That a young girl ought to devote herself sedulously to her piano lessons since, when she is married, her playing will be a great comfort to her husband. Sec.26 That all theater box-office employes are very impolite and hate to sell a prospective patron a ticket. Sec.27 That all great men have illegible signatures. Sec.28 That all iron-moulders and steam-fitters, back in the days of freedom, used to get drunk every Saturday night. Sec.29 That if a man takes a cold bath regularly every morning of his life he will never be ill. Sec.30 That ginger snaps are made of the sweepings of the floor in the bakery. Sec.31 That every circus clown's heart is breaking for one reason or another. Sec.32 That a bull-fighter always has so many women in love with him that he doesn't know what to do. Sec.33 That George M. Cohan spends all his time hanging around Broadway cafes and street-corners making flip remarks. Sec.34 That one can never tell accurately what the public wants. Sec.35 That every time one sat upon an old-fashioned horse-hair sofa one of the protruding sharp hairs would stab one through the union suit. Sec.36 That when an ocean vessel collides with another vessel or hits an iceberg and starts to sink, the ship's band promptly rushes up to the top deck and begins playing "Nearer, My God, to Thee." Sec.37 That in no town in America where it has played has "Uncle Tom's Cabin" ever failed to make money. Sec.38 That the tenement districts are the unhealthy places they are because the dwellers hang their bed-clothing out on the fire-escapes. Sec.39 That, in small town hotels, the tap marked "hot water" always gives forth cold water and that the tap marked "cold" always gives forth hot. Sec.40 That every lieutenant in the American army who went to France had an affair with a French comtesse. Sec.41 That when cousins marry, their children are born blind, deformed, or imbecile. Sec.42 That a cat falling from the twentieth story of the Singer Building will land upon the pavement below on its feet, uninjured and as frisky as ever. Sec.43 That the accumulation of great wealth always brings with it great unhappiness. Sec.44 That it is unlucky to count the carriages in a funeral. Sec.45 That the roulette wheel at Monte Carlo is controlled by a wire as thin as a hair which is controlled in turn by a button hidden beneath the rug near the operator's great toe. Sec.46 That Polish women are so little human that one of them can have a baby at 8 A.M. and cook her husband's dinner at noon. Sec.47 That Henry James never wrote a short sentence. Sec.48 That it is bad luck to kill a spider. Sec.49 That German peasants are possessed of a profound knowledge of music. Sec.50 That every coloured cook has a lover who never works, and that she feeds him by stealing the best part of every dish she cooks. Sec.51 That George Bernard Shaw doesn't really believe anything he writes. Sec.52