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LIFE'S MINOR COLLISIONS
BY
FRANCES AND GERTRUDE WARNER
AUTHORS (RESPECTIVELY) OF “ENDICOTT AND I”AND “HOUSE OF DELIGHT”
BOSTON AND NEW YORK
HOUGHTON MIFFLIN COMPANY
The Riverside Press Cambridge
1921
COPYRIGHT, 1921, BY HOUGHTON MIFFLIN COMPANY
ALL RIGHTS RESERVED
TO OUR GRANDMOTHER
MARCIA JANE CHANDLER CARPENTER
WHO NEVER COLLIDES
WHY MINOR?
Collisions are measured by what theywill smash. Potentially, all collisionsare major. A slight blow will explodea bomb. But since most of us do notcommonly carry dynamite through thebusy sections of this life, we can takea good many brisk knocks and stillsurvive.
The collisions, though dealt with inseparate chapters by two of us, are seldombetween two people alone. Theyare collisions, mostly minor, betweenthe individual and the group, the individualand circumstances, the individualand the horse he rides on.
All the chapters are for those kindredspirits who try to be easy to livewith—and find it difficult.
F. L. W.
G. C. W.
CONTENTS
| Love's Minor Frictions | 1 |
| Boston Streets | 27 |
| To Horse | 37 |
| Wheels and how they go round | 55 |
| The Will to boss | 73 |
| More to it than you'd think | 97 |
| Trio Impetuoso | 111 |
| The Return of A, B, C | 134 |
| Understanding the Healthy | 146 |
| Carving at Table | 162 |
| The Feeling of Irritation | 175 |
NOTE
Acknowledgment of permission to reprint certainof these papers is made to the editors of The AtlanticMonthly, Education, The Ladies' HomeJournal, The Outlook, Scribner's Magazine, andThe Unpartizan Review.
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