There's the Cat Trust

And the Rat Trust,

The Bathtub and the Switch;
There's the "Hot Air"

And Commission Trust,
Ad nauseam, add Itch.

There's the Donkey Trust
And the Monkey Trust,'

The Rockinghorse and Top;
There's the Hat Trust

And the Tip Trust,

The Catnip Trust and Hop.

Now, I could mention many more,

But in mercy I refrain

From wounding your poor hearts too sore,

And starting salty rain.

TRUST MAD-(Continued)

But ere I close the record,
And escape far down the hall,
I must speak of the "Baby" Trust,
The "howlingest" of all.

-JOHN D. ARCHBOLD.

THE

ESSENTIAL FACTORS

HE essential factors in all great art are its truth and its beauty.

And its purpose is to make him who beholds it aware of the capacity for truth and beauty within his own consciousness.

-BERTHA J. TAPPER.

AT

A RHYME FOR CHARITY

T making rhymes, I've said at times,
I'd never try to do it;

But, for the sick, I'll try the trick,

And trust I'll never rue it.

For I've the hope, helped by my "dope,"
Weak babies may get stronger,
And, as they grow, with healthful glow,
They'll need my rhymes no longer.

-GEORGE A. POST.

IF A BODY

F a body hear a baby

IF

Give faint, hungry cry,
Surely, surely not a body'll
Pass that baby by!

If each body help some baby
In this world of strife,
Babyhood will bless that body,

Bless her thro' all life!

-KATE LANGLEY BOSHER.

UPSIDEDOWNIA

THE now con

HE strangest things now come to pass,

O how can such things be!

High in the air men fight, alas!
Or kill beneath the sea.

The soldier is a troglodyte*
And thus avoids the Krupp;

Yet if he does the thing up right

He blows an air-ship up.

And when he's threatened from below

He turns with vision keen,

And with a well-directed blow

He sinks a submarine.

Quite topsy turvy all of this;
Now, Edison, please strive
To make a gun (O joy, O bliss)
To shoot the dead alive.

-DR. HARVEY W. WILEY.

*One who lives in a cave.