Boiled bosoms.--Starched futility.--The President.--Egg Charley.--Wrong-horse Harry.--Pink peppermints and protocol.--The man who stayed too long.--Sons of the wild jackass.--The monkey house.--The court jester.--Sonnets and beans.--Little Nemo, the wonder-worker.--Lenin and Machiavelli.--The vestal virgins.--The press