True Facts #1

1. The vast majority of fish wives are not in fact fish.
2. Laziness is the number one cause of death in America.
3. Hundreds of ships are sunk each year due to talkative gossip-mongerers.
4. My dear friend Mrs. Violetta Pinkhurst occasionally suffers from violent dyspepsia.
5. Also, this same Mrs. Pinkhurst often boasts of the irresistible effect of her bodily physique on young men. In fact, I have had occasion to overhear at least three of the gentlemen in question discuss said physique in no flattering tones, and apparently the lady's charms are quite resistible indeed.