Evening Star Newspaper, June 27, 1926, Page 73

THE SUNDAY! STA’R, WASHINGTON, D. C. JUNE 27, 1926—PART 5. Odd Characters, Queer uestions and Answers and Unique Tours Responding to the Call: “Your Presents Are Requested at the Marriage Ceremony” BY NINA WILCOX PUTNAM. S RICHARD WAGNER, the buy who wrote the most fa- mous chain gang song in the world, you know, the one they all march up the aisle to, once his confessions “1f 1 had realized what that darn tune was onner lead to 1 woull never of wrote it.” And believe you myself had good ¢ emotion not_lon: jeorge, t ‘s my husband, 10tice through the mails o out nd spend some of our hard earned hard cash on a farewell gift to one which was about to bid adue to sinzle life 10 the above mentioned tune, and 1180 10 the tune of several hundred bervies overhead. the most expensive tem of said overhead being the bridal fhead.dress The minute I seen a big, fat, smooth welope in the mail I realized what ve was in for. I could tell by the eel of it that it was gonner cost us fnoney, on account only two kinds of fetters come in them high « refopes, millinery opent lings, and in either case the ult {8 expensive. So I sat down be fore opening it. to be prepared for the shock, and inside was a sum nons to ringside it the execu- jon. “Mr. and Mre. Lessen Nothir request some presents and your sald in me, I use t personally second his when I and veceived company &t the marriage of their daughter Miss Nothing At the Home of the Bride Cuckoo Towers, Bayrum, L. I Tuesday Evening June 41 4 P. M. fter as the bride can convenlently finish dressing. RS.V.P.. P.DQ., Ph.D, Li.n. Lita. Please omit flowers or as soon Then there w unes, little card ‘heck with “fo s postponed” on it unother which savs, will leave the e he depot a 00 large of enclo < a rain he groom Then there was A private car al depot, or the crowd is nd track on ower level, left entra t 8lx A, M his card good for one photo of self when accompanied by $5 only.” e flock uch use in e s a HE next card was more interest ing: it concerned the eats, and it r.a 's. Nothing will feed 1 free at t after, provided cou have the strength to reach the ideboard ah. the gang. The | pleasure of 13 requested.’” And the last person had or sort of gination fbout it. on ‘At Home, “olumbus Ci Just who w rer wasn't mentioned, but 1 took It to 1eaM it Was & nursing home where rounded wedding guests could be ooked after. Anyways, we was cer- nly thoroughly invited to that wed- ing, the only t hadn't ‘sent 18 was 2 summon dog license, hnd anvbody with made on a hook hat when the fami house like that Ay out of it w U attend the wedding or not showed the stacked cards to with a few remarks about dy cash. For the luvva tripe s uppose vou hafto Fomething, it's a outrage, . And T says, y I know, dear, t they are awfy rich people, so fva will he obliged to shake ourse; lown for something real handsome, nd, besides, outside of her being my ook's rcond cousin once removed, ne always sends me something hand- rome for my birthday and on Christ- as, and tomorrow fs my birth he 1s sure to send something as per 1sual, so I gotter spend at least wenty-five doliars on her. Nothing ess would be dc So Geo., after onsiderable more talk. eventually | ve a groan and the 825, and 1 set ut to buy that durned pre r ear M n | Well, this time the r.. the Nor and the latest candals Is pretty well crowded out f the newspaper by ads concerning des, run ads which would nake a modest person run. Talk hout your blushing brides, they ain't ace be at home ¢ deals you you gotta buy h a gift, whether buy them it'e a hold ent “ALSO ANOTHER CUTE ARTICLE WAS A HAND-PAINTED MAGNET FOR EMPTYING THE POCKETS IN HUS- the only blushers. are such that my mother, if she was living, would certainly and without any doubt at all read every word of them, look at all tne pictures and wisht she could of had the same. Well, anywavs, the brides get not alone a terrible Iot of publicity, but the papers is also full of advice to their friends concerning what to give ‘em, and our local Emporium was not behind. This tay I started out on the painful duty of buying some. thing nice for another woman's house, the Emporium had a big ad abowt their gift dept ¢ ything the Exchange!"” #ifts for the new hostess, in our gift shop, especially chosen to suit all purses, by our expert chooser, it's a gift with him “Bridal pearis, from §$1.98 up. Since time immemorial pearls have heen the ideal gift for the bride, but pearls mean tears, so why not a string of imitation pearls? "We have every- thing from the most modest soup- strainer to diamond-mounted umbrelia stands. rything arranged in Eroops. wir way about our special tables. Gifts as low as $2.50 and as high as what have y Hot Bozo! 1 headed straight for that dept.. and when I arrove I cer- tainly had to admire the way the place was arranged—so simple it would confuse the best judgment in the world. June Bride Can * ¥ x % "0 commence with, the goods con- sidered suitable for wedding presents ranged on different tables, see, each table with a sign on it to the effect. “Any article on this table, $50." And the further walked in, the lower the price got. All the customer hadder do was guess what the objects on the table was, point it out the clerk and give him the bride's address and the money. And the first impression I ot . Oh my! what be-utiful things, maybe T wouldn't like to t ‘em all for my own personal home, Hot Bozo, it's gonmer be a cinch to pick out something handsome here, I'll send Miss Nothing & _absolute knockout without no trouble at all. So I walked first up to the $50 table, not that 1 had any intention to buy off of it, but that I thought I would just look it over. Well, there certainly walk some indsome stuff parked there. There »f every denomination. There was vases and varses, both, china dogs and Venetian glass bath: tubs. Also gold enameled cuspidors, plush lined coal hods for Winter use during coal strikes, and the loveliest pair of hand-wrought brass dog-tongs, was 3 to Person |any arms? ‘Why, the details | for picking up pet poodles. | much money, BAND'S CLOTHES.” But while any of them things would of been equally useful to Miss Nothing, I passed ‘em up, on, account Geo. had firmly decided I wouldn't spend that or even charge it, 8o I went along on to the $25 table. And they certainly had stacked up a lot of handsome things there, equally as appropriate to brides. For a sample, there was the cutest cast- iron rolling pin. all studded with rough turquoises, a really elegant electric flat-iron that was made easily detachable for throwing, and a_pair of silver bracelets or handcuffs, I ain’'t sure which, but they would of done for use on either ladies or gents when it come to keeping them home nights, The only real trouble T had to find with this table was that none of the stuff was original enough, it was too kinda ordinary and like what they would be likely to buy for their own selfs. Anyways, what I wanted to send was something odd and notice- able, so's the wedding guests would give me credit when they paraded around looking over the loot. There was only one thing on the §25 table I nearly fell for and that was a silver dill pickie warmer that really looked as if it had come off the $50 table. But I thought, oh well, better look a little further before I decide, let's see what is on the $15 table. Well, honest, it was remarkable what handsome values they had set out @ $15, really they was just as handsome as the §2 iff. 1f a per- son hadn't been in_ the store they would really never know the differ- ence. My, there a statue of the Venus de Milo, you know, the one who's clothes are slipping and she can’t help it on account she hasn't Well, there was a copy of it that you couldn’t hardly tell from the real thing. Also this table had a lovely leather desk set of writing pad and etc. The leather was that kind, the Mumps pattern—embossed 1 guess they call it. Real heavy, in a advanced stage, and colored kinda feverish. But the thing I liked best was a Dresden china_fish-hook platter, only it was breakable I figured it would probably break the very first time she threw it at him. if you get me. But I had pretty near decided on it when my eve caught sight of a table a little ways along with a ten dollar marker standing in the middle of it like a beacon light. So I thought now don't be hasty, a look in time may save a dime. Now believe it or mot, the things at ten simoleons was almost if not every bit as handsome as the higher priced ones at $15. For crylng out loud, what they can’t get up for a ten spot these days! This next table was just as'useful to brides as any other, it having hand-made iron ea muffs, guaranteed to be absolutely conversation proof, and the sweetest vacuum cleaners for cahary bird cages! | ANOTH |AT * oK X x ER useful thing they had waste haskets, extra size, | espec designed for the first of the !month. ‘Also another cute article was a hand-painted magnet for emptying the pockets in husbands’ clothes with out @sturbing their sleep, and chaf. ing dish with handles that would chafe any hand going, even if the bride had been a confirmed golfer. However, I didn't decide on none of these in any hurry neither. Hav. Ing sunk this low in price. 1 felt about to sink a little lower, the rush had kinda got me, and I thought well, after all, why spend all that money? She'll never know the diffe ence! Just lookit what nice things they have got on the five dollar table, why a person couldn’t choose between them, not if they had only five doliars to spend anywaya. On the five doliar table the things certainly was nice. nobody reasonable could really expect anything better. They certainly looked to be worth ten dollars, or maybe fifteen, and after I had hesitated between a red lac- auered dishpan and a solld prass life preserver, all of a sudden I seen ex- actly what I wanted. It was a pink china jardiniere, as big as a washtub, and belleve you me it didn’t look any five dollars’ worth, or any ten nor yet fifteen dollars’ worth, it looked a darn sight nearer to the front door or $50 table, and it certainly made a wonder- ful show for the money. There was only two of them left and I felt, as I give the salesgirl the money, card and address, where nobody could ex- pect anything finer, and I was mighty lucky to get one before they was all gone. So naturally T went out and spent the rest of the afternoon and the rest of the money Geo. had given me, on account I felt I could afford to, hav- ing been so economical, and yet dear Miss Nothing would never know the difference. Well, it was quite late when I come i the house, and there of all things was a enormous package for me and my birthday, from Miss Nothing. Now, I thought, ain’t she the dear, I bet as usual it 1s something elegant. And when T opened it up there was the other pink jardiniere off of the $5 table. And at first I felt something terrible to think how now she would know the price of what I had sent her. ~ But thinking it over I hadder laugh. After all the joke was on her, on account a woman who will bluff like that didn't deserve nothing better! (Copyright. 1926.) all, Medical Member With the Anecdote : And Talkative Bridge Expert at Club BY STEPHEN LEACOCK. MONG the most respected of [\ my fellow members in the club where I sleep in the after- noons is a particularly cheery medical gentleman, whose orte fs relating anecdotes, He no looner enters the club then he looks milingly round through his gold rim- ed glasses, seeking a victim. His stories are told with wonderful lash and power, except for one slight mission, ‘which that vou never inow what the doctor is talking about. [eyond this, his little stories are of ed interest—hut let me fllus- He came into the semi-silence room ) the ciub the other day and sat own beside me. “Have gomething or other “No, thanks,” T answered moke anything?” he asked. o, thanks.” The doctor turned towards me. vidently wanted to talk. “I've been having a rather peculiar xperience,” he said. “Man came to ne the other day—three or four weeks «go—and_sald, ‘Doctor, 1 feel out of lort. 1 believe I've got &0 and so. I said, taking a look at him, ing so and o, eh? ‘Yes' he “Very good, I said, ‘take so “Well, off the fellow went. T nought nothing of it—simply wrote uch and such in my note-book, such ind such a date, symptoms such and uch, prescribed such and such, and La\ forth, you understana?” “Oh, ves, perfectly, doctor,” answered. “Very good. Three days later—a 4ng at the bell in the evening, My <ervant came to the surgery. ‘Mr. 30 and So is here. Very anxious to soe you.’ ‘Al right” 1 went down. IThere ho was, with every symptom of <0 and o written all over him-—every sympton of it—this and this and " he said. He I ymptoms, doctor,” I said he sald. «There he was with every symptom, heart so and so, eves so and so, pulse this. I looked at him right in the lexe and T said, ‘Do you want me to R You the truth? ‘Yes' he said. ery good.” 1 answered, ‘I will. -ou've got so and sc ] “He fell back as if shot. ‘So and he repeated, dazed. s ihe. & it to hil the shoulder. Sllehaard 84 Doursd.him ot . eaide AL-290 IR SIAY-D-Hau bIGES Al RIEDL" D ghide. “HALF A MINUTE” I SAID, “llgl}l\"'l‘ TO GO AND SEE WHAT TIME 17 drink of such and such. I said. He drank it. . “‘Now,’ I said, ‘listen to what I say. You've got so and so. There's only one chence, 1 said, ‘vou must limit yoyr eating and drinking to such and such, you must sleep such and such, avoid every form of such and such. I'll give you a cordial, so many drops every so long, but, mind you, unless you do so and so. it won’t help you.' ‘All right, very good.’ Fellow promised. Of he went.” The doctor paused a then resumed: “Would you believe it. two nights later 1 saw the fellow, after the theater, in a restauran whole party of people: big plate of so and so in front of him: quart bottle of ¢o and 50 on ice ch and such and so forth. 1 stepped over to him, tapped ‘S8ee; here,” I minute and | 1 | Drink this,’ | tions, you can't expect me to treat vou.” 1 walked out of the place.” “And what, happened to him?* I asked. “Died,” said the doctor, in a satis- fied tone. “Died. I've just been filllng in the certificate: So and so, aged such and such, died of so and ‘An awul disease,” I murmured. But whether or not my perplexing medical friend is in the club, I am nearly certain to see there my par- ticular aversion—the member who has just finished a game of bridge and wants to talk about it. One of the very worst of these collared me on my arrival the other afternoon. He came to me in the semi-silence room of the club. “I had & rather queer hand ‘“‘Had you?" I answered, and picked up a newspaper. ‘'Yes. It would have you,. I think,” he went on. ‘Would it?" I said, and moved to another chair. “It was like this,” he continued, following me, “I held the king of hearts—" “Half a minute,” T said, “I want to go and see what time it is.” I went out and looked at the clock in the hall. I came back. “And the queen and the ten—-"" he was saying. “Excuse me just a second; I want to ring for a messenger."” 1 did so. The waiter came and went. ‘And the nine and two small ones, he went on. ““Two small what?" I asked. “Two small hearts,” he said. “I don’t remember which. Anyway, I re- member very well indeed that I had the king and the queen and the ten, the nine and two little ones.” “Half a second,” I said, “I want to mall a letter.” When I came back to him he was still murmuring. “My partner held the ace of clubs and the queen. The jack was out, but I didn’t know where the king W “‘You didn’t?” I said in contempt. No,” he repeated in surprise, and went on murmuring. “Diamonds had gone ‘round once, and spades twice, and so 1 suspected that my partner was leading from weakness—" “I can well belleve it!" I eaid. ‘Well,” he said, “on the sixth round the lead came to me. Now, what should I have done? Finessed for the ace, or led straight into my op- ponent——"" “You want my advice,” T said, “and you shall have it, openly and fairly. In euch a case as you describe, where & man has led out to me repeatedly and with provoocation—as 1 gather from what you say, though I myself do not play bridge—I should lead my whole hand at him. 1 repeat, I do not play bridge. but in the circum- stances I should think it the on thing to do.” ‘ol interested right, 1926, © Twas Ever So. When Noah sailed the ocean biub He had his troubles same as you—. he drove the ark essay Difference Between Geénius and Talent Disclosed When Pay Day Comes Along BY ED WYNN. EAR Mr. Wynn—Would you be kind enough to settle an argument_between my wife and me? I say a person with great talent and a genius are one and the same thing, while my wife says there is a vast difference between the two. Who is right, and wh Yours truly, WRIGHT INGPAD. Answer—Your wife is Fight. The difference between talent and genis is that talent gets paid every Satur- day. Dear Mr. Wynn: 1 have read ‘a great deal about beauty doctors and so-called face lifters. Can you tell me the best way for an aging woman to keep “her good-looking youth”? Truly yvours, B. U. TEEFULL. Answer—The best way for a woman to keep her “youth” is not to intro- duce “him” to any other women. Dear Mr. Wynn: T am a boy 12 years of age and have just entered competition ere are two ubjects to he written ahout. One is rasshopper” and the other s ss Widow." Are these subjects alike, or are they different, and why Sincerely, AMPLE. Answer They are exactly alike, be cause they'll both jump at the first chance. Dear Mr. Wynn: I am president of a debating society, and on next Satur- day we are to debate the following subject, “Who Do the Silllest Things, Men or Women?” It would help us considerably if you would teil me the silliest thing you ever saw a man do. Wil you tell me? Yours truly OPHELIA SOR Answer—The silliest thing 1 ever saw a man do was one day in the post office. 1 saw this man walit around POSTMASTER = g—:- “HE PUSHED FOUR LETTERS WIT ‘“DON'T INTRODUCE HIM TO ANY OTHER WOMAN." for two hours, and the minute he saw the postal clerk turn his back he pushed four letters into the hox with- out stamps, thinking he was saving the postage. Dear Mr. Wynn: Is It true that HOUT STAMPS INTO THE BOX.” everything that goes up must come down? Sincerely, D. POSITOR. Answer-—FEverything that goes up does come down excepting a “bank.” Dear Mr. Wynn: 1 have a very dear friend, a Scotchman, who has Jjust gone back to Scotiand. I happen to know that he would never spend his own money to go back, yet he has gone. How do you think he got back? Yours truly, : TOM KATT Answer—Your friend most likely heard some one sing “The -Bluebells of Seotland” and it carried him back. Dear Mr. Wynn: I know a lady who never got married and she is now 42 years old. 1 asked her why ghe hadn't married and she said: “Why should T get married as long as 1 have a parrot and a monkey?" What did she mean by that? Sineerely. ROME E. OHE Answer—Probably her parrot swears and her monkey chews tobacco, and she figures, therefore, she doesn’t need a husband. Dear Mr. Wynn: I read in this morning’s paper that Congress is try- ing to put through a bill to compel the Government to have nothing but fe- male clerks in the post office, think Congress is right? Yours truly, VOTE TWICE. Answer—Absolutely. Congress has found out that women know how to handle the “males.” Do you Dear Mr. Wynn my class at college ahout 22 3 age. and he has the most peculiar habit I have ever seen. Whenever I look at him he always has something on his nose. For instance, one min- ute he Is juggling a_ feather on his nose. The next time I look at him he has a book on his nose. At another time he'll be strumming a tune on the bridge of his nose with the tips of his fingers. Can you tell me what in the world his idea is? Yours truly, AL. LOOMNUS. Answer—He must be one of those fellows who like to have fun ‘“on their own hook.” Dear Mr. Wynn: My father savs he washes his eyes out every night be- fore going to bed. If this is true, how does he get them back in again? Sincerely, 1. LIDD. Answer—Next week THE PERFECT FOOL. (Coprright. 1926 1 When Vacation Hiking Tour Is Turned Into a Very Successful Annual Outing BY RING LARDNER. O the editor: The vacation sea- | son is with us again and usual at this time of yr. my mail has been fuil of requests from admirerg to give them idears in regards to where to go and what to do on their holiday. Tt looks to me like the most satisfactory way to reply to the ahove is to write a acct. of my own recess of a yr. ago assuring readers that they can worst than duplicate same as it w most renjoyable and interesting well as expensive vacation in all my experience. Will confess at the outset that the fdear was not mine but that of a old pal of mine, Elliott Blufe of Trousers. Vermont. Elliott has been employed for the past few yrs. as a hamper on the N. Y. subway. His duties is to hamper passengers and prospective passengers by starting out the same turnstile they are trying to come in and vice versa, getting in front ef people that are in a hurry and asking them questions, playing he is a guard and calling out the wrong stations, and etc. He uses nis own judgment and gets good results. Ellott lives near us and when I told him I was going on my vacation he said he would go with me and the next ques- tion was where. “Listen,” said Eiliott, on a hik “Hike?” I repeated bewildered. He exclaimed that ‘“‘hike” was just his word for walk and when we stopped laughing it did not take me long to get into the spirit of the thing and help him with the plans. We acted just like a couple of kids. ‘We started from my house on a Sunday morning in June, our packs containing only the articles necessary for comfort and enjoyment. “ach carried a suitcase with dinner clothes, clean shirts, socks and underwear and sleeping bags, a clothes hamper with enough plain food to last a,wk., port- able typewriter, golf bag, card table, box springs, camera, tennis rackets, canoe, shears and paste, and 3 ft. shelf of books. In addition each brought his favorite musical instru- “let us go “THE LITTLE CHAP PROVED ANY- THING BUT DUCTILE” ments, Elliott a harp and trap drums and myself bass viol and tuba. We acted just like a couple of kids and even my wife smiled at us ds we set out, though it was perhaps the smile that hides a tear. ““The main thing to remember on said Elliott, “is to take an interest in Nature. We mustn't pass no beautiful tree or bird without dis- gusting same and night times we on our back and study the was the words out of his mouth when we passed a beautiful w which Elliott identified as & lnnll e “I don’t see how you tell them with- out the apple sauce,” I wondered. Elliott tried to coax the bird into joining our expedition by imitating a duck’s call, but the little chap proved anything but ductile. “They will always follow a real quack.,” ‘said my companion. “I wished we had broughten Dr. Pulver. It must be explained that Dr. Pt ver is a chiropodist here in Great Neck and has lost 97 of his 100 pa- tients. He is not considered . very sure, especially at diagnosis. One of his most notorious blunders was made in the case of Emil Hoostraw, whom he treated for callouses of the heel and whom it turned out was geally suffering from train sickness. e laughable part was that when the autopsy was performed Hoostraw's heels were found to be perfect. “I never seen a man so well heeled,’ Making Tests MITATION gems have increased to such an extent during the last few years that experts seldom rely on one .examination to determine their character, but resort to a five-way test. The steps are simple, says Pop. ular Mechanics, and the practiced per son can perform them in 10 minutes, The first is the inspection of the facets. To do this, a genuine stone is compared with the one being studied, and it is generally folind that the fake has facets more accurate than those of the real one, because the manufac turers take extra care with the grind- ing and polishing of the imitation gem. In the brilliancy test, which fol- lows, a gem that is faked is found to have less sparkle than a real one. This in determined by drop%!:g the stone [leave no t; under sur into & bowl of water. |fail here, Likin & At S e 4 1 b was the comment of Dr, Walrus, the coroner’s physician. “When he came to me, he certainly was calloused,” said Dr. Pulver in- dignantly. Vot _half -as careless as yourself,” rejoined Dr. Walrus, turning the laugh on the older man. However, the two are great cronies oft the screen, amounting almost to an affair. Finely tiring of Elliott's farcical ef- forts to decoy the duckling, I succeed- ed in getting him t8 resume our hike, which was without incidence for the next few yards, but as we came to the first cross street our eyes fell athwart an animal, which my comrade said must be a horse ds it was hitched up with leather fastenings to a milk wagon. “Why not a cow then?’ I asked. orses don't give milk. “And that company wouldn't have b of Diamonds. through the liquid, but an imitation diamond loses its flash. The third step is known as the glob- ule test. A drop of water is placed upon the gem's face and is then touched with the point of a sharp pen- cil. If the stone is genuine, the drop of water keeps its form while on the faked one the globule is broken up and spreads. Next is the dot method. This consists in looking through the ston® at a black spot on a plece of paper or other white surface. If the doi_appewrs in any way blurred, the | stone is held out for further tests, The final and most conclusive part of the ordeal is the marking test. In diamonds, the degree of hardness counts for much. A file will rua smoothly over a genuine stone and . but the best imifations for they cannot stand the withoutrbelag. miarreds N that gave milk.” Elliott re Do you think they are Santa an anin torted. Claus? Both of us had to laugh. We were behaving like a couple of children. There is nothing like a hike to bring out the hest that is 1n a man Another 10 minutes’ “trek us to the Manhasset station Long Island Railroad. “Do you realize,” said Elliott, “that could take a train from here into York and from the same station ew York, take A train to Atlantic brought of the This sounded good to me as we had now been riding “Shank’ mare” for nearly half an hr. 1In little more than another half hr. we had checked everything but our suitcases and golf ‘bags in the big New York station and were on our way to the famous Jer. sey resort. In two weeks we were hack at home with a fine coat of nasal sun- burn and only the vaguest of mem- 3”" in regards to our summer holi ay. By the Pour;d or _buartP HOULD ice cream he sold by the pound or by the quart? What is the best place on a taxicab for a taxi- meter? These are two of the many subjects that are puzzling experts Advisability of selling eggs, fruit and vegetables by weight instead of by measure or by count is being dis- cussed. Massachusetts and New Jer- sey have recently adopted the plan of having dry commodities sold by ‘weight or in standard containers, and this system is widely used throughout the West. Should manufacturers be compelled to mark “net weight” on package goods such as twine, shoe polish and other articles not aiready so labeled under the provisions of the food and drugs act? A number of States have enacted laws requiring the net weight of some commodities to he indicated on the package or hottle, so that the purchaser may know how much he is getting. & A _number of automobile problems are being presented at the conference. One that is attracting special interest ig the use of meters instead of pumps to measure gasoline at filling stations. The conference will also look into the use of hottles which are kept already filled with lubricating oil at service stations, so that an automobile ofl tank can be quickly filled while the car is etting gasoline. Some of these bot- tles are not accurate as measuring de- vices, which means financial loss to motorists, Canyon Fossil Finds. EW finds of footprints of reptiles left in soft sand at least 25,000,- 000 years ago have just been made in sandstone 1,800 feet down from the rim of the Grand Canyon. This is the greatest depth in the canyon at which such prints have been found. ‘The level at which the fossil plants and reptiles have been found belorigs to the latter part of the carboniferous period, or the time when the great coal beds of the world were being formed, and was a few million years before the famous reign of the dino- saurs, One specimen shows a row of tracks very much like mouse tracks impress- ed in a small slab of red stone, and in among fhe tiny footprints is a wavy line which represents the track of the animal's tail. Other -exhibits show prints larger than a man's hand, indi- cating that some of the reptilian cren- tures of this age may have become as large as crocodiles. No bones of these creatures have been found in the Grgpd Canyon, lh.tixuih some ::nu of s making similar tracks have ;&uund elsewhere., b