from a crowd
years afterward and bash in his head with one colossal blow.

Sec.440

That it is unlucky to put your hat on a bed.

Sec.441

That an old sock makes the best wrapping for a sore throat.

Sec.442

That lighting three cigarettes with one match will bring some terrible
calamity upon one or other of the three smokers.

Sec.443

That milking a cow is an operation demanding a special talent that is
possessed only by yokels, and that a person born in a large city can
never hope to acquire it.

Sec.444

That whenever there is a rough-house during a strike, it is caused by
foreign anarchists who are trying to knock out American idealism.

Sec.445

That, whatever the demerits of Jews otherwise, they are always very kind
to their old parents.

Sec.446

That the Swiss army, though small, is so strong that not even the German
army in its palmy days could have invaded Switzerland, and that it is
strong because all Swiss are patriots to the death.

Sec.447

That when two Frenchmen fight a duel, whether with pistols or with
swords, neither of them is ever hurt half so much as he would have been
had he fought an honest American wearing boxing-gloves.

Sec.448

That whenever Prohibition is enforced in a region populated by negroes,
they take to morphine, heroin and other powerful drugs, and begin
murdering all of the white inhabitants.

Sec.449

That all the great writers of the world now use typewriters.

Sec.450

That all Presidents of the United States get many hot tips on the
stock-market, but that they are too honourable to play them, and so turn
them over to their wives, who make fortunes out of them.

Sec.451

That Elihu Root is an intellectual giant, and that it is a pity the
suspicion of him among farmers makes it impossible to elect him
President.

Sec.452

That no man not a sissy can ever learn to thread a needle or darn a
sock.

Sec.453

That all glass blowers soon or late die of consumption.

Sec.454

That all women who go in bathing at the French seaside resorts affect
very naughty one-piece bathing suits.

Sec.455

That George M. Cohan and Irving Berlin can only play the piano with one
finger.

Sec.456

That farmers always go into gold mine swindles because of the
magnificently embossed stock certificates.

Sec.457

That the Germans eat six regular meals a day, and between times stave
off their appetite with numerous S