USE YOUR BRAINS

Manawatu Times, Volume LIII, Issue 6630, 8 June 1928, Page 3

USE YOUR BRAINS

THE CONSERVATIVE DIPLODOOUS A bright wit leavened the address ot Miss Maudie Eoydon in the Burns Hall, Dunedin, and she caused hearty laughter in her humorous illustration of why wo should use our brains. Some dear old people, she said, tried to tell us that if God had meant us to fly He would have’ given us wings. “God has given us brains,” Miss Roy* den said, “and Ho meant us to use them.” She enlarged on this point by remarking on the prehistoric animals which were charmingly illustrated in 11. G. Well's ‘Outline of History. 1 They looked, she said ,caxctly like the griffin and the mock turtle in ‘Alice in Wonderland.’ There was, for instance, the gigantos aurus. He was 200 ft long. A couple of him, Miss Hoyden declared, would have made a gorgeous audience in Burns Hall, but if he had been met going home, the argument, one would readily agree, might have been one-sided. But what had happened to him? Ho had disappeared, and why? “You will remember,” she said, “That the diplodocus had a very small head and almost no brains. Some change occurred in his surroundings. What was his reaction to that danger? 'I can’t change,’ he said. ‘I am 75ft. long. I always was 75 ft long. I always will be 75ft long. My father was 75ft long before me, and what is good enough for my father is good enough for me.’ “That w r as the cause of his disappearance. ’ ’