People You Know

People You Know, by George Ade (Table of Contents) &mdash; Illustrated by John T. McCutcheon and Others

New York, R. H. Russell, 1903 &mdash; Copyright 1902, 1903 by Robert Howard Russell &mdash; First Impression, April 1903

Contents, Part 1

 * Preface
 * The Periodical Souse, the Never-Again Feeling and the Ride On the Sprinkling Cart
 * The Kind of Music That Is Too Good for Household Use
 * The One or Two Points of Difference Between Learning and Learning How
 * The Night-Watch and the Would-Be Something Awful
 * The Attenuated Attorney Who Rang in the Associate Counsel

Contents, Part 2

 * What Father Bumped Into at the Culture Factory
 * The Search for the Right House and How Mrs. Jump Had Her Annual Attack
 * The Batch of Letters, or One Day With a Busy Man
 * The Sickly Dream and How It Was Doctored Up

Contents, Part 3

 * The Two Old Pals and the Call for Help
 * The Regular Kind of a Place and the Usual Way It Turned Out
 * The Man Who Had a True Friend to Steer Him Along
 * The Young Napoleon Who Went Back to the Store On Monday Morning
 * The High Art That Was a Little Too High for the Vulgarian Who Paid the Bills

Contents, Part 4(texts from the gutenberg.org)

 * The Patient Toiler Who Got It in the Usual Place
 * The Summer Vacation That Was Too Good to Last
 * How an Humble Beginner Moved from one Pinnacle to Another and Played the Entire Circuit
 * The Maneuvers of Joel and the Disappointed Orphan Asylum
 * Two Young People, Two Photographers and the Corresponding School of Wooing
 * The Married Couple That Went to Housekeeping and Began to Find Out Things
 * The Samaritan Who Got Paralysis of the Helping Hand
 * The Effort to Convert the Work Horse Into a High-Stepper
 * The Self-Made Hezekiah and His Message of Hope to This Year's Crop of Graduates
 * The Girl Who Took Notes and Got Wise and Then Fell Down
 * What They Had Laid Out for Their Vacation
 * The Experimental Couple and the Three Off-Shoots