Are You a Bromide?

NOTE

Reading edition

This essay is reprinted, with revisions and enlargement additions, from “The Sulphitic Theory” published in “The Smart Set” for April, 1906, by consent of the editors.

TO GERTRUDE McCALL CHATELAINE OF MAC MANOR

Illustration from Are You a Bromide? The Sulphitic Theory Expounded and Exemplified According to the Most Recent Researches into the Psychology of Boredom, Including Many Well-Known Bromidioms Now in Use

AND DISCOVERER OF THE SULPHITIC THEORY