03303cam a2200397 i 4500 296058136 TxAuBib 20131028120000.0 031106s2004||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 2003024224 9780520242456 (alk. paper) 0520242459 (alk. paper) TxAuBib rda Twain, Mark, 1835-1910, (Samuel Langhorne Clemens.) Mark Twain's helpful hints for good living [BOOK] : a handbook for the damned human race / Mark Twain ; edited by Lin Salamo, Victor Fischer, and Michael B. Frank of the Mark Twain Project. Berkeley : University of California Press, 2004. xiv, 207 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm. txt rdacontent n rdamedia nc rdacarrier Jumping frogs ; 2 "The Mark Twain Project is a reserach and editorial project housed within the Mark Twain Papers at the Bancroft Library, Univ. of Calif., Berkeley.". Includes bibliographical references. 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. 20131028. Twain, Mark 1835-1910 Quotations. Conduct of life Quotations, maxims, etc. Conduct of life Literary collections. Literature. Quotations. Fischer, Victor, 1942- Salamo, Lin. Frank, Michael B. Bancroft Library, Mark Twain Project. Jumping frogs ; 2.