CUNNING

n : (Latin) What good would that The faculty that distinguishes a weak animal or person from a strong one. It brings its po e or much mental satisfaction and great material adversity. An Italian proverb says: “The furrier gets the skins of more foxes than a es.” CUPID, n. The so-called god of love. This bastard creation of a barbarous fancy was no doubt inflicted upon mythology for the sins of its deities. Of all unbeautiful and inappropriate conceptions this is the most reasonle and offensive. The notion of symbolizing sexual love by a semi sexle babe, and comparing the pains of pa ion to the wounds of an arrow—of introducing this pudgy homunculus into art gro ly to materialize the subtle spirit and suggestion of the work—this is eminently worthy of the age that, giving it birth, laid it on the doorstep of posterity. CURIOSITY, n. An objectionable quality of the female mind. The desire to know whether or not a woman is cursed with curiosity is one of the most active and insatiable pa ions of the masculine soul. 65