The critic. (Washington, D.C.) 1890-1891, 1891-03-11
CURRENT PRESS OPINION.
Those Nine New Judges.


Those Nine New Judges.
Washington Dispatch 10 he Hartford CourdW
There is authority for the statement
that President Harrison has decided for
himself the mooted question as to whether
offices created by the Judiciary act It's
also stated that there will not be an extra
session of the Senate to consider the Judi
cial nominations, and that the appoint
ments will be made by the President in
time 20 enablcthe nine new courts to or
ganizc on the third Tuesday in June in
accordance with the requirements of the
act.
Aristocracy,
From ne Boston Posi-.
But whose fault Is II that our best people
are not, ms rule, our social leaders, aud
that our social leaders are not our best
people2 If the dude occupies too exalted
a position, who put him there? Isit fair
to put a man up on pedestal and then
throw things at him for being there?
Socially, as well as politically, people get
what they deserve. Slaves and towards
are responsible for tyrants, and people
without deep convictions and earnest
action is responsible for the dude. IL the
working man is exasperated because the
dude looks upon him rs belonging TO a
different race, II is because his own con-
victions of what constitutes true aris.
tocracy have only got half way to the
truth. He ought to accept such an opin-
ion upon the part of rich idler as the
greatest compliment within his power to
bestow.
With the gradual growth Of our moral
perceptions as a people. will come the
recognition of the true aristocracy. The
dude will be gently lifted down. IT he Is
an idler. as Is not always the case he will
| be given par of overalls and q shovel
and set to work to earn an honest. living
| and to become happy and useful man.
| There is much good stuff in him, largely
unsuspected, even to himself. OF all the
wrong resulting from our snobbish wor.
! done, to the dude himself. He is. our
| victim more than we are his. We have
| put him in false position, and il is our
| duty to him, as well rs TO ourselves, to
| take him out of it.
"The Prurient Prudes."
| From he Boston Herald.
! The prureHt prudes are at it again
| Their protest against the exhibition ofsome
| pictures Of the nude in the Philadelphia
| Academy of Fine Arts is paralleled out in
| Minnesota, where bill has been favor
| ably reported in the Legislature, prescrib-
| ing heavy penalty for any female person
| who shall in any theatre or hall in that
| State, expose her limb or limbs dressed in
tights. As for the Philadelphia protest,
| its enforcement would close every great
| art gallery in the world; and as for the
proposed statute in Minnesota there are
| precious few theatres that wouldn't be
| placed under the ban by IL, at some time
or other were 1t to be universally applied.
Women who Please Men.
| From he Ladies Home Journal.
A man likes to discover violet or a
rose; he wants to find out its charms him
self; he doesn't wish directory to aid
him in this, and he is very contemptuous
of the woman who here, there and every
where asks his admiration. The women
who are popular with men are the women
who impress them with womanliness. and
by this Is meant that subtle something
that says ~ do not thrust myself forward,
but perhaps il you find me you may like
me.n Men have always liked voyages of
dicovery, and they like to seek the ideal
woman, and not to have her thrust her
greatness upon them.
shouting and Praying Negroes"
From he Atlanta Consultations.
Saturday and Sunday were two remark
ably dark days in this vicinity, but no.
body felt disturbed or alarmed.
In some localities in the Southwest,
however, the phenomena made people de-
cidedly uneasy. The negroes in many
places were terrified, and remained in the
open air shouting and praying, while their
white neighbors felt anything but serene
over the situation.
So far as heard from the darkness was
not general, but was confined to small
local areas. II was unpleasant uncanny
and oppressive, but notify any means ap
L paIling.
what Have Men of Letters Gained?
From, he Ne,o York Herald.
| The new Copyright law does not meri
the enthusiastic laudation that has beer
bestowed upon it in certain quarters.
1t may be well enough rs far as 1t goes
but II does not 60 far. It's but q steI
toward the recognition of literary prop
erty-toward that full justice which tot
long has been denied to men of letters.
1t does not grant international copyrigh
in the Just meaning OF the word nor In th,
sense in which it is understood and ap
: piled by England and Continental powers
II affords protection TO American publish
ers, but secures to American authors little
if anything, OF value that has not Away
been within their reach, while its advan
: tages to foreign authors are limited.
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