Show Famous Shoes Did Not Find Place in Museum Officials of ot the British museum have rather a u humdrum time of ot It anI and their duties consist chiefly of dr dry decorum and concrete facts Once In a while however a little humor creeps In A former superintendent of ot the reading rending room tells how one day a card bearing bearIn bearIng bear- bear In Ing a n highly respectable table name was brought to him with the message that the owner had hud an Important discovery er to communicate You know of ot course said the visitor that tho the king of oC tho the Jews Sold his hla wife for a pair of ot shoes Yes replied the tho official but I have never Ter found absolute confirma confirmation have havo It tion of ot the stor story Then you jOU now was the response There are the shoes I And the speaker produced pro pro- duc d from his tall pocket a n pair of worn and shabby shoes Equal to the occasion the official blandly replied Most Interesting But you ou hn have ve department my lay come com to the wrong dear sir This Is the reading rending room rOOD Go Co what you ou want ant Is antiquities straight down the corridor and tell the policeman at ot the end your our bust busi ness ness |