Do You Think It's So

Why Is It That Traveling Americans Are Always So Dreadful?

Except For Half A Dozen In Each Town The Citizens Are Proud Of That Achievement Of Ignorance Which Is So Easy To Come By. To Be 'intellectual' Or 'artistic' Or, In Their Own Word, To Be 'highbrow,' Is To Be Priggish And Of Dubious Virtue.

Most Troubles Are Unnecessary. We Have Nature Beaten; We Can Make Her Grow Wheat; We Can Keep Warm When She Sends Blizzards. So We Raise The Devil Just For Pleasure--wars, Politics, Race-hatreds, Labor-disputes.

Winter Is Not A Season, It's An Occupation.

When You Think That Most Of Us Are Doomed By Divine Grace To Roast In Hell, To Say Nothing Of Mortgages And Hail And Bad Crops And Extravagant Womenfolks, 'tain't Any Laughing Matter!