CONTENTS.

CONTENTS.

CHAP.

PAGE

I.

Are we as interesting as we think we are?

1

II.

Should women be beautiful?

16

III.

When is the best time to be merry?

29

IV.

Do we lie a-bed too late?

46

V.

Should married men play golf?

60

VI.

Are early marriages a mistake?

74

VII.

Do writers write too much?

89

VIII.

Should soldiers be polite?

105

IX.

Ought stories to be true?

122

X.

Creatures that one day shall be men

141

XI.

How to be happy though little

158

XII.

Should we say what we think, or think what we say?

173

XIII.

Is the American husband made entirely of stained glass

186

XIV.

Does the young man know everything worth knowing?

199

XV.

How many charms hath music, would you say?

213

XVI.

The white man’s burden!  Need it be so heavy?

225

XVII.

Why didn’t he marry the girl?

238

XVIII.

What Mrs. Wilkins thought about it

251

XIX.

Shall we be ruined by Chinese cheap labour?

264

XX.

How to solve the servant problem

278

XXI.

Why we hate the foreigner

292