Growing Up In The English Countryside Seemed

I Have Nothing Against Undertakers Personally. It's Just That I Wouldn't Want One To Bury My Sister.

Knowing Few Children Of My Age With Whom To Compare Notes, I Envied The Children Of Literature To Whom Interesting Things Were Always Happening.

Things On The Whole Are Faster In America; People Don't Stand For Election, They Run For Office. If A Person Says He's Sick, It Doesn't Mean Regurgitating, It Means Ill. Mad Means Angry, Not Insane. Don't Ask For The Left-luggage; It's Called A Checkroom.

A Thirteen-year-old Is A Kaleidoscope Of Different Personalities, If Not In Most Ways A Mere Figment Of Her Own Imagination. At That Age, What And Who You Are Depends Largely On What Book You Happen To Be Reading At The Moment.

Funeralese Has Had Its Ups And Downs. The Word 'morticians,' First Used In Embalmers Monthly For February, 1895, Was Barred By The Chicago Tribune In 1932, 'not For Lack Of Sympathy With The Ambition Of Undertakers To Be Well Regarded, But Because Of It. If They Haven't The Sense To Save Themselves From Their Own Lexicographers, We Shall Not Be Guilty Of Abetting Them In Their Folly.