Category: Humour
DEAR SIR: Though I am not one of your subscribers I am, I believe, one of your most faithful readers. I do not take your magazine, it is true, but I am at present employed in a family some member of which is evidently a subscriber, as the maid brings it out in the waste-paper...
Now I, Sir--I should not be proud of it. I should be miserably ashamed. And so I am ashamed when I read in my program that which brands me as a man of no taste or discrimination...
4. Part 4Of course the fact that you and I have no positive proof of his having been born does not argue that he is not a living man. Every day we meet men who are unquestionably as real...
11. Part 11I was born and reared in the little Missouri town where I now reside. I am personally acquainted with practically every man, woman and child in the place, which, while not exact...
3. Part 3As it is with dancing, so it is with art. The poster insanity has hardly passed away and we are already overwhelmed with a horde of symbolists of one sort or another, who appear...
9. Part 9DEAR SIR: I am an actor; a follower of Thespis, an interpreter of men and emotions. To become such was the dream of my boyhood’s ambition. At an early age (I shall not state whe...
10. Part 10Excepting the human being, we know of no such active or intelligent creature as the ant--the ant who lives in total darkness. Yet does he not build his cities and fight his batt...
5. Part 5Doubtless you fancy that I and the others of my kind concern ourselves with aping the dress and manners of these society people. If so, you were never more mistaken in your life...
2. Part 2An empty stomach does not mean an empty head where authors are concerned. The fact of the matter is, it is easier for men to write great poetry and to think deeply when they are...
1. Part 1DEAR SIR: Though I am not one of your subscribers I am, I believe, one of your most faithful readers. I do not take your magazine, it is true, but I am at present employed in a...
8. Part 8DEAR SIR: It is with alarm that I observe the increasing activity of our charitable organizations and the consequent disappearance of beggars from our city streets. I, who was f...
6. Part 6The influence of clothing upon character has long been recognized, but I do not remember ever to have heard of another case so well illustrating that influence as the case of Mr...
12. Part 12Page 27: The chapter title was printed as “A PURITIAN IN BOHEMIA,” but was changed here to “A PURITAN IN BOHEMIA,” as that matches the spelling in the Table of Contents and in o...