So much comment has been made upon the terminology of this theory that it should be stated frankly, at the start, that the words Sulphite and Bromide, and their derivatives, sulphitic and bromidic, are themselves so sulphitic that they are not susceptible of explanation.

So much has a mere name already done for us that we may say, boldly, and this is our First Theorem: that all Bromides are bromidic in every manifestation of their being.

The chief characteristic, then, seems to be a certain reflex psychological action of the bromidic brain.

This is evidenced by the accepted bromidic belief that each of the ordinary acts of life is, and necessarily must be, accompanied by its own especial remark or opinion.

It must be borne distinctly in mind that it is not merely because this remark is trite that it is bromidic; it is because that, with the Bromide, the remark is inevitable.

The pastime, recently come into vogue, of collecting Bromidioms, is a pursuit by itself, worthy enough of practice if one appreciates the subtleties of the game and does not merely collate hackneyed phrases, irrespective of their true bromidic quality.

They do not speak in awe-struck voices of supernatural apparitions, for of all fiction the ghost story is most apt to be bromidic, nor do they expect others to be impressed by their strange dreams any more than with their pathological symptoms.

In costume, perhaps, men still are more bromidic than women.

Sulphites come together like drops of mercury, in this bromidic world.

Becky Sharp was sulphitic; Amelia Sedley bromidic.

Dr. Johnson was, himself, a Sulphite of the Sulphites, but how intensely bromidic were his writings!

He may be the wildest-eyed of Anarchists and yet bromidic, if he has accepted another's reasons and swallowed the propaganda whole.

One may be so extremely bromidic that one becomes, at a leap, sulphitic, and vice versa.

Each expresses the crystallized thought of her particular bromidic group.

This tale, affecting to be a serious encomium upon a middle class British merchant, shows plainly that all satire is, in its essence, a sulphitic juggling with bromidic topics.

We accept their mania and cease to regard it; it, in a word, becomes bromidic.

From its beginning till 1815, Sulphitism was upon the increase, while from that year till 1870 there was a sickening drop to the veriest depths of bromidic thought.

So there are bromidic vegetables like cabbage, and sulphitic ones like garlic.

"The Something of Somebody" is, at present, the commonest bromidic form.

I know of one, with a million circulation, which accepted a story with the sulphitic title, "Thin Ice," and changed it to the bromidic words, "Because Other Girls were Free."

Literature itself is either bromidic or sulphitic.

The dime novel and melodrama, with hackneyed situations, once provocative, are so easily nitro-bromidic that they become sulphitic in burlesque and parody.

The mirrored bromidic mind gives back only what it has taken.

"Until about an hour ago I wanted to marryoh for the most bromidic of reasons.

I'll even be quite frank and confess I had thought of you in that bromidic version of it.