Yes, we'll can it or no,
As the notion may seize us.
If a thing is de trop,
Yes; we'll can it--or no.
For we always let go
When a thing doesn't please us.
Yes, we'll can it, or--no,
As the notion may seize us.
* * *
Sir Oliver Lodge has seen so many tables move and heard so many
tambourines, that he now keeps an open mind on miracles. We hope he
believes that the three angels appeared to Joan of Arc, as that is our
favorite miracle. Had they appeared only once we might have doubted the
apparition; but, as we remember the story, they appeared three times.
* * *
Sir Oliver may be interested in a case reported to us by L. J. S. His
company had issued a tourist policy to a lady who lost her trunk on the
way to Tulsa, Okla., and who put in a claim for $800. The adjuster at
Dallas wrote:
"Assured is the famous mind reader, and one of her best stunts is
answering questions in regard to the location of stolen property, but
she was unable to be of any assistance to me."
* * *
Some of the members of the Cosmopolitan club are about as cosmopolitan
as the inhabitants of Cosmopolis, Mich.
* * *
At the request of a benedick we are rushing to the Cannery by
parcel-post Jar 617: "Don't they make a nice-looking couple!"
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