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"1 want to make it (luite clear to every one in your office that those 

 invitations to the staff are meant to inchide wives, also." 

 Many j)eople may think the joke is on Mr. Marthens. 

 Some may think it is not altof2;ether on Mr. Marthens. 



Mr, Andrews has been keeping something from us. W'q see by the 

 papers that one of his objects on the Third Asiatic Zoological Expedition 

 is to get a photograph of the Garden of Eden, and, if possil:)le, a snap- 

 shot of Adam, 



" What kind of husband would you advise me to pick out? " 

 "If you take my advice you'll leave husbands alone and pick out a 

 single man." 



It has been suggested that the Museum open a new exhibition hall 

 to be known as the Hall of Living and Lively Giants. As prize installa- 

 tions for such a hall we have Messrs. Donnelly, HufTe, Hughes, Quinn 

 and Talbot, 



A boy who aspired to l)e a weather prophet V)ought a barometer and 

 proudly took it home. 



"What is that?" asked his mother. 



"It's a barometer I just bought. It tells you when it's going to rain." 



"Why did you waste money on that thing," cried his mother, "when 

 Providence has provided your father with rheumatics?" 



Nearly every one who has ever cut up a crab and a frog and a rabbit 

 in an elementary zoology course knows or once knew the following poem. 

 But those who have not run across it before may be glad to read it here. 

 And those to whom it is already familiar will greet it as an old friend. 



Evolution 



When you were a tadpole and I was a fish, 



In the Pahrozoic time. 



And side l)y side on the ebbing tide 



We sprawled through the ooze and slime. 



Or skittered with manv a caudal fiij) 



Through the depths of the Cambrian fen, 



My heart was rife with the joy of life, 



P\)r I loved you even then. 



