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--457
That the Germans eat six regular meals a day, and between times stave off their appet.i.te with numerous Schweitzer cheese sandwiches, blutwurst and beer.
--458
That David Belasco teaches his actresses how to express emotion by knocking them down and pulling them around the stage by the hair.
--459
That only Americans travel in the first cla.s.s carriages of foreign railway trains, and that fas.h.i.+onable Englishmen always travel third cla.s.s.
--460
That the whiskey sold in blind pigs contains wood alcohol and causes those who drink it to go blind.
--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.
--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.
--463
That when one goes to a railroad station to meet some one, the train is never on time.
--464
That the theatregoers in the Scandinavian countries care for nothing but Ibsen and Strindberg.
--465
That all doctors write prescriptions illegibly.
--466
That Englishwomen are very cold.
--467
That when the weather man predicts rain it always turns out fair, and that when he predicts fair it always rains.
--468
That lemon juice will remove freckles.
--469
That if a woman wears a string of amber beads she will never get a sore throat.
--470
That no well-bred person ever chews gum.
--471
That all actors sleep till noon, and spend the afternoon calling on women.
--472
That the men who make sauerkraut press it into barrels by jumping on it with their bare feet.
--473
That the moment a n.i.g.g.e.r gets eight dollars, he goes to a dentist and has one of his front teeth filled with gold.
--474
That one never sees a Frenchman drunk, all the souses whom one sees in Paris being Americans.
--475
That a daughter is always a much greater comfort to a mother in after life than a son.
--476
That a man with a weak, receding chin is always a nincomp.o.o.p.
