Show THE MUSEUM OF UNNATURAL HISTORY By Dr Walter E. E The School Exhibit We have Just opened the tho ne new new- School Wing in our Museum where we have an Interesting and timely exhibition of school accessories old school books book globes maps atlases This Is dally daily thronged with groups of oi teachers and scholars absorbed absorbed ab ab- In gazing at many of the things which they have been studyIng studying study study- Ing all their lives without fully un understanding un- un For instance In the Grammar Section we have a number of Jars of word roots some of which have been brought down from very early times and very gnarled and knotted things they are The Pha sr-s sr and cube are roots roots' are kept In the Mathematics Mathe Mathe- matics Department where the smaller children are allowed to play with them on rainy days A valued possession is tho first gold pen of Which makes mention It was ti made for Julius Caesar out of the gold pried from the teeth of Gallic prisoners Mark MarkAnthony Anthony who used to step out quite freely once complained to Caesar that some of the things he were too biting Caesar answered answered an an- Why wouldn't they be My pen sprang from the teeth of savages say sav ages We had an amusing phase jhase In th the Museum on the day of the opening In a small case we have a collection collection tion of tacks which have been placed under Erasmus by Roger Hoge Bacon and aDd so on In the next room the Geometrical Department w we have in a small cage a live old which Will Beebe brought back from Guatemala Someone left the cage door open the trapezoid got I out swallowed tho famous Eras Eras- Bacon mus-Bacon tack which pricked his Insides so painfully that he ho rushed howling all over the Museum and wax was finally found hiding under one of tile the multiplication tables These tables by the way which we use whenever we ve have collations or evening evening eve eve- ning parties are very handsome They are made of quartered oak and were the gift of one of our directors tars tors Mr Theodore |