Morley's Quip

Sitting on the seashore in Normandy, dangling his feet over a cliff and cursing French pipe tobacco, Christopher Morley (famed colyumist) conceived an idea. He scrawled his pen over a piece of paper and sent it to a friend in the U. S. Said the sheet:

"Why wasn't Frank Munsey called Joshua? He made the Sun stand still."*

The Sun (New York) is a great paper. Mr. Munsey has fostered it and buttressed it with the corpses of other great papers, which he bought at large expense. The Sun's circulation grows steadily. Mr. Morley must have been thinking of the Sun's content--not its extent.

*"Then spake Joshua to the Lord in the day when the Lord delivered up the Amorites before the children of Israel, and he said in the sight of Israel, Sun, stand thou still upon Gibeon; and thou, Moon, in the valley of Ajalon.

"And the sun stood still, and the moon stayed, until the people had avenged themselves upon their enemies. Is not this written in the book of Jasher? So the sun stood still in the midst of heaven and hasted not to go down about a whole day.

"And there was no day like that betore it or after it, that the Lord hearkened unto the voice of a man: for the Lord fought for Israel."--JOSHUA 10: 12.