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That, in summer, tan shoes are much cooler on the feet than black shoes.
--158
That every man who calls himself Redmond is a Jew whose real name is Rosenberg.
--159
That General Grant never directed a battle save with a cigar in his mouth.
--160
That there is something slightly peculiar about a man who wears spats.
--161
That the more modest a young girl is, the more innocent she is.
--162
That what a woman admires above everything else in a man is an upright character.
--163
That seafaring men drink nothing but rum.
--164
That no family in the slums has less than six children.
--165
That a piece of camphor worn on a string around the neck will ward off disease.
--166
That a saloon with a sign reading "Family Entrance" on its side door invariably has a bawdy house upstairs.
--167
That the wife of a rich man always wistfully looks back into the past and wishes she had married a poor man.
--168
That all persons prominent in smart society are very dull.
--169
That when ordering a drink of whiskey at a bar, a man always used to instruct the bartender as to the size of the drink he desired by saying "two fingers" or "three fingers."
--170
That all the wine formerly served in Italian restaurants was made in the cellar, and was artificially coloured with some sort of dye that was very harmful to the stomach.
--171
That bootblacks whistle because they are so happy.
--172
That stokers on ocean liners are from long service so used to the heat of the furnaces that they don't notice it.
--173
That what draws men to horse races is love of the sport.
--174
That tarantulas often come from the tropics in bunches of bananas, and that when one of them stings a negro on the wharf he swells up, turns green and dies within three hours.
--175
That a man will do anything for the woman he loves.
--176
That the reason William Gillette, who has been acting for over forty years, always smokes cigars in the parts he plays is because he is very nervous when on the stage.
