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# Spirella Manual (1913)/Section 11
## SECTION 11.SECTION 11.
### Territory—and How to Work It.

108. THE TERRITORY WE ASSIGN YOU is valuable to you and to us. The profits that you get from it must depend upon your preparation for the work and how thoroughly you work. In an average territory there are forty corset wearers to every hundred of population, and your purpose is to secure the largest possible number of corset wearers. To do this, your territory must be worked thoroughly.
The first step, as previously stated, is to secure a few influential names as customers and then work systematically, carefully, thoroughly. If working country territory, work every highway, every house upon it. If in towns, work street by street or block by block. ​Do not skip around, working here one day and there another. By so doing, you lose the influence of orders already secured, and you also make extra work in delivery. Do not overlook the value of a good list of names, a good list of orders in this work. People are influenced by what others do, and if your order book shows that you have a goodly number of cus­tomers the list will help in securing others.
Always carry a note book with you, making note of prospective customers who are absent, and call again. If a customer cannot order to-day, make a future appointment and after having interviewed the lady do not hesitate to ask her to refer you to friends of hers. All of these points help materially in future work.
WORK STEADILY EVERY DAY. DO NOT LET ANYTHING INTERFERE. WORK AS YOU WOULD HAVE TO WERE YOU WORKING FOR SOME ONE ELSE. Some work too rapidly; others perhaps not rapidly enough. But the tendency is, especially with be­ginners, to run over too much territory. GIVE EVERYBODY AN OPPORTUNITY TO SEE WHAT YOU HAVE.
109. You are in the corset business and not a politician or reformer. You will meet many people who will want to talk with you and detain you. Do not let them do so, and keep the discussion of politics and re­ligion separate from your work.
You will find that a great many people will tell you that they would like to help you out. Always thank them very kindly for their interest, but gently give them to understand that you are not in need of charity. In doing this you will put them in a position where you can deal with them and get their orders much more readily than you could were you to appeal to their sympathies.
# Songs and Lyrics (Lehrer)/The Hunting Song

THE HUNTING SONG
words and music by Tom Lehrer
I always will remember, 'Twas a year ago November, I went out to hunt some deer On a morning bright and clear. I went and shot the maximum the game laws would allow. Two game wardens, seven hunters, and a cow.
I was in no mood to trifle, I took down my trusty rifle And went out to stalk my prey. What a haul I made that day. I tied them to my fender, and I drove them home somehow, Two game wardens, seven hunters, and a cow.
The law was very firm, it Took away my permit, The worst punishment I ever endured. It turned out there was a reason, Cows were out of season, And one of the hunters wasn't insured.
People ask me how I do it, And I say, "There's nothin' to it, You just stand there lookin' cute, And when something moves, you shoot!" And there's ten stuffed heads in my trophy room right now, Two game wardens, Seven hunters, And a pure-bred Guernsey cow.
# Songs and Lyrics (Lehrer)/The Professor's Song

A recording of this song is available here.
The Professor's Song
from The Physical Revue
words by Tom Lehrer
music by Arthur Sullivan "If You Give Me Your Attention" from Princess Ida
If you give me your attention, I will tell you what I am I'm a genius and a physicist (and something of a ham) I have tried for numerous degrees, in fact, I've one of each Of course that makes me eminently qualified to teach I understand the subject matter thoroughly, it's true And I can 't see why it isn't all as obvious to you My lectures all are masterpieces, excellently planned Yet everybody tells me that I'm hard to understand And I can't think why!
My diagrams are models of true art, you must agree And my handwriting is famous for its legibility When I write "gravitation" (scrawls on blackboard), say, or any other word For anyone to say he cannot read it is absurd My demonstrations all get more amazing every year Though, frankly, what they go to prove is sometimes less than clear And all my explanations are quite lucid, I am sure Yet everybody tells me that my lectures are obscure And I can't think why!
Consider, for example, oscillation of a spring The force that acts upon it is a very simple thing It's kx$^3$ --- or kx$^2$ --- no, just kx, I'll bet The sign in front is plus - or is it minus?, I forget Well, anyway, there is a force, of that there is no doubt All these problems are quite trivial if you only think them out Yet people tell me, "I have memorized the whole term through Everything you've told us, but the problems I can't do." And I can't think why!
The Professor's Song (math version)
words by Tom Lehrer
music by Arthur Sullivan "If You Give Me Your Attention" from Princess Ida
If you give me your attention, I will tell you what I am I'm a brilliant math'matician (also something of a ham) I have tried for numerous degrees, in fact, I've one of each Of course that makes me eminently qualified to teach I understand the subject matter thoroughly, it's true And I can't see why it isn't all as obvious to you Each lecture is a masterpiece, meticulously planned Yet everybody tells me that I'm hard to understand And I can't think why!
My diagrams are models of true art, you must agree And my handwriting is famous for its legibility Take a word like "minimum" (to choose a random word) For anyone to say he cannot read that is absurd The anecdotes I tell get more amusing every year Though, frankly, what they go to prove is sometimes less than clear And all my explanations are quite lucid, I am sure Yet everybody tells me that my lectures are obscure And I can't think why!
Take differentiation, it's as simple as can be, Like finding the derivative of tangent x --- let's see --- It's tangent squared --- No, secant squared --- No, just secant, I bet. The sign in front is plus --- or is it minus? I forget --- Well, it does have a derivative, of that there is no doubt. All these formulas are trivial if you only think them out Yet students tell me, "I have memorized the whole year through Ev'rythng you've told us, but the problems I can't do." And I can't think why!
# Songs and Lyrics (Lehrer)/The Love Song of the Physical Anthropologist

The Love Song of the Physical Anthropologist
words & music by Tom Lehrer
Let me tell you of The mammal that I love, She's lovely, she's charming, she's divine. That ectomorphic, hypsicranial, rufipilous, leptorrhinian Metriocephalic gal of mine.
Oh, the touch is grand Of her pentadactyl hand, She's my mesoprosopic valentine. That eurypellic, orthorachic, brachydontic, stenomeric, Dolichocnemic leptosome of mine.
Though you might wish this chordate Instead of mine were your date, You haven't got a chance, its plain to see, For nothing is more alien To this marvelous mammalian Than affection shown to anyone but me.
Oh, her eyes are blue (And they're oxybleptic too), She's endothermic, and that suits me fine. That eurypellic, orthorachic, brachydontic, stenomeric, Bathycolpian, leiodermatous, callipygian, platyhieric, Ectomorphic, rufipilous, leptorrhinian Metriocephalic little gal of mine.
[Note: This song was prompted by the observation that all love songs that actually describe any physical aspect of the beloved limit their compliments to such things as hair, eyes, lips, hands, etc. Physical anthropologists, on the other hand, have a whole arsenal of descriptive adjectives at their disposal.]
# Songs and Lyrics (Lehrer)/The Masochism Tango

THE MASOCHISM TANGO
words and music by Tom Lehrer
# Songs and Lyrics (Lehrer)/The Ice Cream Tango

THE ICE CREAM TANGO
(written for the 1973 production at UCSC of the musical Park) words and music by Tom Lehrer
| Elizabeth: [spoken] | Do you know what I would really like right now? |
| [sung] | I would like ---- some ice cream. |
| Sara & Jamie: | Me too! |
| Elizabeth: | I would like ---- a cone. |
| Sara & Jamie: | Me too! |
| Austin: | Me too! |
| Elizabeth: | It would really hit the spot, And make me feel a lot Like a queen upon a throne. |
| Jamie: [spoken] | What flavor does your majesty crave? |
| Elizabeth: | I would like ---- vanilla. |
| Jamie: | Me too! |
| Austin: | Not me. Iʼll take chocʼlate. |
| Sara: | I want peach. |
| Jamie: [spoken] | Peach?? |
| Sara: [spoken] | All right, chocʼlate. |
| Elizabeth: | But wouldnʼt it be pleasant, Some day when no oneʼs present, To order one of each. |
| Sara: [spoken] | Including peach! [Sara and Jamie stick tongues out at each other.] |
| Austin: | Would you rather have a dish? |
| Elizabeth: [spoken] | A bit too fancyish! |
| Austin: | Would you like it on a plate? |
| Elizabeth: [spoken] | Itʼs good -- but not great. |
| Austin: | Would you like it on a stick? |
| Sara & Jamie: [spoken] | Ick! |
| Austin: | Well, how about a cup? [others shake their heads] Okay, four cones, coming up! Iʼll go and get the ice cream. |
| Jamie: | Me too! You canʼt carry them alone. |
| Elizabeth & Sara: | Heʼs right. |
| Austin: | I know. |
| Jamie: | Two chocʼlates, two vanillas, |
| Elizabeth & Sara: | Two chocʼlates, two vanillas. |
| Austin: | For nothing the world has ever known........ |
| Jamie: | Nothing the world has ever known....... |
| Elizabeth & Sara: | Nothing the world has ever known |
| All [in harmony]: | Can compare with an ice cream |
| Elizabeth: | Cone! |
| Austin & Jamie | I want an ice cream cone! |
| Elizabeth & Sara: [spoken] | Me too! |
​A possible scene to set up “The Ice Cream Tango”
(Possibly some introductory dialogue, indicating that the four people are friends, that it is summer, etc.)
(Bell rings offstage)
A: What's that?
B: Could it be an ice cream truck?
C: I didn't think they existed any more.
D: Remember when we were kids how we used to look forward to the Good Humor Man?
(All laugh) (trill in the music)
Soprano: (spoken) As a matter of fact, do you know what I would really like right now?
(sings) I would like some ice cream.......
Possible scene after the song
(During "two chocolates, two vanillas", A looks out the window.)
A: Hey, he's gone!
(All register disappointment.)
B: He must have left while we were standing around here singing.
All resume singing with "Nothing the world has ever known", etc.
# Songs and Lyrics (Lehrer)/The Mumble Song

THE MUMBLE SONG
(as performed on The Electric Company)
words & music by Tom Lehrer
Lead vocal: Skip Hinnant Scene: Skip unsuccessfully trying to tell his girlfriend (Judy Graubart), at various stages in their lives, how he feels about her. They get older in successive verses.
| [Skip] | My hands begin to fumble. My stomach starts to rumble. But what really makes me grumble Is my cookies start to crumble. All I can do is mumble, "I... luh... yoo..." My feet begin to stumble. I'm just about to tumble. My thoughts are all a-jumble, And my bee forgets to bumble. All I can do is mumble, "Luv yoommm..." You make me feel so, mmm, hummmble, That I stumble, tumble, jumble, bumble, Fumble, rumble, grumble, crumble, [Trying to speak, but still incoherent] "Ah lub yoom.." |
| [Judy] | What? |
| [Skip] | I said, "Ah luv... yoommm... |
| [Judy] | What? |
| [Skip] | Pay attention. I said, "I luuuvvv... yoooo." |
| [Judy] | Well, why didn't you say so in the first place?" |
# Songs and Lyrics (Lehrer)/The Night I Appeared as Macbeth

THE NIGHT I APPEARED AS MACBETH
lyrics and music by William Hargreaves (1922) revised lyrics (in italics) by Tom Lehrer (1982)
For most of my life, I confess it, I’ve had no desire for the stage, But one fateful night I was asked to recite, And Gadzooks, I was quickly the rage. Soon I knew that Macbeth was the one role That would certainly make my career, And my friends said, “Of course you must do it, So long as you don’t do it here.” So I went, hired a hall, And gave a performance that shattered them all.
I acted so tragic The house rose like magic, The audience yelled, “You’re sublime!” They made me a present Of Mornington Crescent. They threw it one brick at a time. The crowd filled the air with their chatter and clatter And quite an assortment of vegetable matter. They jeered, And they sneered, Though they cheered at the scene of my death. I got no hosannas, Just eggs and bananas, The night I appeared as Macbeth.
The play, though ascribed to Bill Shakespeare, To me lacked both polish and tone, So I threw in some bits From some popular hits And a few comic lines of my own. Unfortunately, the director Decided the play was too long, So he forced me to cut out my tap-dance And half of my second-act song. All that work, gone to waste, Ah, but what can you do with a man with no taste?
I acted so tragic, The house rose like magic, They wished David Garrick could see. But he’s in the Abbey Then someone quite shabby Suggested that’s where I should be. They hooted like owls and they whistled like crickets, Especially those who had paid for their tickets. The witches Were in stitches, And the cast was soon quite out of breath. I cried, “Lay on, MacDuff!” They cried, “Lay off, enough!” The night I appeared as Macbeth.
# Songs and Lyrics (Lehrer)/The Old Dope Peddler

THE OLD DOPE PEDDLER
words and music by Tom Lehrer
When the shades of night are falling, Comes a fellow everyone knows. It's the old dope peddler, Spreading joy wherever he goes.
Every evening you will find him, Around our neighborhood. It's the old dope peddler, Doing well by doing good.
He gives the kids free samples, Because he knows full well That today's young innocent faces Will be tomorrow's clientele.
Here's a cure for all your troubles, Here's an end to all distress. It's the old dope peddler With his powdered happiness.
# Songs and Lyrics (Lehrer)/The Irish Ballad

THE IRISH BALLAD
words and music by Tom Lehrer
About a maid I'll sing a song, Sing rickety-tickety-tin, About a maid I'll sing a song Who didn't have her family long. Not only did she do them wrong, She did ev'ryone of them in, Them in, She did ev'ryone of them in.
One morning in a fit of pique, Sing rickety-tickety-tin, One morning in a fit of pique, She drowned her father in the creek. The water tasted bad for a week, And we had to make do with gin, With gin, We had to make do with gin.
Her mother she could never stand, Sing rickety-tickety-tin, Her mother she cold never stand, And so a cyanide soup she planned. The mother died with a spoon in her hand, And her face in a hideous grin, A grin, Her face in a hideous grin.
She set her sister's hair on fire, Sing rickety-tickety-tin, She set her sister's hair on fire, And as the smoke and flame rose higher, Danced around the funeral pyre, Playin' a violin, -olin, Playin' a violin.
She weighted her brother down with stones, Sing rickety-tickety-tin, She weighted her brother down with stones, And sent him off to Davy Jones. All they ever found were some bones, And occasional pieces of skin Of skin, Occasional pieces of skin.
One day when she had nothing to do, Sing rickety-tickety-tin, One day when she had nothing to do, She cut her baby brother in two And served him up as an Irish stew, And invited the neighbors in, -bors in, Invited the neighbors in.
And when at last the police came by, Sing rickety-tickety-tin, And when at last the police came by, Her little pranks she did not deny. To do so she would have had to lie, And lying, she knew, was a sin, A sin, Lying, she knew, was a sin.
My tragic tale, I won't prolong, Sing rickety-tickety-tin, My tragic tale I won't prolong, And if you do not enjoy my song, You've yourselves to blame if it's too long, You should never have let me begin, Begin, You should never have let me begin.
# Songs and Lyrics (Lehrer)/The Menu Song

THE MENU SONG
performed on The Electric Company by Morgan Freeman (Customer) and Rita Moreno (Waitress)
words and music by Tom Lehrer
Scene: A weird luncheonette. Cast: C = Customer, W = Waitress or Waiter Menu card lists: soup, sandwich, salad, dessert. [The song was preceded by some dialogue.]
| C: | You got soup? |
| W: | We got soup. |
| C: | What kind of soup? |
| W: | All kinds of soup. We got beet soup (That's a sweet soup), Then there's meat soup, Parakeet soup, Shredded wheat soup, And concrete soup, And the special today: Dirty feet soup! |
| C: | Dirty fee--- Hey, forget the soup! What else is on the menu? Sandwich, eh? You got sandwiches? |
| W: | We got sandwiches. |
| C: | What kind of sandwiches? |
| W: | All kinds of sandwiches. We got a ham sandwich, Or a jam sandwich, Leg of lamb sandwich, Or a clam sandwich, Alabam' sandwich (That's a yam sandwich), Or how about a telegram sandwich? |
| C: | That I gotta see. Bring me a telegram sandwich. |
| W: | Sorry, I can't bring it to you . You'll have to eat it over the phone. |
| C: | Okay, forget the sandwich. What's next on the menu? Salad? You got salad? |
| W: | We got salad. |
| C: | What kind of salad? |
| W: | All kinds of salad. We got green salad, Sardine salad, Tangerine salad, Magazine salad, Jelly bean salad, Blue jean salad, And the special today: gasoline salad. ​ |
| C: | Gasoline salad? You gotta be kidding. |
| W: | No, it's delicious. And every 6000 miles we change the oil in the dressing. |
| C: | NEVER MIND! I'll just have dessert. Surely, you must have some simple dessert. You got ice cream? |
| W: | We got ice cream. |
| C: | What kind of ice cream? |
| W: | All kinds of ice cream. We got plum and rum and bubblegum, We got prune, balloon, and macaroon, We got grape and ape and scotch tape, We got lime and grime and choc'late slime, Sasparilla, Manzanilla, Caterpilla', And of course plain old-fashioned gorilla. What would you like? |
| C: | [leaving] Never mind. I'll just go over to the laundromat and have a bowl of soap flakes. |
The video of this song was included in the show Rita Moreno: Life Without Makeup, presented at the Berkeley Repertory Theater in 1911.
# Sri Lanka reiterates continued commitment to UN peacekeeping

29 September, 2015
Mr. President, Excellencies, Ladies & Gentlemen,
I thank you Mr. President, and also the Leaders of the countries that are co-hosting this Summit for convening this important meeting at a critical time in the evolution of UN peace keeping operations.
For over five decades, Sri Lanka has been making modest contributions to UN peacekeeping efforts.
We consider Sri Lanka’s cooperation with the UN Department of Peacekeeping Operations as an extension of the Government’s policy of positive engagement with the UN following the Presidential Election in January this year.
Current contributions by Sri Lanka to UN Peacekeeping stand at 529 including troops, Military Observers and Civilian Police.
On this occasion, I affirm Sri Lanka’s commitment to increase its contribution to UN peacekeeping.
We are committed to ensuring the best possible training and assessment of peacekeepers in Sri Lanka to uphold the highest standards of peacekeeping.
UN peacekeeping operations have come a long way from its modest beginnings. Today they have evolved into complex operations. This is an occasion to focus our attention on some of the challenges facing current UN peacekeeping operations.
The report of the High Level Panel on Peace Operations identifies Protection of civilians as a core obligation of the UN. The report observed that UN personnel must use every tool available to them to protect civilians under imminent threat. Sri Lanka recently accepted the Kigali Principles on the Protection of Civilians in peacekeeping. We hope that more countries will join this initiative.
We also hope that this meeting will focus on the importance of providing more resources to Peacekeeping Missions to carry out their mandates.
Mr. President,
Sri Lanka is pleased to reiterate our continued commitment to UN peacekeeping.
We are honoured to pledge significant contributions from the Sri Lanka Army, Air Force and Police.
In response to current gaps in UN peacekeeping Missions we are ready to pledge Two Combat Transport Companies and two Field Engineering platoons.
For commitments to enable more rapid deployment, we pledge one infantry battalion, two Special Force Companies, and one Combat Engineering Company.
For regular deployment, we are ready to pledge three Infantry Battalions, one Explosive Ordinance Disposal Company and one Force Protection Company.
In addition, we are ready to contribute two Formed Police Units.
The world today is a safer place because of the brace UN peacekeepers. On this occasion, let us remember and pay tribute to the hundreds of peacekeepers and staff who have sacrificed their lives in the line of duty over the years. Let us also recognize and commend their achievements.
# State Documents on Federal Relations/149

149. New York Denounces the Re-opening of the Slave Trade.
April 18, 1859.
The growing demand for slave labor in the cotton states led to a marked increase in the number of foreign slaves that were brought into the country contrary to law. Beginning about 1854 there was initiated a considerable movement in favor of legally re-opening the foreign slave trade. Governor Adams of South Carolina recommended it in his message of November, 1856 (Cluskey, 524), and in the several Southern Commercial Conventions held between 1855 and 1859 there was a strong element in its favor, which finally at the Vicksburg Convention in May, 1859, secured the adoption of a resolution by a vote of 40 to 19, declaring "that all laws, state or federal, prohibiting the African slave-trade, ought to be repealed." (De Bow's Review, xxvii, 99.) Leading southerners in Congress favored the movement during the same period.
The following resolves of the New York Legislature were called out in opposition to this movement. The Legislature of New Hampshire, June 23, 1859, also denounced the proposition, and again, July 4, 1860, declared: "That the virtual re-opening of the slave trade in violation of the law, is a species of nullification more dangerous to the Union and more degrading to the country ​than that nullification which formerly threatened to accomplish disunion by force." Laws of New Hamp., 1859, 2140; Ibid., 1860, 2298. References : For proceedings of the commercial conventions and southern opinion see De Bow's Review, XXII, 91, 102, 216-224; XXIII, 309-319; XXIV, 473-491, 579-606; XXV, 121, 122, 166-185, 289, 308, 491-506; XXVI, 51-66; XXVII, 94-235; Cluskey, 585-595. General accounts, DuBois, Suppression of the Slave Trade, ch. xi; Rhodes, II, 241, 367-372, 481, 482; Von Hoist, V, 484-490; VI, 313-324; VII, 262-266; Wilson, II, ch. xlviii.; Collins, Domestic Slave Trade, 54-60.
Resolved, That this Legislature, and the citizens of this State, look with surprise, mortification and detestation upon the virtual reopening, within the Federal Union, of the slave trade ; that against this invasion of our laws, our feelings, and the dictates of Christianity, we solemnly protest here, as we will protest elsewhere, and especially at the ballot-box ; that we call upon the citizens of this Union, to make common cause, in the name of religion, humanity, and as friends of principles underlying our system of government, to unite in bringing to immediate arrest and punishment, all persons engaged in the unlawful and wicked slave trade, and hereby instruct our senators and representatives in Congress to exert all lawful powers for the immediate suppression of the infamous traffic.
[Resolution of transmission.]
[Laws of New York, 1850, 1210.]