The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1893-02-08

SIMILAR CASES.
By CHARLOTTE PERKINS STETsoN.

1
There was once little animal, no
bigger than fox,
And on five toes he scampered over
Tertiary rocks.
They called him Eohippus, and they
called him very small,
And they thought him of no value
when they thought of him at all !;
For the lumpish Dinoceras and Cory
phodent so slow
Were the heavy aristocracy in days of
| long ago.
Said the little Eohippus 81 am going
to be horse.
"And on my middle finger nails to
run my earthly course!
"rm going to have flowing tail /!
I'm going to have name!
I'm going to stand fourteen hands
high on the Psychozoic plain !"
The Coryphodont was Mortified, the
Dinoceras was shocked;
And they chased young Eohippus, but
he skipped and Knocked.
Then they laughed enormous laugh
ter, and they grOaned enormous
groans,
And they babe young Eohippus AGO
and view his fathers bones!u
Said they: "You always were as low
and small as now we see,
And therefore it is evident you're
always going to be !"
"What! Be a great, tall, handsome
beast with hoofs to gallop on!
Why, you'd have to change your
nature! :" said the Loxolophodon.
Then they fancied him disposed of,
and retired with gait serene
That was the way they argued in
the Early Eocene."
There was once an Anthropoidal Ape,
far smarter than the rest,
And everything that they could do he |
always did the best
So they naturally disliked him, and |
they gave him shoulders cool,
And, when they had to mention him,
they said he was fool.
Cried this pretentious ape one day:
m going to be Man!
And stand upright, and hunt. and
fight, and conquer all can
"Pm going to cut down forest trees
to make my houses higher!
Pm going to kill the Mastodon I'm
going to make Fire ~
Loud screamed the Anthropoidal
Apes with laughter wild and gay;
L RI fnh f,,1 /
but he always got away.
So they yelled at him in chorus,
which he minded not a whit;
And they pelted him with coccanuts,
which didn't seem to hit.
And then they gave him reasons
which they thought of much avail
To prove how his preposterous at
tempt was sure to fail.
Said the sages: ain the first place
the thing can not be done !!
And second, if it could be, it would
not be any fun
And third, and most conclusive,
and admitting no reply,
lou would have to change your ma
ture We should like to see you
try !"
they chuckled then triumphantly,
those lean and hairy shapes;
COR these things passed as arguments
with the AnthrOpOidal Apes
THREE.
here was once Neolithic man, ain
enterprising wight,
Who made his simple implements I'M
usually bright.
clever he, unusually brave,
md he sketched delightful mann
moths on the borders of his cave.
o his Neolithic neighbors, who were
startled and surprised,
aid he: 'My friends, in course of c
time, we shall be civilized!
We are going to live in cities and
build churches and make laws!
We are going to eat three times day
without the natural cause!
We're going to turn life upside down {
about thing called GOIdI
we're going to want the earth, and
take as much as we can hold.
We're going to wear pile of stuff
outside our proper skins!
aie SoIuS TO nave Diseases! and
Accomplishments! and Sins!!p,
hen they all rose up in fury against
their boastful friend,
or prehistoric patience comes quick
ly to an end.
aid one: ''This is chimerical, Ito
plan! Absurd!r
ald another: "What stupid life, .
Too dull, upon my wordv a
ried all: Before such things can
come, you idiotic child,
OH must alter Human naturerp and
they all sat back and smiled. Oh
bought they: "An answer to tb.+ -
last it will be hard to findp,
was clinching argument-to tbo