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...loss of the art of the ancients. It is not therefore odd that his depiction of the frontierswoman should resemble a Byzantine cowgirl, shotgun in hand, fearlessly facing whatever the gods may send. Her figure, stately as a cigar store Indian, might almost be expected to be worm-eaten, so true is it to the technique of the early Renaissance...
...there have been many better numbers than this, for the jokes seem to lack that subtlety which is usually the Lampoon's raison d'etre. The funniest of these to me is that on top of page 135. "The Abbot of Oldham" is mildly amusing as is also the worm epic, the last sentence of which approaches the heights of Mr. Larrabee's work in 1921. No so much can be said for the "Inkings" in this number, with the possible exception of the "Ten Guineas". The nod in the direction of George Ade is all well enough, but unnecessary...
...glutting themselves, they practically wiped out Canada's corn crop. Then a hearty band of pilgrims was tossed about, until they set foot in the U. S. Instinctively, they moved westward toward the promised land. The moth flies at the rate of 150 miles a season; the worm nibbles the corn, does the damage. During the last two years, they have been reported in Indiana and many another state but not until last week did they officially cross the border into Illinois. They whetted their man- dibles at the thought of big meals ahead in Illinois, Iowa, Nebraska...
...Miss Texas Guinan's playground she will no doubt hall him as a "big dollar man" from the west and plead with the audience to "give this little boy a hand". And they will--the New Yorkers; they love to give hands to big dollar men. But the worm may turn, the native of the Michigan metropolis may show them that Detroit's income tax figures are not her only boast; the census substantiates-their claim of being city folks. And while they are in full possession of the art of making dollars, neither have they quite forgotten...
...Tenacity. Professor Lorande L. Woodruff of Yale has a microorganism, paramecium, in captivity. It has reproduced itself 8,500 generations (the equivalent of 250,000 years for humans), and has yet died no natural death. Dr. Thomas H. Morgan of Columbia found that 1/250th part of a worm will regenerate and become younger than the original worm. Dr. Alexis Carrel of the Rockefeller Institute for Medical Research has kept a chicken's heart alive and growing for 15 years, longer than any ordinary chicken ever lived. Dr. Carrel sailed for a vacation on the Continent last week...