People You Know

by George Ade

People You Know, by George Ade (Table of Contents) — Illustrated by John T. McCutcheon and Others
New York, R. H. Russell, 1903 — Copyright 1902, 1903 by Robert Howard Russell — 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