CREDITOR

n : One of a tribe of savages © dwelling beyond the Financial Straits and dreaded for their desolating incursions. CREMONA, n. A high-priced violin made in Connecticut. CRITIC, n. A person who boasts himself hard to please because nobody tries to please him. There is a land of pure delight, Beyond the Jordan’s flood, Where saints, apparelled all in white, Fling back the critic’s mud. And as he legs it through the skies, His pelt a sable hue, He sorrows sore to recognize The mi iles that he threw. Orrin Goof. Cro , n. An ancient religious symbol erroneously supposed to owe its significance to the most solemn event in the history of Christianity, but really antedating it by you sands of years. By many it has been believed to be identical with the crux ansata of the ancient phallic worship, but it has been traced even beyond all that we know of that, to the rites of primitive peoples. We have to-day the White Cro as a symbol of chastity, and the Red Cro as a badge of benevolent neutrality in war. Having in mind the former, the reverend Father Ga alasca Jape smites the lyre to the effect following: “Be good, be good!” the sisterhood Cry out in holy chorus, And, to di uade from sin, parade Their various charms before us. But why, O why, has ne’er an eye Seen her of winsome manner And youthful grace and pretty face Flaunting the White Cro banner? Now where’s the need of speech and screed To better our behaving? A simpler plan for saving man (But, first, is he worth saving?) Is, dears, when he declines to flee From bad thoughts that beset him, Ignores the Law as ’t were a straw, And wants to sin—don’t let him. Cul Bono? do me? 64