WANTED TO KNOW WHY.

Marlborough Express, Volume XLIII, Issue 117, 15 May 1909, Page 6

WANTED TO KNOW WHY.

There was something in the atmosphero which told him that things were not exactly the same. Silence followed soon after the usual greetings, but at length she spoke. "Are you aware, sir/ she began, "that one hand of the Bartholdi statue at the entrance to New York Harbour measures sixteen feet five inches?"

"So I have heard," he nodded, happy to be addressed again. "The thickness of the head from

ear to ear," she pursued, icily, "is ten feet." . "Yes." "The nose is four feet sis inches long.". "That's .right." ■ "The mouth is three feet across. "I believe so. Just imagine it-I "The waist is .! thirty-five feet around." ; ' "Y-yes. Why?" . . ; "Then will you, kindly explain, sir," she continued, "why you stated in the poem, whjch you addressed to me that I reminded you of the Goddess of Liberty?"