How much superior to the inhabitants of Jackson, Miss., who fled from their city (1898) because three cases of yellow fever were discovered, were the inhabitants of Munich, Germany, who, in 1874, with 260 deaths from Cholera Asiatica in one day and 14,000 deaths during the ten weeks of epidemic, did not even close the schools, theaters, hotels, in fact continued on living as civilizedly and bravely as in normal times?

Normally those pills give me a boost, but last night they gave me a downer.

I am scanted in the pleasure of dwelling on your actions.

'Cos be they sisters mothers aunts or daughters, all laydeez must be treated tenderly, they're dainty an' they're neat, an' they don't have much to eat […]