He uses Calox tooth powder, Colgate’s shaving soap, a double strength witch hazel, a Gillette razor, and Kitchell’s Horse Liniment. He has never taken quinine, Peruna, Piso’s Cough Syrup, Sanatogen, asperin, morphine, opium, or castor oil—but he has taken everything else. He believes Mencken eats too much. He has been inoculated against typhoid. He once, as a boy, ran a railroad locomotive from Cleveland, Ohio, to Chagrin Falls, Ohio, killing only two cows. He gets a cinder in his eye on an average of twice a day. He can drink anything but sweet cordials. With his meals, he uses Cross and Blackwell’s chow-chow. In his undergraduate days he was an editor of all the Cornell University papers. He wrote articles on the theater for the old _Harper’s Weekly_ for four years. He knows three jockeys, eight bartenders, one murderer, two sea captains, three policemen, one letter carrier, and one politician. He is a warm friend of Detective William J. Burns. He likes buttermilk. Christmas costs him, on the average, about a thousand dollars. For the last two years he has received weekly anonymous letters from some woman in Bridgeport, Connecticut, who signs herself with the initials “L. G.” He is writing the introduction to Arthur Hopkins’ new book on the drama. He has not ridden a horse since May 22, 1908. In October, 1912, he and his broker were wrecked off Barnegat in the latter’s yacht, _Margo I_, and were rescued via a breeches buoy by the Barnegat life-saving crew. He never reads popular novels. Mr. Winthrop Ames has invited him to write a satirical review for his Little Theater in New York and Nathan is planning to do the thing during 1918. He eats two raw eggs a day to put on weight. When the victim of a bad cold and unable to smoke, he chews soft licorice candy while writing. He believes that George Bickel is the funniest comedian on the American stage, that Arnold Daly is the best actor, that Margaret Illington is the best actress. He has never written a thing that, upon rereading after its appearance in print, didn’t seem to him to be chock full of flaws. He is lucky at games of chance, though he seldom plays. In 1912 he won $2,000 in the Havana lottery. He owns six belts, one of them presented to him by Gabriele D’Annunzio and made of wolf hide. He is in favor of universal military service, imperialism, and birth-control, but is opposed to woman suffrage, the direct primary, and prohibition. His usual pulse is 71 a minute. After drinking it rises to 85. He keeps no books of account, and does not know his exact income. As a means of defense against sudden calamity he keeps $3000 in gold in a safe deposit vault. His favorite name for girls is Helen. If he could rechristen himself, he would choose the given name of John. He pronounces his middle name, not in the French manner, but to rhyme with bean.