| Show long lived moon superstition old foresters have the strongest opinions as to the influence of the moon on timber in the royal ordinances of france for the con serration atlon of forests it was laid down that timber especially oaks should be ba felled only in the wane of the moon and the belief superstition sti tion it if you like to call it still persists in both france and england the idea is that timber felled at these times Is less liable to rot than when felled during the wax wat the belief dates back to roman times southern educators are again arl arling arguing ing the question whether the southern whites get their soft drawl from the negroes or vice versa about as hard to determine as the old one about which came first the egg or the chicken you hate to be a schoolboy in south america and have to learn the names of all the revolutionary generals and the dates of the revolutions some economists tell us that out of this depression will come a cure to end all future depressions didot we hear something a few years ago about a war that was to end all wars |
