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She formerly talked of the weather,

The popular book, or the play;

Her old line of chat

Was of this thing or that

In the fashions and fads of the day.

But now she discusses eugenics,

And things that a pundit perplex;

She knocks you quite flat

With her new line of chat,

And her “What do you think about sex?”

“Are we all to shudder at the name of Rabelais and take to smelling salts?” queries an editorial colleague. “Are we to be a wholly lady-like nation?” Small danger, brother. Human nature changes imperceptibly, or not at all. The objection to most imitations of Rabelais is that they lack the unforced wit and humor of the original.

A picture of Dr. A. Ford Carr testing a baby provokes a frivolous reader to observe that when [p 4] />the babies cry the doctor probably gives them a rattle.