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That the doughnut is an exceptionally indigestible article.
--178
That one captive balloon in every two containing persons on pleasure bent breaks away from its moorings, and drifts out to sea.
--179
That a workingman always eats what is in his dinnerpail with great relish.
--180
That children were much better behaved twenty years ago than they are today.
--181
That the cas.h.i.+er of a restaurant in adding up a customer's cheque always adds a dollar which is subsequently split between himself and the waiter.
--182
That it is impossible to p.r.o.nounce the word "statistics" without stuttering.
--183
That the profession of white slaving, in 1900 controlled exclusively by Chinamen, has since pa.s.sed entirely under the control of Italians.
--184
That every person in the Riviera lives in a "villa."
--185
That the chief form of headgear among the Swiss is the Alpine hat.
--186
That each year a man volunteers to take his children to the circus merely as a subterfuge to go himself.
--187
That all marriages with actresses turn out badly.
--188
That San Francisco is a very gay place, and full of opium joints.
--189
That an elevator operator never succeeds in stopping his car on a level with the floor.
--190
That they don't make any pianos today as good as the old square ones.
--191
That a man who habitually clears his throat before he speaks is generally a self-important hypocrite and a bluffer.
--192
That Maurice Maeterlinck, the Belgian Dr. Frank Crane, leads a monastic life.
--193
That whenever a vaudeville comedian quotes a familiar commercial slogan, such as "His Master's Voice," or "Eventually, why not now?", he is paid $50 a performance for doing so.
--194
That all Asiatic idols have large precious rubies in their foreheads.
--195
That when the foe beheld Joan of Arc leading the French army against them, a look of terror froze their features and that, casting their arms from them, they broke into a frenzied and precipitate flight.
--196
That the late King Edward VII as Prince of Wales easily got every girl he wanted.
