--237

That Jules Verne antic.i.p.ated all the great modern inventions.

--238

That a man is always a much heartier eater than a woman.

--239

That all the girls in Mr. Ziegfeld's "Follies" are extraordinarily seductive, and that at least 40 head of bank cashiers are annually guilty of tapping the till in order to buy them diamonds and Russian sables.

--240

That a college soph.o.m.ore is always a complete ignoramus.

--241

That rubbers in wet weather are a preventive of colds.

--242

That if one eats oysters in a month not containing an "r," one is certain to get ptomaine poisoning.

--243

That a woman with a 7-1/2-C foot always tries to squeeze it into a 4-1/2-A shoe.

--244

That no shop girl ever reads anything but Laura Jean Libbey and the cheap s.e.x magazines.

--245

That there is something peculiar about a man who wears a red tie.

--246

That all Bolsheviki and Anarchists have whiskers.

--247

That all the millionaires of Pittsburgh are very loud fellows, and raise merry h.e.l.l with the chorus girls every time they go to New York.

--248

That a man of fifty-five is always more experienced than a man of thirty-five.

--249

That new Bermuda potatoes come from Bermuda.

--250

That the boy who regularly stands at the foot of his cla.s.s in school always turns out in later life to be very successful.

--251

That the ornamental daggers fashioned out of one hundred dollars' worth of Chinese coins strung together, which one buys in Pekin or Hong Kong for three dollars and a quarter, are fashioned out of one hundred dollars' worth of Chinese coins.

--252

That it is hard to find any one in Hoboken, N.J., who can speak English.

--253

That the head-waiter in a fashionable restaurant has better manners than any other man in the place.

--254

That a girl always likes best the man who is possessed of a cavalier politeness.

--255

That the most comfortable room conceivable is one containing a great big open fireplace.

--256

That brunettes are more likely to grow stout in later years than blondes.