Eve did not use face powder. Methuselah developed peculiarities as he grew old. It is said that he never paid a telephone or gas bill. Samson had his whims. He never went into vaudeville. Noah never cared to take the children to see the animals at the circus. Goliath was another who thought he had one good fight left in him. Christopher Columbus did not go on the lecture platform to tell of his travels. Napoleon always played solitaire before going into a battle; he couldn't run the deck out, and it made him so angry he just had to lick somebody. Euclid invented geometry rather than design dress patterns for his wife. Socrates was henpecked, and was one of the greatest philosophers in the world—but the rule does not hold good any longer. |