nted by surgeons twelve years ago
for money-making purposes and that, in the century before that time, no
one was ever troubled with it.

Sec.261

That a theatrical matinee performance is always inferior to an evening
performance, the star being always eager to hurry up the show in order
to get a longer period for rest before the night performance.

Sec.262

That John D. Rockefeller would give his whole fortune for a digestion
good enough to digest a cruller.

Sec.263

That a clergyman leads an easy and lazy life, and spends most of his
time visiting women parishioners while their husbands are at work.

Sec.264

That it is almost sure death to eat cucumbers and drink milk at the same
meal.

Sec.265

That all bank cashiers, soon or late, tap the till.

Sec.266

That the members of fashionable church choirs, during the sermon,
engage in kissing and hugging behind the pipe-organ.

Sec.267

That women who are in society never pay any attention to their children,
and wish that they would die.

Sec.268

That if one gets one's feet wet, one is sure to catch cold.

Sec.269

That all French women are very passionate, and will sacrifice everything
to love.

Sec.270

That when a drunken man falls he never hurts himself.

Sec.271

That all Chinese laundrymen sprinkle their laundry by taking a mouthful
of water and squirting it out at their wash in a fine spray; and that,
whatever the cost of living to a white man, the Chinese laundryman
always lives on eight cents a day.

Sec.272

That if one fixes a savage beast with one's eye, the beast will remain
rooted to the spot and presently slink away.

Sec.273

That if one eats cucumbers and then goes in swimming, one will be seized
with a cramp.

Sec.274

That hiccoughs may be stopped by counting slowly up to one hundred.

Sec.275

That newspaper reporters hear, every day, a great many thumping scandals
that they fail to print, and that they refrain through considerations of
honour.

Sec.276

That the young East Side fellow who plays violin solos at the
moving-picture theatre around the corner is so talented that, if he had
the money to go to Europe to study, he would be a rival to Kreisler
within three years.

Sec.277

That Paderewski, during the piano-playing days, wore a wig, and was
actually as bald as a coot.

Sec.278

That lightning never strikes twice in the same place.

Sec.279

That