Show chewing gum like the poor always with Us A secure niche lias has been won in the category of derelicts by chewing gurn gum america spends upwards of 60 a year for this delicacy de the equivalent of 1 sticks or miles of sweetened enough to send a ribbon around the earth three times save in the case of tender infants not ranch much of it Is swallowed the great bulk balk finds its place somewhere under foot or hand band by preference under chairs in movie th theaters enters on the decks of excursion steamers hiding biding coyly beneath the edges of tables in lunch rooms I 1 once lost a substantial stant lal section of a new scotch tweed overcoat by a virtue of a little remembrance left on the straw seat of a subway train another favorite temporary resting place Is the floor of a dance hall I 1 say temporary advisedly the sticks are ever on the march they know not what I 1 it t means to die stuart chase in harpers magazine Magaz lne |