Judge — December 8, 1923 — page 29: what you’re looking at

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or ur Santa Claus—Ding bust these dad- Is bimmed radio aerials, anyway! si sat re “I along the old railroad embankment? For as boys to go to see Theda B: as Cleo- of patra openly, in a body, may not be so bit awfully much worse than for them to Vs. read salacious books surreptitiously. He nd complains of certain’ magazines which Is boys buy on the news stands and read las to-day. | Well, we've dipped into. ’em he all, and their stories bear a striking resem- ry. blanee to the stuff we used to sneak into on our rooms —all of us—thirty years a he hought right in the Boston and Maine oy station, at the news stand. mut Not that we hold a brief for mod: ase PE parents. They cer » do not Ps their sons as good a cl as our pi sous. But we vi timid) t that it is not quite for the re . Stearns assumes. It isn’t because » has made women “unwomanly.” It isn’t because marriage and the home are going to smash, or literature and the to the dog: It is because stage our * mechanized civilization has got ahead of ya us all, out of control. The boys who come to Mr. Stearns’ school to-day have } never had to fill the coal hod or the wood ) box. ‘They have never had to face the disciplining realities of life. They haven't we and ous different light when I’m married. shades for wedding presents as I did. First Sweet Thing—Yes, I suppose I shall look at everything in a very Second ditto—You certainly will, my dear, if you get as many lamps and had to because their parents h pered, or lived in flats with a janitor to| do all the chores, and li as been | physically easy and mentally slothful and | hence morally relaxing. The job of Andover, and all other schools and col-| leges, is to teach us not so much that| woman’s place is the home or that the Cosmopolitan is sinful, that created a material prosperity we don’t know how to teach us how to make our prosperity minister to our souls | as well as our bodies. Mr. Stearns” indorsement of ¢ Leonard Wood as a great Ameri der makes some | of us not a trifle skeptical about the head- | master’s own visioning of this problem. Beating plowshares into cannon is not moving forward. It is still, as of old, a retrogression. And the real spirit of youth knows it, too. | pros- is as we've to use; a new ver-| of “Cyrano which Walter Hampden has produced on the stage (with what result Brother Nathan will tell you), and Henry Holt & Company have pub-| lished. It an excellent translation, fluent and mostly well phrased for the speaking voice—a much better. transla- tion than the one Mansfield used in 1898. | But when Mr. Clayton Hamilton in his introduction (we gather from this intro- | duction that Mr. Hampden produced the | play so Mr. Hamilton could see it), says that it is the only decent translation, beg to differ. There is one made Gertrude Hall, a little book bound in which we used to carry in our pocket everywhere just twenty-five years ago, and though we haven't opened it lo! these two decades, we'll wager Mr. Hamilton a Pittsburgh stogic against two seats to the | Follies, that it’s darn good. Buss Hooker has made sion, in English is we by Father is Santa Claus all the year round; only at Christmas, he dresses up to Sambo—Wisit T could get Sue under the | mistletoe. Crambo—Vor why? | | “So T could kiss her good-by!" | Unruly | Hair STACOMB keeps any kind of hair in place—just as it’s combed. Dry and brittle, soft and fluffy, stiff and wiry hair—all kinds controlled by STACOMB. Leaves hair soft and lustrous. Excellentaftera shampoo. Insist on STACOMB—the original —in black and yellow package. At all drug counters. Tubes—35e Jars —75e Send coupon for Free Trial Tube. = STANDARD LAORATORI In 150 Stanford Ave., Lon Angeles, California. Dept. 3oHL Please send me free trial tube, Name. Postage Prepaid clear, white bond ally veenooth writin Seperate National Stationery Co... BATAVIA. THEINOIS RITTENHOUSE HOTE 22D & CHESTNUT STS. PHILADELPHIA, PA. Rooms with hot and $2 UP cold running water $3 uP Rooms Mane bath Special Luncheon, 90¢. As well as service a la carte. Club Breakfast, 50¢ up Evening Dinner, $1.25. our. special low Chicago Supply fer Ave. Che, ons24B Archer Ave ee | OF BRAINS a CE fae “MADE AT KEY WEST.— comicbooks.com