chweitzer cheese sandwiches, blutwurst
and beer.

Sec.458

That David Belasco teaches his actresses how to express emotion by
knocking them down and pulling them around the stage by the hair.

Sec.459

That only Americans travel in the first class carriages of foreign
railway trains, and that fashionable Englishmen always travel third
class.

Sec.460

That the whiskey sold in blind pigs contains wood alcohol and causes
those who drink it to go blind.

Sec.461

That wealthy society women never wear their pearl necklaces in public,
but always keep them at home in safes and wear indistinguishable
imitations instead.

Sec.462

That the late Charles Yerkes had no less than twenty girls, for each of
whom he provided a Fifth Avenue mansion and a yearly income of $50,000.

Sec.463

That when one goes to a railroad station to meet some one, the train is
never on time.

Sec.464

That the theatregoers in the Scandinavian countries care for nothing but
Ibsen and Strindberg.

Sec.465

That all doctors write prescriptions illegibly.

Sec.466

That Englishwomen are very cold.

Sec.467

That when the weather man predicts rain it always turns out fair, and
that when he predicts fair it always rains.

Sec.468

That lemon juice will remove freckles.

Sec.469

That if a woman wears a string of amber beads she will never get a sore
throat.

Sec.470

That no well-bred person ever chews gum.

Sec.471

That all actors sleep till noon, and spend the afternoon calling on
women.

Sec.472

That the men who make sauerkraut press it into barrels by jumping on it
with their bare feet.

Sec.473

That the moment a nigger gets eight dollars, he goes to a dentist and
has one of his front teeth filled with gold.

Sec.474

That one never sees a Frenchman drunk, all the souses whom one sees in
Paris being Americans.

Sec.475

That a daughter is always a much greater comfort to a mother in after
life than a son.

Sec.476

That a man with a weak, receding chin is always a nincompoop.

Sec.477

That English butlers always look down on their American employers, and
frequently have to leave the room to keep from laughing out loud.

Sec.478

That the most faithful and loving of all dogs is the Newfoundland.

Sec.479

That a man always dislikes his mother-in-law, and goes half-crazy every
time she visits him.

Sec.480

That if one doesn't scratch