Part 15 (1/2)

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That a sepia photograph of the Coliseum, framed, is a work of art.

--258

That every time one crosses the English Channel one encounters rough weather and is very sea-sick.

--259

That the Navajo blankets sold to trans-continental tourists by the Indians on the station platform at Albuquerque, New Mexico, are made by the Elite Novelty M'f'g. Co. of Pa.s.saic, N.J., and are bought by the Indians in lots of 1,000.

--260

That appendicitis is an ailment invented by surgeons twelve years ago for money-making purposes and that, in the century before that time, no one was ever troubled with it.

--261

That a theatrical matinee performance is always inferior to an evening performance, the star being always eager to hurry up the show in order to get a longer period for rest before the night performance.

--262

That John D. Rockefeller would give his whole fortune for a digestion good enough to digest a cruller.

--263

That a clergyman leads an easy and lazy life, and spends most of his time visiting women paris.h.i.+oners while their husbands are at work.

--264

That it is almost sure death to eat cuc.u.mbers and drink milk at the same meal.

--265

That all bank cas.h.i.+ers, soon or late, tap the till.

--266

That the members of fas.h.i.+onable church choirs, during the sermon, engage in kissing and hugging behind the pipe-organ.

--267