to the child and learned that she was one of a large family.
Her father, she said, was a New York cartoonist who one day had been
visited by an Original Idea.

"Where is he?" cried the Hatter excitedly.

"He dropped dead!" replied the child, weeping bitterly.

"Good night!" said the Hatter, and walked away.

A LINE-O'-TYPE OR TWO

_Quicquid agunt homines nostri est farrago libelli._
--_Juvenal._

Question:

Who is this Juvenal wheezer?
Readers inquire every day.
Give us a line on the geezer--
What is he trying to say?
Do you expect us to get stuff
That is clear over our bean?
What is that "_Quicquid_, et cet." stuff?
What does the gibberish mean?

Reply:

If you're too lazy to look for
Juvenal's name in the Dic,
Why should _I_ go to the book for
Such a cantankerous kick?
Still, to avoid all dissension,
And my good nature to prove,
I am quite willing to mention
One or two things about Juve.

Juve was a Roman humdinger,
Writer of satires and sich.
He was consid'rable stinger--
Rare were his sallies and rich.
High his poetic position,
Lofty his manner and brow;
Lived in the time of Domitian;--
That's all I think of just now.

As for that "_Quicquid_, and so forth,"
I have but space to advise
If you'd decipher it go forth,
Look in the Dic and be wise.
Make it a point, in your reading,
Always to look up what's new.
That is a simple proceeding:
Why not adopt it? _I_ do.

* * *

IT HAS BEEN DONE.

Sir: Broke friend wife's favorite Victrola record. Told her about it.
She came back with, "Well, that's the only record you ever broke." Do
you think she was bawling me out or was she paying me a compliment?

E. P. P.

* * *

"Will the Devil complete the capture of the modern church?" inquires the
Rev. Mr. Straton of New York. Why is it assumed that the Old Boy is
attempting to capture it? People go to the Devil; the Devil doesn't have
to chase after them. The notion that Old Nick, is always around drumming
up business is an example of the inordinate vanity of man.

* * *

Dean Jones of Yale is credited with this definition
of freedom of speech: "The liberty to say
what you think without thinking what you say."

* * *

"ON SUCH A NIGHT..."

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