s America, in these troublous times, an
island in chaos, where civilization, like Custer, will make its last
stand.

* * *

Doctors disagree as to whether 70 degrees is the proper temperature for
an apartment. This will intrigue a friend of ours who, preferring 60
degrees himself, is obliged to maintain a temperature of almost 80
because of his mother-in-law.

* * *

"Women," says Dr. Ethel Smyth, of London (perhaps you know Ethel),
"women have undoubtedly invaluable work to do as composers." Quite so.
And any time they are ready to begin we'll sit up and take notice.

* * *

Sh-h-h! On Main street in Buffalo, near the Hotel Iroquois, you can have
"Tattooing Done Privately Inside."

* * *

Shall we not revise Shakespeare:

The chariest maid is prodigal enough
If she unmask her beauty on the Boul.

* * *

A NEW FIRM IN FISH.

[From the Kearney Neb., Democrat.]

Fresh Smoked Finn & Haddies at Keller's Market.

* * *

Our interest in baseball has waned, but we still can watch workmen on a
skyscraper throwing and catching red-hot rivets.

* * *

The dinosaur, having two sets of brains (as we once pointed out in
imperishable verse), was able to reason _a priori_ and _a posteriori_
with equal facility. But what we started to mention was an ad in the
American Lumberman calling for "a good all around yellow pine office
man of broad wholesale experience, well posted on both ends."

* * *

Among the new publications of Richard G. Badger we lamp, "Nervous
Children: Their Prevention and Management."

* * *

Unrelieved pessimism rather shocks us. In spite of everything we are
willing to look on the bright side. We are willing to agree that, in
some previous incarnation, we may have inhabited a crookeder world than
this.

* * *

The valued News, of New York, dismisses lightly the fear that the
Puritan Sabbath will be restored. Ten or twenty years ago people
dismissed as lightly the fear that Prohibition would be saddled on the
country. On his way to the compulsory Wednesday-evening prayer meeting,
a few years hence, the editor of the News will recall his cheerful and
baseless prediction in 1920.

* * *

Fired by liquor, men maltreat their wives. These wretches deserve public
flogging;