THE DISCOVERY OF THE WORLD

    In the first geography we are told of a young married couple who were cast into the world for a pomological error on their part, about 4000 B.C.

    Some seventeen centuries later, the world was lost sight of in a deluge.

    It was re-discovered by a navigator named Noah who, though barely six hundred years old, was the commander of a sea-going menagerie.

    Commander Noah, after cruising about for twelve months and ten days, landed from his zoölogical water-wagon upon a precipitous Asiatic Jag called Ararat on the twenty-seventh of February, 2300 B.C.

     THE HABITABLE GLOBE

    The term “Habitable Globe” was doubtless invented by some Celestial Humorist who had never visited this planet.

    People live on it, to be sure, but they have no choice. There is nowhere else to live.

    The Giddy Globe ...*

    * Isn’t it about time to drop this

    personal simile?

      The Reader.

    ... Quite so. Suppose we consider the Globe as an Apartment House.

    We are told it was finished in six days. No wonder it is faultily constructed.

    The Heating Apparatus is out of date. The apartments nearest to the Radiator are insufferably hot, those farthest away unbearably cold, and those between too changeable for comfort.

    The Water Supply is unreliable. In some

    apartments, great numbers perish every year from thirst.

    In the cellar there is a munition factory where, in defiance of regulations, there are stored High Explosives. These blow up from time to time, causing great damage and loss of life among the tenants.

    The 

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