Los Angeles herald., 1909-03-01
CURRENT MAGAZINES

Almost every newspaper of impor-
lance in the country nowadays finds 1t
necessary to include on it's staff a, car
toonist. Realizing the demand for car
toons, several monthly magazines are
devoting pages entirely to the repro
duction of the best cartoons that have
appeared in the numberless newspapers
published throughout the country. 1t
is estimated that over rs per cent of
those reproduced are taken from the
papers of the middle west. Therefore,
the conclusion is reached that the mid
die west is the center of cartoonism
in this country. The demand for good
cartoonists has been so great that
newspapers are now paying almost
fabulous salaries to these molders of
public opinion.
The cartoonist is the life and strength
of the newspaper of today. With one
bold dash of his crayon he fultills his
mission more swiftly and more surely
than the ablest writer of the staff. His
Interpretation of the most vital political
and social problems of the day goes
straight to the hearts of the cosmo-
politan public, each individual critics.
ing from his own narrow pint of yiew-
Cartoonists receive letters daily from
the reading public, either praising or
condemning their work, depending on
the policies of the reader, and OFTEN
times asking how they got their start
and how they gather their material for
cartoon. In reply, they volunteer the
information that sometimes good, car
toonible news matter is scarce and they
must rely on something that is of their
own observation. A good instance Of
this is in the cartoons by Ralph Wild
err of the Chicago Record Herald, per-
tanning to children. Mr.. Wilder has
found times when it seemed almost inn
possible to find a suitable idea for his
daily cartoon, when, Presto! the latest
prank of one of his children gives him
inspiration. The day after such car
toons have been published Mr.. Wilder
has always received a number of let
ters about the same, requesting the ORR
ginal and informing him that the same
thing happened at their house. Mr..
Wilder says, in humorous way, that
a number of people have children, and
therefore, that cartoon of this nature
is sure to make an impression.-Ray-
mond Roy Olson in The Bohemian for
February.
mo man can ever understand the
heartsick dread, the cold, abject terror
with which an unmarried woman real
ICES that she is no longer young-that
her face. her hair, her hands cry out
that youth has passed." writes Mabel
Herbert Urner in the Red Book Maya
zine for February. This merciless
aging of the flesh-God!-whata hor-
rible thing it is to woman! Each
day little more withered, a little less
round: angles coming where curves
have been! Each day her chances of
wifehood growing less; her stock in
the marriage mart fast decreasing; her
value, her youth, her freshness, her
fairness slipping away! Old age, lone
ly. loveless, childless-a hideous, bar
rem old age-looms gray before her.
Frantically she resorts to massage,
creams, lotions, 'beautifiers.' she be-
comes a slave to all the devices for
preserving and restoring youth.
EVERY man she meets she now re-
CARDS as a possible husband. And yet.
all the while she smiles bravely and
says she never intends to marry: that
she is absorbed in her work that
she would not give up her independ-
ence for the ties and responsibilities of
marriage. I am traitor to my sex in
saying so, yet firmly believe that so
per cent of the unmarried women past
80 would marry any decent, kindly
man that would ask them! OF course,
they will deny it; they will lie about
it to themselves, to each other, to the
world. They must lie about it or
jeopardize to the vanishing point their
| chances of obtaining the one thing
needful.
What a farce! What a pitiful.
empty farce it all is. you say. And yet
| it is but part of the tissue of pre-
tense life imposes on woman"
writer in the February Wide World
Magazine gives a remarkable account
of a cat which. though greatly against
her wish, Travelled a distance of 500
miles in an open boat in the Arctic
ocean. This animal was the pet of the
crew of the Inflated whaler Windward,
which was wrecked in Baffin bay last
season. After the disaster pussy had a
long, cold voyage in the open boats in
which the shipwrecked men pulled
amidst icebergs, snow and tossing seas
for over 500 miles, encountering dam
gers and adventures galore, till after
three weeks of fearful exposure and
hardship they were picked up by the