The Cairo bulletin., 1907-08-09
MIS- PREHISTORIC
MAJESTY
opios OF the Tlmes Discussed
IN Royal Language

AhF, SNlu AHt pltHiHlblIt Mig u
hs surgeon general whom he hat
summoned To his past grand worship
M presence, what's gnawin the pcG
| rle Of this realm what Kind az !
bug have they got now, huhs'
rhe physician stood moment be
tween fear and peipleNity
y don't quite comprehend the ma
tare Of your malesty's Interrogation,
he ycnturcd at last 70 observe
What's that? You don't careen e
my George Ade hreeze9 Your ball0na
jlb don't till to my jabber gust hch5
My adyauccdthought air currents pass
over your mental top-gallant DO they
! Wen. It'll see II | can yank them dowu
/ 10 a level with Your bilge.water intel
/ ect What | want to know is, what
/ the dickens als my people2 Hall 81
'em are SO dumnatlon good that they
! give me the saccharine sickness. When
/ they come into my royal presence they
make me feel as II / had eaten 20
/ charlotte russcs ia 80 minutes
After -four minutes with one Of
these human cream puffs the other
day | hustled oHt to the Kitchen for i
ain pickle Then. GA the other hand,
the rest Of my people are 50 thunder
in bad there's NO settin along with
EN- al all Seems as ii the very diel
was In EN- and they were glad Of it..
TO be sure, they're something Ok An
Improvement on those animated me-
ringue puddings that constitute the
other half. but their everlasting ras,
ealIty becomes tksqmc when yau
have to wallow through it eight days
In the week.
New, then, Doc. tits UP to you to
peek into the pack and ger wise as to
why people ain't built On less nonot-
onous lines why did ! pay IS hard
earned bucks 10 run up through d med
ical college ln 90 days and buy yon a
diploma printed In a dead and buried
language2 What do give you your
clothes ana keep for If 1t ain't to haze
you cure me of that tired feeling my
emery subjects give me?
DO you saygy what I'm driving at?
want yon to yet d spurt on you ana
find ONT how to make folks sort I'D
little evener; and I'm in hurry about
ii. too
Y think | perceive said the physi-
clan, backing to the doorway, where
he gracefully salaamed
Thereupon his majesty kicked him
out and slammed the door, the while
he chuckled merrily to himself for
that he had performed an exceeding
meritorious pun
The aext day the surgeon begged
audience 81 the king saying that he
had diagnosed the case Of the people ,
and was prepared to make his report
LET an flicker the king command
ed. seating himself upon the arm of
hts throne and drawing his purple robe
abeut his bsre legs. fag the spring uaz
shy and backward thar year.
Youf majesty the physician be-
gan y find the diathetic conditions Of
your people 70 be beth pathological
and ~
Come OH, the king interrupted
'You talk like subway engineer
Who knows what the deuce 1t means?"
II find" the doctor began again,
that the trouble with your people is 4
In their blood Some Of them have /
only white cofpuscles. and this makes /
them rather too good, while the rest I
nave only red corpuscles. which makes /
them rather too bad. II may venture
4 suggestion your majesty"
Hold on, DO you venture it as a
physician OF as a member of the board
II estimate
AS physician. your majesty"
Very well. then, go ahead"
Il would suggest that you Issue a
royal ukase commanding the good and !,
The bad people OF the realm TO inter
marry This would bring about a com
niugling Of the TWO kinds of blood,
and in few generations you would
have a race in which good and bad
would be pretty evenly distributed In
each individual
There you 90, shouted the king.
I was afraid You were going to talk ,
ike a board member. Dye think I'm ,
,oing 70 wait several generations for ,
his new order OF things2 Dye think f,
m gOin' TO deal four aces to posterity i
nd take pair o deuces for myself? F.,
lot much. Mary Ann. I'm out for the =
oyous Now with a cap y Me for the IL
ladaome present, the leeting Already
let Look here You trot ont your I
FOR bleeding folks and get | I
'usy. Just draw half the blood out s
& the good people and half out of the
ad people. and swap EN- over. savvy9 {
want sou TO pump half white blood i
MO the strenuous ones and hall red
icod into the moilyeoddles, and strike Il
nd average. See?' 8
But both sides viii object to that a
our majesty d
Let em object. II you're so meay q
bout it you can stick up signs in the 0
trcet telling EN- il amt your doings. =
.ay DC OF on me IL you like. but get I
o On you and do business. Clear out
here,"
When the surgeon general had hus -
ed ont to do the blood swapping. the :.
ing leaned back in his throne and :
Iughed long and loud
sipr Tir1.fnrf- bo abr.rt-fH t !