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PREJUDICES
BY
CHARLES MACOMB FLANDRAU
Author of “Viva Mexico!” “The Diary of a
Freshman,” “Harvard Episodes,” etc.
NEW YORK AND LONDON
D. APPLETON AND COMPANY
1911
Copyright, 1911, by
D. APPLETON AND COMPANY
Published May, 1911
Printed in the United States of America
These extracts from my notebook originally appeared in TheBellman. For permission to reprint them I beg to thank the editor.
C. M. F.
A BIRTHDAY PRESENT
FOR
R. B. F.
CONTENTS
| PAGE | |
| Some Dogs | 3 |
| Little Pictures of People | 21 |
| Wanderlust | 43 |
| Travel | 69 |
| Fellow Passengers | 87 |
| Parents and Children | 99 |
| What Is Education? | 115 |
| Just a Letter | 131 |
| In the Undertaker’s Shop | 151 |
| Writers | 167 |
| “Ann Veronica” | 185 |
| Holidays | 207 |
| Servants | 223 |
| Mrs. White’s | 239 |
SOME DOGS
WHEN the occasion is propitious, I always find it interesting to ask aperson I don’t know well if he, or she, is fond of dogs. Thepropitiousness of the occasion is perfect, however, only when there is adog in the same room or on the same piazza, or wherever we, for themoment, happen to be talking. The reply to this question is to me a kindof exquisitely personal barometer. From it I have always been able togauge with extreme accuracy the degree to which my sympathy andfriendship with him who makes it