HEY RUB-A-DUB-DUB

A BOOK OF THE MYSTERY AND
WONDER AND TERROR
OF LIFE
By T H E O D O R E D R E I S E R
AUTHOR OF “SISTER CARRIE,” “THE HAND OF THE POTTER,”
“FREE AND OTHER STORIES,” “JENNIE
GERHARDT,” ETC.

B O N I A N D L I V E R I G H T
N E W Y O R K 1920
Copyright, 1920,
By BONI & LIVERIGHT, Inc.
Printed in the United States of America

CONTENTS

CHAPTER PAGE
I.[Hey Rub-A-Dub-Dub][1]
II.[Change][19]
III.[Some Aspects of Our National Character][24]
IV.[The Dream][60]
V.[The American Financier][74]
VI.[The Toil of the Laborer][92]
VII.[Personality][107]
VIII.[A Counsel to Perfection][115]
IX.[Neurotic America and the Sex Impulse][126]
X.[Secrecy—Its Value][142]
XI.[Ideals, Morals, and the Daily Newspaper][152]
XII.[Equation Inevitable][157]
XIII.[Phantasmagoria][182]
XIV.[Ashtoreth][201]
XV.[The Reformer][206]
XVI.[Marriage and Divorce][212]
XVII.[More Democracy or Less? An Inquiry][225]
XVIII.[The Essential Tragedy of Life][238]
XIX.[Life, Art and America][252]
XX.[The Court of Progress][277]