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  The
  Mania of the Nations
  on the Planet Mars
  and its Terrific Consequences

  A Combination of Fun and Wisdom
  by
  A. CALMADENKER

  Published in the Year 55 E.D. on Mars
  (1915 A.D. on Earth)
  BY THE DENKER PUBLISHERS, INC.
  30 CHURCH STREET, NEW YORK




  Copyright, 1915
  by THE DENKER PUBLISHERS, INC.




THE MANIA OF THE NATIONS ON THE PLANET MARS


Many millions of centuries ago, when the celestial globe on which
we live and struggle started to emerge from the hot-air habit and
commenced to cool down and come to its senses, a huge mass of
syrup-like material sagged down toward the lower end of the cooling
ball and, upon further cooling, formed a high promontory at what we
to-day call the South Pole. As a consequence we now find there a
plateau of an elevation far exceeding in height the highest mountains
found elsewhere on our venerable globe.

You may imagine if you can how cold it must be there. The North Pole
is supposed to be cool enough for anybody who hates to go to sleep in
an overheated bedroom; but it has been shown to be a depression in
the earth’s crust filled with ice, and it therefore does not mount
far above sea level, while the South Pole, aside from lacking the
sun’s comforting perpendicular rays, reaches besides so high up in the
atmospheric layers as to preclude all possibility of the prevalence of
hot birds. Cold bottles are about the only means