That in Japan an American can buy a beautiful geisha for two dollars and that, upon being bought, she will promptly fall madly in love with him and will run his house for him in a scrupulously clean manner.
§6
That all sailors are gifted with an extraordinary propensity for amour, but that on their first night of shore leave they hang around the water-front saloons and are given knock-out drops.
§7
That when a comedian, just before the rise of the curtain, is handed a telegram announcing the death of his mother or only child, he goes out on the stage and gives a more comic performance than ever.
§8
That the lions in the cage which a lion-tamer enters are always sixty years old and have had all their teeth pulled.
§9
That the Siamese Twins were joined together by gutta percha moulded and painted to look like a shoulder blade.