"That isn't a check. That's the house chemist's certificate."
The curator of the museum was classifying Egyptian curios. He observed a perplexed expression on the face of his young assistant.
"What seems to be the matter, Jones?" he asked. "Is there anything you don't understand?"
"Yes, sir," answered the helper. "Here is a papyrus on which the characters are so badly traced that they are indecipherable. How shall I classify it?"
"Let me see," said the curator, examining the piece. "Just call it a doctor's prescription in the time of Pharaoh."
Spirit writing—the modern doctor's prescription—Life.
See also Names, Personal.