dizzy whirl beloved toward the A few old Epictetuses softly wail in aban doned misery. Here and there a Peter the Hermit tremulously pulpiteers. Some times an editor pipes deprecatingly in a minor key that dwindles off to a whisper But nobody hears and ne Kis met—it is fate—or robustious words to that effect Woman is resurgent, He feels by instinct that cabulary ot f his dawn of a new day ody cares. man any profuse now would seem peevish. He restrains the unfettered and ungallowsed tongue of ages with the pent self-repression of innocuous desuetude. He thinks this Having himself lost the lead on the cow-path, it show fat-wittedness for him to glow with sulphurous virility. The animated en «people listening to the children of Miss Jones ex plain that their father is Mr. Robinson is but a simple incident—until it becomes complex when Mr. Robinsc his right to an alias. Once this custom is popular, it will harden into law—which is nothing but habits with a pedigree. If this reform spreads and sticks, the social register will read like the roll-call at a foundlings’ home, and the city directory will be scurrilous and scandalous. shows his wisdom. would only n of n also asserts Tue Poet Laureatesuip Arrives NEBRASKA has officially appointed a State Poet Laureate. With the pioneering instinct still strong, the West plucks from the old world a precedent to d Art Director J. A. Watpros, Associate Editor embellish the rampant path of literary legislation. Emulation may be sluggish. but it is sure will choose their sweetest singers of sassa- fras and City aldermen and the overseers of the poor will appoint their Soon our village boards sage ficial bards, so that the proceedings may tinkle and odes soar like skylarks. Critics have been long bemoaning the deterioration of our literature. But now that it has a goal full in public sight, it will surge irresistibly into rhyme and poli tics, Bryants and Poes will lie behind every bush. utterable The popular emotions will become and many clerks now unknown will stop weighing out indifferent sugar to write astonishing verse. The uncultivated genius for publicity, fully developed by our shrinking poets, will now blossom under the sunny radiance of that competition which is the life of trade. For, with public office as a reward, we shall have millions of literary lights where but one shone before. The consecrated energy of the soul, now dissi- never pated upon mere contemplation, will be awakened with a whooping canvass for votes. Legislative bodies may inaugurate but inevitably democracy will elect its laureates on the party ticket in the regular campaign. But, alas, even the most royal prerogative cannot add to the butt of a glass of beer. the custe perquisites a wine nor Co-eps Curturinc Commerce COLLEGE girls are turning towards our commerce. The influx of girl graduates in the Fall promises to inun: date our business offices with stenograph. ers de luxe The the wire may not be sweeter; but its modulations will be at tuned with the tact of good breeding. The typewriter may not click swifter; but the orthography and phrasing of the corre spondence will share in the uplift move- ment. The files may not be more acces sible; but they will yield their secrets with meek alacrity to the hand trained to bring forth hieroglyphics from the palcozoic age. The urbane sifting of the benchers in the outer-office; the poise with which careworn voice on the office boy is dethroned; the calm un- hitching of the boss from half his load— are minor things. But a little girl can smooth the creases from the face of the zodiac The surface of business may be hard; but its judgment is too sound to welcome the college girl with an intelligence test. test could tell what a graduate knows, and no girl could tell half her knowledge on a piece of paper. Business has many mysteries still unsolved. It hopes to dis cover why the efficiency of the force sags after lunch, why Mr. $ suit of clothes ten years, why every member chwab can wear a of the force attributes the success of the firm to his own merit, and why the reason ing powers wane and the pugnacious facul ties wag when the boss and the union committee endeavor to argue. Certain sardonic interrogators may ask why the college girl could find nothing more profitable than to follow the college man. It may be that the professions are unprofitable—or there is a deliberate propaganda to further cement the partner. ship between commerce and culture—and it is not utterly impertinent to suppose that the law of gravitation still operates, and that maids must c the bridegroom cometh. © where “No Smoxinc ALLoweb” [NSIDIOUSLY, but with quiet passion, the professional reformers are hard at work on their task of snatching tobacco from the mouths of the unregenerate. You may tilt back your chair and blow smoke rings into the warm azure safe in the belief that come what may your soothing weed will never be wrenched from your fingers. o law, you inced, can put a ban on your pipe, separate you from your cigarettes or make it impossible for you to purchase a cigar. Hail to myopia! You said the prohibi- tion of liquor never could be realized in this great liberty-loving country. It simply couldn’t happen. When you woke up one morning to find it a fact, you were aghast Are you prepared to renew the experience in the coming prohibition of smoking throughout these limited States? are con