Judge — January 3, 1925 — page 17: what you’re looking at

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Ay Hl i Happy New Year! Perhaps most of us are inclined to break our New Year's resolutions beeause they are not worth keepit What are they usually?—that we won't drink, or smoke, or swear, or loaf, or sleep through the alarm, or say un- kind things. But such resolutions express childish ideals, culled from ecopybooks. W few to fit upe : at about a rown- For instanc ception of moralit I will not « 1 will not do lip servi I will not laugh unless [ se I will not snivel « and like the } er the sentimental. I will not sink my identity in any mob whatsoever, whether to ce! te Mother's Day or effect a lynching. I will insist on picking my own pleasures. I will be an ass, if the mood strikes me. I will be inconsistent, if [ want to be. I won't lie—to myself. “It is easy in. the world to live after the world’s opinion,” wrote Emerson; “it is easy in solitude to live after our own; but the great man is he who in the midst of the crowd keeps with perfect sweetness the independence of solitude.” Go to it! “Whom Are You?” Said the Grand Duchess The Grand Duchess Cyril has con a word of protest from the head of the National Security League. Yet no visitor in years has done so much to make friends in this country for the Soviet Government. The nd Duchess herself seems to be : lady of friendly proclivities who quite naturally supports her husband's pretensions. America is full of such ladies. There would have been nothing to object to in the tem- porary addition of another, if it had not been for the cir- cumstances and manner of her reception. Whether a fact or not, it was made to appear that she was not the guest of individual friends who had known her and liked her for herself, but of an organization which sought certain values from her importation. What were these values? Were they musical? The Mone Club was her sponsor and host, but so fi the record she can neither sing nor play, nor does she pretend to any particular opinion of these things. Were they literary or artistic or even political? They were not. The Grand Duchess, « ’, has political ambitic but not so the Mor ‘lub. Th ely snobbish. There being no official recognition of social classes in this country, dd gone without as ap} values sou! clever scheme was hatched alty as the soure using unattached foreign f sanctity for our would-be peers The Grand Ducl a laying on of hands. Even this might be overlooked as of no concern except to the silly people involved, if the rite had been conducted privately. But instead a press agent was hired and the thing given the publicity of a Shades of the Spirit of If the S the whol and peeresses. ss was brought r for monument unveiling. atanic Lenin were alive we could believe that ffair had been conc ived in his cunning brain s communist prop: But the present head of the Third Intermatic ems hardly capable of such artistry. Still, we commend the thought to Solomon Stanwood Menke The Countess Karolyi, wh: ther tenets, couldn't accomplish in ten years what the Grand Duchess Cyril did inten days for the eause of world revolution. and put over nda. A Comparison What is there about a duchess that repels the demo- cratic imagination, and about a prince that charms it? Probably th ations of the title in ea with dowagers bent on the exercise of soe assoc ase, the ithority. the other with a young man apparently bent on escaping such exerci \ lel is sure to be drawn between the visit of the Grand Duchess Cyril and that of her Kinsman, the Princ of Wales. And it will Why should the Prin pursued by toadies on Long Island, make friends for royalty. and the Grand Duche: Manhattan, make enemies? e = Nodoubt the factor. as . pursued by toadies on lifference in their ages was an important If the Grand Duchess had been a lovely young girl we might lave strained her to our collectiv with somethin, Princess Pat. rosomt f the enthusiasm we lavished once on then her evident enjoyment of life would have obscured her craving for royal h could hy Hors and we said of her, How democratic she is Her sex, too, was a handicap. ‘The Prince of Wales endeared himself to our hearts by giving his formal hosts the slip and running off to join Will Rogers. But where is a grand duchess to find the Will Rogers of her sex to run off to, let alone the opportunity to run off? And the poor Grand Duchess had to remember, that her hosts were paying her bills, which a: sary that she do th OF course, she mistake! it ne duchess act to the bitter en But wl WoM. H. grand muy have wanted to. comicbooks.com