Judge — August 5, 1922 — page 20: what you’re looking at

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As We Were Saying BY ‘ ARTHUR H. Fo.we.i Nature STupIEs BY W. E. Hie The Physical and the Cultured hing suits IRLS in one-piece ; champions at this or that distance, re no longer to have things all their own way in the newspapers. —For- midable competition has appeared. Up to this summer, Sunday articles on “the perfect. figure” had to be illustrated in just one way; a pictorial comparison of the Venus de Mile Miss Gertie Girth, with a dotted line diagram giving “per- fect” measurements from neck to ankle. Gertie and her one-piece pals have been getting a lot of publicity. In fact, they had about cornered it. But of late there have appeared in pictorial journal- ism a multitude of young women with limbs just as lithe. They may not go as near the water, but their photographs serve ev bit as well in illustrating those helpful) Sune articles about physi culture and women in sport. The wide old gymnasium bloomer is as defunct as the hoopskirt, and in its place the pho- tographer substitutes an athletic girl in scant. knickers or running. trunks. like brother wears. Newspaper readers, ar- dently devoted to the great. cause. of physical culture, may study the subject from a variety of angles (and curves), high-jumping — knick le-vaulting step-ins, cross-country pantalettes, extra- stout shot-putters, ‘The tennis players do the best they can when a photographer is present, but they are seriously handicapped by clinging to the skirt habit. As for the champion swimmers, th have chance to regain their waning prestige; let them adopt a half-of-one-piece bathing suit when posing for publication. sae Apparently, there is no such thing as an Anti Ship's Saloon League. “Like brother wears” Pickett’s charge was staged for Presi- dent’ Harding at) Gettysburg. — Profiteer’s charge is being staged for the public at Washington, in the new tariff bill. ttt Exit the Coxswain HE little boy (weight, ninety-two pounds) who sits at the feet of the varsity crew when it has its picture taken, is in danger of losing his job. The little hoy is the coxswain, that packet of pep and pluck who the shell and splashes water on fainting giants in the last mile of the race. Take a good look at him, for his seat will soon be vacant. If submarines may be st do by radio from a shore base, why not ing shells at New London or Poughkeepsie, or in the nat regatta of the Amateur Row- ing Association? Then the question of the coxswain’s weight will not matter. steers: His heft’ will make no difference—100 pounds or 300—for he will not be in the he ‘Who is) that) enormous man?” an awed visitor at training quarters will ask. “That? Oh, that’s Cupid Claney, our coxswain.” member of the crew will reply. “He'll sit on the end of the float and steer us to-morrow: best) coxswain on the ri great little jollier, too; keeps a crew right up to its work every minute with a lovely line of Bed-time Stories.” And Cupid Claney the size of Chief Justice Taft in his Oxford gown! \ great day is opening to oarsmanship now that coxswains may be chosen irre- spective of weight. The ‘varsity. shot- putter, or the right guard on the eleven, will be perfectly eligible, though he weigh as much as a portable js And, come to think of it, why not cut out jockeys, too—for weight is a factor there—and steer race horses by radio? Bi 1s Ab-sol-ute-ly Free MONG the show sights of New York CL ix the old) Australian prison shi ukly. are giving it a fre as it may. The vene E Dut be that torture hulk has two decks of dark cells, we able wax figures of their r the city man on could be better than say, two days ina would thus aceus- airy room” of The wax figure rb would not disturb him, an tenanted only by former occupants. reation bent, wh a preparatory course o! prison ship cell? I tom himself to the the avera in prison less he was nervous or toc imaginative. And the atmosphere between decks would steel him to those “cool nights of refresh- ing Hf which hotel booklets speak. Like the ‘for which he is heading, the prison ship is “electrically lighted throu out, To clinch the prepi sure, the summer boarder in might persuade the ship showman to let him bring his wife and baby and a couple of trunks into the cell, nd there practice “dressing for dinner” with the thermometer at ninety and a thunder- storm coming up. Summer pleasures would have no terrors for a man thus hardened. If this be advertising, make the most of it. ssummer inn, ation, to make it prospect THe Sargasso Sea was a sort of slow whirlpool in the Atlantic where ships were supposed to go around and around, powerless to get out. “Wet” tourists on Shipping Board vessels hope they. will have the luck to drift into it. Saying and Telling Brooklyn bride who on being “Do vou take this man? Il say Ido, * merely ck » service to the level of modern The bonds of matrimony made speech, her no slave to convention, and most likely she chewed gum beneath her bridal veil. Let the modernizing work go on. “Tl say I do” Our fathers’ ways were too prim, too formal, for the present generation. Let reform penetrate even the dusty, tradi- tion bound courts of justice, so t when asked by the clerk, “Do you swear that the evidence you give in this case shall be the truth, the wh truth, and nothng but the truth?” a witness may answer with propriety, “I'll tell the world!” comicbooks.com