You have bad taste in women if you picked one who doesn't trust you enough to let you keep your friends. Or you must be the most pussy-whipped man in New York.

You can retro-engineer it. You look at a roomful of junk and you pay attention to what's lying on what, because that will eventually tell you what fell first.

These are good times for the astonishable reading public.

Besides the above auxiliaries, our author occasionally recommends topical bleeding, exercise, friction, footbaths, &c.