Judge — January 1938 — page 29: what you’re looking at

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1885 gine. . TRANSMUTATION OF SEX Mrs. ELIZA R. CONNOR, who spoke at the Sorosis dinner the other night, developed a suspicion and a desire that in the transmutation of souls she might some day become a man. Here is the vaulting ambition which o'erleaps itself. Mrs. Connor is ignorant whereof she speaks. She has never been a man in her life. If she were to be a person of that persuasion, and at the same time if she might remember her previous condition, she would hate her- self half to death. There are a great many contemptibly small and mean things in the composition of the average woman, and they may easily be pardoned by the larger mind of the other sex. But who shall pardon the average man? His offenses are great in proportion to his superiority as to size and strength. He snaps and snarls precisely as women do, but in addition he lifts his shoulders and Grover Cleveland elected President. . crats blamed for the depression. . . General Grant dies. . Jobn L. Sullivan knocks out a horse. THE EVOLUTION OF THE DUDE. shakes his superior mane the better to howl. He is small and mean, jealous and suspicious, overbearing and vain-glori- ous; but, beyond that, he uses his strength to oppress and his superior hoof to stamp out. No woman would be half as unjust if she had the power. Few wom- en would hesitate to kill with a jest, a glance, or a flash of wit; but no woman would soil her dignity and ruffle her plumage -to do the outright butchery which is the chief act of the universal man. : No, Mrs. Eliza Connor; you stay right where you are. You are doing well enough. A CABLE dispatch from Berlin, a few days ago, startled American readers with the sad intelligence that “the Em. peror William is suffering from a slight cold.” Our government should have manifested its sympathy by immediately cabling back recommending William to soak his feet in hot mustard water and . Cholera kills thousands in the Old World . . . Demo- . Gustav Daimler invents the internal combustion en. . Dynamite explosion rocks England's Houses of Parliament. .. . « First electric street railway in U. S. operates. take a dose of goose grease and molasses. Next to the result of an English horse- race, this country yearns most to know when King William is suffering from a slight cold—and we cannot be too thank- ful that we are not obliged 'to wait two weeks for such news to come by the slow process of the mails, as in the days of our forefathers. Mr. CRANDALL, a Brooklyn inven- tor, thinks the time will soon come when men will fly. .If Mr. Crandall had been a close reader of the newspapers, he would know that that period has already arrived. The fact is not calculated to be- come popular, however, as long as bank directors discover next day that thou- sands of dollars have flown along with the man. . Sara BERNHARDT says the reason she sold her skeleton was that she couldn't afford to keep two of them. January, 1958 EVOLUTION ILLUSTRATED AGAIN. 27 comicbooks.com