New Walks in Old Ways 



staggers under the possibilities in- 

 volved. Venus de Milos and Apollo 

 Belvederes on every street; Homers 

 and Shakespeares at every turn! 

 Saints on request, and sinners while 

 you wait! Subdivisions of types world 

 without end! We could breed the 

 nose off the face, and the hair off the 

 head! Detectives with scents as keen 

 as a foxhound's would simplify the 

 enforcement of the "search and 

 seizure" laws! Men with legs so long 

 that stepladders would be useless sup- 

 lied on application! Men with one 

 leg or no legs! Women without 

 tongues ! Pickpockets without hands, 

 and footpads without feet! Why not? 

 See what we have done with dogs ! 



The trouble is that sooner or later 

 old Adam would break loose and inter- 

 fere. The managing director of all 

 this would be defied. Some belle of 

 the Russian wolf-hound style of archi- 

 tecture would set the pace by eloping 

 with some fascinating swain of a 



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