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Title: Crankisms

Author: Lisle de Vaux Matthewman

Illustrator: Clare Victor Dwiggins

Release Date: December 5, 2006 [EBook #20024]

Language: English

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Crankisms

By
Lisle
de
Vaux
MATTHEWMAN

Pictured
By
Clare
Victor
DWIGGINS

* MCMI *
HENRY T.
COATES & CO.
PHILADELPHIA

Copyright, 1901, by
Henry T. Coates & Company.
_All rights reserved._

If I may be permitted to offer a suggestion, the Crankisms
should be read in the spirit in which sermons are listened
to--with the object of discovering whom they hit. This will
furnish amusement, for what is more entertaining than trying
the cap on others?

The settings speak for themselves; but the author desires
to express his indebtedness to the artist for having infused
life into and lent grace to dead bones of words, and for
having, in many cases, given to those words a deeper and
more subtle meaning than they themselves could be made to
express.

L. de V. M.

May,
1901.

1

The kisses of an enemy are deceitful, but not as deceitful
as the advice of the friend who is always counseling you for
your own good.

2

The best and the worst in man respond only to woman's
touch--unfortunately for man.

3

Men reason; women do not. Woman has no logic, and judging
from the use it is to man, is better off without it.

4

The present arrangement of society refuses to many the
means to live, while forbidding them the right to die when
they wish.

5

Woman generally tries to attract a man's eye, and then
blames him for being caught by prettiness and superficial
charms. But she rarely tries to appeal to his better self.

6

The man who is pockmarked has most to s