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ON MUSEUMS.

amp has been raise to the fall status of what Pre dent Wilson once defined as "an unfriendly act. That ought to increase its value to philatelists, who, since A new word is wanted to take the place of museum" Accord they are ready to pay large sums ing to the secretary of the Car for specimens which are just negie Survey of Museums Me imperfectly printed, should sure- S. F. Markham, MP, an

ly attach a greatly enhanced successful search has been made value to one which is such a for years for another name compendium of imperfection that "City Treasury and "Treasure it threatens two countries with armed conflict Britain one House" have both been suggest

embarked on a war of Jenkins's ed. Clearly neither will do: The former sounds too much like an Ear, but a war about Nicara ironic euphemism for the City gua's postage stamp would be Hall, while the latter conjures still more of a novelty in the

Un-

“incid-

Jup visions of ancient hoarded history of provocamense of

wealth. Nor does the word "exents." Even at the hibition promise much better, depriving stamp albums of a implying, at it does, a tempor-notable but gloomy exhibit, it is Fary display. As the curator of to be hoped that the tension will diminish and the stamp cease to a Newcastle-on-Tyne musemm ruefully confessed, the trouble is stir up still more trouble for a that there does not appear to world which already has too be any adequate substitute. But much of it. hardly any curator likes the

word. In the minds of most Jolly Barı

It is a legitimate part of the

en-

people the words "museum” and "mausoleum” are all but synony- mous. Museums are still regard- ed by many as dusty, dirty places barber's profession to tell stor- fall of dead things which "oldies, and the customer who fossils" are accustomed to dangers himself by laughing browse over Another objection while he is being shaved has which may occur to language only himself to blame such is students is

the purport of a recent legal de that “museum”

cision at Delhi in India. comes from "muse," and means literally a place dedicated to the is to put a very sharp edge to pursuit of some of those bran the barber's wit, and to leave ches. of learning or art repre- the customer at the mercy of "the most unkindest cut of all.” sented by the nine Muses of an- cient mythology. These presided feast of humour in worse case He comes, in any event, to a respectively over history, come- than Damocles, for every hair on

dy, tragedy, music, dancing, as-

This

a suspended

tronomy, epic poetry, love his face attracts poetry, and sacred song. There blade, and to indulge himself is is not much room under any of to invite catastrophe. If he has those heads for what is general-a strong sense of humour, he ly understood as a modern mus may well elect, after this deci- eur It might attach itself to sion, to keep his beard, and be

merry in hall s the the muse of history in a hum-

Where beards wag all, ble sort of way, and no doubt there are openings in any well- rather than attempt a precarious stocked museum for the muses gravity in the barber's saloon both of comedy and tragedy. He may prefer to laugh in his But anything else would be ex-beard, rather than risk doing so

on the wrong side of his face. ceedingly far-fetched, even

Yet the case of the barber is though it be granted that love- poetry of a sort has been either also a sad one. Unlike Sche inspired or surreptitiously acted herazade, he finds the success of his stories recoiling upon him- during visits to a museum.

self, and his pride, as a tonsorial.. The fact seems to be that, iftist, apt to suffer from a bad museums are to live up to their bit of what Be-Quincey would ~ name, they must have a grea hare called "tooling. It is a deal more poetry and imagina-fficult problem the raconteur tion introduced into them.

A Provocative Stamp

hopes to achieve laughter, the barber a masterpiece of exe tion. As for the customer, who hopes only to achieve a quick

In the world, to-day there will shave, he appears, in the Orient, erautor In be little surprise at news from to be somewhat?

de and the

South America which reports a the Occident, however, his rights state of increasing tension beare better reco tween Nicaragua and Honduras. Lee Tautress and tenterhooks

common condition of

prevalent that titled, if he pre

shaved in se