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Title:
Mark Twain's helpful hints for good living : a handbook for the damned human race / Mark Twain ; edited by Lin Salamo, Victor Fischer, and Michael B. Frank of the Mark Twain Project.
Author:
Twain, Mark, 1835-1910.

Salamo, Lin.

Fischer, Victor, 1942-

Frank, Michael B.

Bancroft Library. Mark Twain Project.
Publication Information:
Berkeley : University of California Press, c2004.
Call Number:
PS1303 .S25 2004
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ISBN:
9780520242456
Series:
Jumping frogs ; 2

Jumping frogs ; 2.
Physical Description:
xiv, 207 p. : ill. ; 22 cm.
General Note:
"The Mark Twain Project is a research and editorial project housed within the Mark Twain Papers at the Bancroft Library, Univ. of Calif., Berkeley."
Contents:
1. Everyday etiquette. A letter of apology ; About the effect of intemperate language ; Be good, be good--a poem ; An innovative dinner party signal system ; About American manners ; Breaking it gently ; Courtesy to unexpected visitors ; At the funeral ; A telephonic conversation -- 2. Modest proposals and judicious complaints. A Christmas wish ; Proposal regarding local flooding ; Complaint about unreliable service ; Notice about a stolen umbrella ; An appeal against injudicious swearing ; An unwanted magazine subscription ; On telephones and swearing ; About the proposed street-widening ; Political economy ; Notice: To the next burglar ; Suggestion to persons entering Heaven -- 3. The American table. Memories of food on an American farm ; American versus European food ; An inauspicious meal ; A remarkable dinner ; Food and scenery -- 4. Travel manners. Traveling in close quarters ; Communicating with the locals ; A night excursion in a hotel room -- 5. Health and diet. Young Sam Clemens and old-time doctoring ; The "wake-up-Jake" ; A healthful cocktail ; A miracle cure ; Experience of the McWilliamses with membranous croup ; Smoking, diet, and health at age seventy -- 6. Parenting and the ethical child. The late Benjamin Franklin ; On theft and conscience ; On training children ; A sampling of childish ethics ; Youthful misdemeanors ; Advice to youth -- 7. Clothes, fashion, and style. A fashion item ; The hand of fashion ; That white suit ; Clothes and deception ; A sumptuous robe -- 8. In case of emergency. Playing "bear" ; An apparition ; The great earthquake in San Francisco ; Escape of the tarantulas ; Burglary and the well-tempered householder ; Under a policeman's eye.
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