The semi-weekly messenger., 1908-03-13

before lying doWu- ne cog Turns
round because his wild ancestors turn
ed round to pres down the grass The
origin OF this chair moving must have
been the shaking of n bCsh BY our
unpanted p-ogenitoTS who naturally
objected to sitting on q hornets nest
or a snake
To test my theory try TO sit down
on a bush without your pants on with
out Investigating your seat. You can't
90 IL: you feel instinctively there Is
too much at stake. A man never feels
SO Hypothetical as when he sits down
suddenly on something foreign with
out his pants Pants, Eike health.
can't be appreciated until you have
none
When q man looks at his watch and
returns 1t to his pocket, instantly ask
him for the time. He can't tell you
without looking at Ii again. Delay
your question for a moment and he
can; but while the mind is absorb
ing the knowledge the question seems
TO efface II from the memory. The
greater the mind, the tgreater the
neglect OF non-essential details. Great
men write bad hands" is a maxim.
How many bookkeepers write bad
hands? About as many as get above
bookkeeping There is little In a tread
mill to inspire originality. Did you
ever see an eccentric bookkeeper? The
nearest / ever knew one to get &C.
centric was an expert accountant who
went to church and never got drunk
Many OF these peculiarities are per-
haps, "rudimentary echoes or nor
NAL actions. 1t seems impossible TO es-
cape wholly from what was once an
essential and anchestral characterize
tic. They are Of no practical use,
but, like the vermiform appendix,
aborted ear wagging muscles and sill
ent letters in or biography. linger as a
memory OF what was formerly func-
tional
The Empress Marie Louise could flap
her ears, so can l. SO can another in
dividual. In us three the gift
seems TO be derived from ancestors
without environment notifications /
presume, therefore, that transcending
mentality is not essential TO the gener-
ating and fostering OF this popularity
1t appears to be an abnormal trait
in which an ignorramous can indulge
without exposing himself to the charge
OF affectation or presumptuous emula-
tion.
Charles v Of Germany used to at
tend his own funeral; his only relax
alton from state affairs. Nothing
was omitted in the obsequies but a
do id corpse. He used to get into a
G. lin, prayers were said over him,
{ ID you can bet your life that the
gentleman who preached the funeral
sermon handed out the best he had in
the shor. With his majesty playing
poSsum vas mania Now, how long
could a elbow in the minority cut up
those didces without clashing with
the insanity expert? The little man
with nothing but his eccentricities to
invite notice is a human monkey. Any
fool can Cal attention to himself; IL is
q noOr ass whose ears are not in ca
5loot with his bray. Some folks are
SO constantly consistent in their nat
ural and artificial idiocy that no one
notices them until their afrectation
assumes the disguise Of common sense
Boswell's antics were as unique as
disgusting His very questions would
guarantee the insanity of the common
man, Yet, DR.. Johnson is known, first
as the man whose life was written by
this simpering- drunken busy body.
second: as-Dr. Johnson. Macaulay
says Boswell was a great writer be-
cause he was n great fool. I know not
to what extent folly guarantees lit
erary ability, but, fool. or no fool,
Boswell accomplished what no other