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While still Carl of Denmark, he became known as "the sailor prince." From his 13th year he was constantly aboard some Danish warship? used to go off by himself and chew at a great slice of coarse rye bread to keep down his seasickness...
Clay-Eating. Mistresses who, with mystification, have watched their colored maids, newly migrated from the South, gather clay from the back yard and then chew it, learned last week from inveterate conners of the Journal of the American Medical Association that pure clay, kaolin, kept in motion with fluids, is beneficial in Asiatic cholera, bacillary dysentery, chronic ulcerative colitis and acute enteritis. In some cases the clay carries away intestinal bacteria, in others mixes with their toxic products. The Journal warns inexact thinkers that many other supposedly beneficial effects of clay-eating are spurious...
...then on the number of sucklings may be reduced?in a month to twice a day. When the second pair of teeth arrive, the mother can wean the child. When the third group (the later incisors and grinders) appeal-about the end of the first year, the baby can chew solid food...
...luncheon-the pages and employes of the Senate. He said to the pages: "Don't be 'hip flask' boys, and-I suppose I shouldn't say it, perhaps the chaplain should say this-don't smoke, don't swear and don't chew. Be clean; be yourself; stand against the crowd and you will amount to something." Charles G. Dawes received a note...
There is no doubt about it: the acquirement of learning is entirely Allen to the popular conception of a college education. Tenors who do not chew may go elsewhere and do as they please so long as they refrain from undermining the he-man's college. Let the academic shades be sacred to the "bull bass" and the quiet enjoyment of Climax plug...