CREMATION OUTDONE.

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume VII, Issue 1064, 6 April 1880, Page 2

CREMATION OUTDONE.

An enterprising scientist has ' jufct patented a process by which human • corpses are turned into ni»*ble-likie f '{ substance warranted to keep w all weathers. In his prospectus, the patentee claims that by this method a man's household can become gra- *« dually embellished with statures of its deceased members, as durable as the * stone kiftfl, and ever so much batter ; likenesses. There is a wild and dreamy poetry about this idea allur?"'*! ing to the imagination, but the scheme has its little drawbacks not- • withstanding. It might he -the Ba4c duty — nay, pleasure— of* the "nOuse^ holder to place his solidified mother-in-law on a pedestal in the front entry — r but how about the dry goods ? Ob- J viously, the mothers-in-law of this locality- at least— would hardly appear sufficiently classical in the pull-back of the period, and yet on the other . hand, what cristallised female autocrat of the domestic circle would seem exactly properly clothed in the. ;i traditional fig-leaf? The corpulent male citizen and tax payer, pensivaJy reclining on a lyre in the admirably ventilated costume of the earlyGreeks, would greatly aid in furnishing the library, but hardjy command the respect of posterity and one's leftr over maiden aunt, perched airily on her big toe, and chasing a presmmfcl butterfly through ethereal space, would probably be anatomically inadequate to the situation, even if embellished with blue streaks over her nose in imitation of the best Carrara marblej