Category: Humour

Of All Things

These sketches appeared originally in _Vanity Fair_, _The New York Tribune Sunday Magazine_, _Collier's Weekly_, _Life_, and _Motor Print_, all but two of these magazines immediately afterward having either discontinued publication or changed hands. To those which are old enou...

Chapters

3. Part 3

However, although I am an amateur, I shall have to adopt, in my writing, the tone of a professional, or I shall never get any one to believe what I say. If, therefore, from now...

4. Part 4

By this I mean the cultivation of an exact aim in shoveling coal into the fire box. In my own case (if I may be permitted to inject the personal element into this article for on...

2. Part 2

Take Miss Clarissa Harlowe, for instance. In Richardson's book (which, in spite of my personal aversion to it, has been hailed by every great writer, from Pope to Stevenson, as...

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At any rate, it was but the work of a minute for me to realize that I had entered by a service entrance into the grand dining-room of the establishment, where, if you are not in...

5. Part 5

But the trouble with these writers is that they are all successful. There is too much sameness to their stuff. They have their little troubles at first, it is true, such as lack...

10. Part 10

For instance, take the word "equites," which follows "equinox" in the encyclopedia. What do you know about equites, Mr. Businessman? Of course, you remember in a vague way that...

1. Part 1

These sketches appeared originally in _Vanity Fair_, _The New York Tribune Sunday Magazine_, _Collier's Weekly_, _Life_, and _Motor Print_, all but two of these magazines immedi...

6. Part 6

First, I tried out what is known as the Bay State Lunch, so called because on Thursdays they have a fishcake special. It is one of the hundreds of "self-serving" lunchrooms, whe...

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We next come to the class of tonneau-freight who are great believers in what Professor Muensterberg called "Auto-Suggestion." These people, although not seated in the driver's s...

9. Part 9

I don't go in much for scenario writing myself, but I am willing to help along the cause of better moving-pictures by offering herewith an outline for a six-reel feature entitle...

11. Part 11

The Gargantua is the result of a dream. Henry L. McFern (now president of the Gargantua Co.), was the dreamer. Mr. McFern wanted something that would revolutionize the truck bus...