Someone, of the tribe which goes butterfly hunting with a sixteen-inch gun, asks what can l—writes Showman in the "Daily Horal make of Leonardo da Vinci's assertion that "Men born in hot countries love the night because it makes them cool, and they hate the sunlight because it causes them to grow hot again; and for this reason they are the colour of night, that is, black."
My reply is that I think it a very sensible proposition. It is based on the eternal truth that a little of what you fancy does you good.
Modern science would, I know, prefer to account for the Negro's colour by pre-natal influence in the shape of a procession of black cats which crossed the mothers' paths.
To which I retort that black cats are never so happy as when wandering abroad at night.
Hence their colour. i Scene In House Tuts diverting feud which seems to exist between the Prime Minister and Mr. Lloyd George was carried a stage farther last night—unless I have been misinformed, and I may well have been, says a British columnist—when Mr. Chamberlain informed the House, as an example of his own optimism, that he always turned handsprings in St. James's Park before his daily work, Mr. Lloyd George: "Bah! Couldn't turn handspring if he tried!"
Mr. Chamberlain: "Could, so there!"
"Couldn't!" say!"
"Could! And twice as many as whatever you "Well, who cares, anyhow? Let me tell you there was a time, when, if I turned a handspring, the whole world shook!"
"Oh—to use what I believe is an American expression—yeah?"
Both right honourable gentlemen then showing a high colour and signs of hot, angry tears, Miss Ellen Wilkinson kindly called "Timel" and the debate proceeded.
Pertinent Questions for Husbands Do you use the guest towels instead of leaving them for the use of visitors?
Do you leave used towels in a heap on the floor?
Do you forget to wash off the ring inside tha bathtub?
Do you use the bathtub as a library while everyone else must defer their baths until you are out of it?
Do you leave the shower curtains dripping over the floor?
Do you borrow your wife's cuticle scissors to clean your pipe, or for any other little odd jobs?
Do you undress in the bathroom and forget to remove your clothes when you are ready to leave?
Do you roll up wet towels and stuff them in the racks instead of folding and hanging them properly so they will dry?
Do you half wash your hands and leave the dirt on the towels?
Do you leave the mirrors covered with steam and used razor-blades lying loose where they are a peril to your family?
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