Judge — November 12, 1927 — page 26: what you’re looking at

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Leaves from Myrtles sketchbook By Harry Grant Dart know. that a notable Egyptian sun god spells his name with his initials and be likewise ignorant of the fact that a once-flourish ing Babylonian muni- cipality used a similar economy. of | letters getting itself 1 on a post. offi Because didn’t _know about and “Ur,” is not a rea son why he should be ca intellectual disaster and told that Honduras, the parrot, ranks him in brains. yrtle’s papa claims that he can crossword puzzles as well as Cousin Bruce or any similar dumbell of his weight and calibre, but her ma- ma says that were her papa asked to Breathing and Hot Air Go and watch the baby when he is asleep. See how his chest rises and falls, then rises and falls again, just like the stock market, all by itself, with no hose attachments or force pumps. Ask teacher if she has a baby. He does not know what he is doing, he is not interested, he is too young to inhale, yet he is breathing just as if he were an inveterate smoker. He began to breathe on Tuesday night, and he will not stop for a heck of a while, unless you put corks in his nose. If you were to awaken him and say: “Pardon me, baby, but you are breathing,” he would look surprised and say: He does it without thinking. Get teacher to tell you how thought- less babies are. There is a patented bellows in each of us that takes care of our breathing when we are asleep. If this machine becomes too noisy, somebody will sock you, and you'll have to start all over again, after the carbon has been removed, Don’t think you're smart just be- cause you can breathe—almost everyone can do it. Ask teacher if she can breathe. See how long you can hold your breath without cheating. Isn't it capital fun? In some places men dive in the ocean for pearls. They are called clam diggers and can’t breathe under water. They pick up the empty shells on the bottom and the longer they stay under, the more shells and exhausted and_ define id “meow, mice and had it was an alle- caug’ id think kittens, he woul gator, n was called to its mouse catching activities, in which case he would probably say it was a rattrap or an owl. they get. They don’t dare take a breath because the salt water makes them thirsty. Yet even these pearl divers cannot go with- out an occasional breath. If you should hold a bird in your hand, and if he were per- fectly quiet and did not breathe, besides being worth two in the bush, you could figure he was dead, for breathing is tant for birds and horses for you and me and teacher. No one needs to tell us that what we suck in is air, mixed with various things. Air is found in lots of places, such as toy balloons, bicyele tires, and Congressmen. Now this air is a mixture of gases, smoke and dust. Indeed, the gas we use for frying eggs is different from the gases we breathe in three ways: 1. It will kill us if we're care- ful to stuff up all the cracks and leave a note. Catactysmic Moments Mr. Berlitz runs out of language. comicbooks.com