Our party friends were exceedingly angry on hearing the verdict and sentence; but I, feeling reckless, proposed that we should go together to Auerbach’s cellar—rendered famous by the scene in Goethe’s Faust—and have a bottle of wine. Our wives, who received us with tears, were not pleased with our levity; but finally, plucky women that they were, they came with us. My doctor consoled my wife in a curious way. “Frau Bebel,” he said, “if your husband gets a year in prison you may rejoice, for he needs a rest!”
ONCE YE HAVE SEEN MY FACE YE DARE NOT MOCK
CARTOON FROM THE “NEW AGE,” LONDON
JUSTICE
WALTER CRANE
(English artist and Socialist, 1845-1915)