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Sec.57

That surgeons often kill patients for the sheer pleasure of it.

Sec.58

That ten drops of camphor in half a glass of water will prevent a cold.

Sec.59

That the first thing a country jake does when he comes to New York is to
make a bee line for Grant's Tomb and the Aquarium.

Sec.60

That if one's nose tickles it is a sign that one is going to meet a
stranger or kiss a fool.

Sec.61

That if one's right ear burns, it is a sign that some one is saying nice
things about one.

Sec.62

That if one's left ear burns, it is a sign that some one is saying mean
things about one.

Sec.63

That French women use great quantities of perfume in lieu of taking a
bath.

Sec.64

That a six-footer is invariably a virtuoso of amour superior to a man
of, say, five feet seven.

Sec.65

That a soubrette is always fifteen or twenty years older than she looks.

Sec.66

That what impels most men to have their finger-nails manicured is a
vanity for having manicured finger-nails.

Sec.67

That water rots the hair and thus causes baldness.

Sec.68

That when one twin dies, the other twin becomes exceedingly melancholy
and soon also dies.

Sec.69

That one may always successfully get a cinder out of the eye by not
touching the eye, but by rolling it in an outward direction and
simultaneously blowing the nose.

Sec.70

That if one wears light weight underwear winter and summer the year
'round, one will never catch a cold.

Sec.71

That a drunken man is invariably more bellicose than a sober man.

Sec.72

That all prize-fighters and baseball players have their hair cut round
in the back.

Sec.73

That the work of a detective calls for exceptionally high sagacity and
cunning.

Sec.74

That on the first day of the season in the pleasure parks many persons,
owing to insufficiently tested apparatus, are regularly killed on the
roller-coasters.

Sec.75

That a play, a novel, or a short story with a happy ending is
necessarily a commercialized and inartistic piece of work.

Sec.76

That a person who follows up a cucumber salad with a dish of ice-cream
will inevitably be the victim of cholera morbus.

Sec.77

That a Sunday School superintendent is always carrying on an intrigue
with one of the girls in the choir.

Sec.78

That it is one of the marks of a gentleman that he never speaks evil of
a woman.

Sec.79

That a member of