Cloister and the Hearth at Project Gutenberg

Not a day passes over the earth, but men and women of no note do great
deeds, speak great words, and suffer noble sorrows.

Opening line from Charles Reade's Cloister and the Hearth

Cobbett's Advice to Young Men at Project Gutenberg

"It is the duty, and ought to be the pleasure, of age and experience
to warn and instruct youth and to come to the aid of inexperience. When
sailors have discovered rocks or breakers, and have had the good luck to
escape with life from amidst them, they, unless they be pirates or
barbarians as well as sailors, point out the spots for the placing of
buoys and of lights, in order that others may not be exposed to the
danger which they have so narrowly escaped. What man of common humanity,
having, by good luck, missed being engulfed in a quagmire or quicksand,
will withhold from his neighbours a knowledge of the peril without which
the dangerous spots are not to be approached?"

Introduction, Advice to Young Men by William Cobbett

I vote that more advice manuals should place such emphasis on pirates and quicksand

Hardly Tetrazzini....

Calabash!

In addition to being just a cool word, a calabash is a gourd that is used to make water containers.  The outer skin is watertight and can be used to serve food or carry water - or to collect rain from a leaky roof.

Sheet Music - All Down Piccadilly

Here's the sheet music for all you sight readers.  We will be singing the first chorus reprise.

Pleurisy - Lung Infection To Avoid

Ella has a bout of pleurisy, and boy does it sound unpleasant. Let's all agree not to go down with that ailment, shall we?

Brooks - Boys Only!

Lancelot is a member of an exclusive gentlemen's club called Brooks.  This private club membership is a clear marker of class, and places him in the upper echelons of London society.  His relationship with Jean also brands him a Stage Door Johnny...