know them. Class or race faults are superficial. The human
qualities strike deep.--_Dr. Frank Crane_.

A prejudice is a conviction not shared by you.

"Do you like codfish?"

"No, I don't like codfish, and I'm glad I don't like it, because if I
liked it I'd eat it, and I hate the damn stuff."

PREPAREDNESS

GRUBBS--"Are you planning to make any good resolutions?"

STUBBS--"No, I am already pretty well stocked up in that way. You see,
I never used those I made last year."

PRESCRIPTIONS

"You must give up coffee and--"

"I never drink it, doctor."

"And stop smoking."

"I don't smoke."

"Humph! that's bad. If you haven't anything to give up, I'm afraid I
can't do much for you."

"Why do you bring a check with the cocktails?"

"That isn't a check. That's the house chemist's certificate."

The curator of the museum was classifying Egyptian curios. He observed
a perplexed expression on the face of his young assistant.

"What seems to be the matter, Jones?" he asked. "Is there anything you
don't understand?"

"Yes, sir," answered the helper. "Here is a papyrus on which the
characters are so badly traced that they are indecipherable. How shall
I classify it?"

"Let me see," said the curator, examining the piece. "Just call it a
doctor's prescription in the time of Pharaoh."

Spirit writing--the modern doctor's prescription--_Life_.

_See also_ Names, Personal.

PRETENSION

Pretension is a kind of velvet cloak
I wear to hide my real self from view,
And yet where'er I meet with other folk
I always find they wear this garment too.

Pretension is a kind of golden veil
Behind whose mesh I seek to hide my face,
And yet where'er I go I never fail
To see that others wear it too with grace.

Pretension is a thing I say I hate
In both myself and in my dearest friend,
And yet whene'er I slyly watch and wait
I find in some regard we all pretend.

--_Ernest Powell_.

Where there is much pretension, much has been borrowed: Nature never
pretends.--_Lavater_.

When half-gods go, the gods arrive.--_Emerson_.

PRICES

"Have any trouble in getting your money back?"

"Not a bit," replied the dissatisfied purchaser. "But I got the worst
of it, as usual. The price of the article had jumped so by the time I
got back to the store that they made a profit by getting it in stock
again."

Jean longed for a kitten. When