Salt Lake Herald-Republican | 1920-05-16 | Page 12 | Gum Chewing Fad Invades England

GUM GUi CHEWING ING FAD INVADES ADES ENGLAND By Lon London on May 15 The Tho American doughboy h has s left Indelible marks of or his stay In London sad and Paris Parla Titers Thorn ThoroIs Is hardly an nn American to bo be boscon boscon scon seen on the streets of or either of or the th two capitals yet enormous quantities of or chewing gum borum are being consumed by bythe bythe the the girls the they left behind I INo No fewer than cases o of gum I were er recently l landed at Rouen In a n. fortnight Street hawkers do a a. thrivIng thriving ing lag business in n In London JAndon Gum is even moro morn popular among the tho well brought up girls than thon among amone- tho the lower classes M. M L writing In the Avenir a 1 French ma magazine saVe gave a n. graphic description of ot tho the racial facial contortions which accompany tho the mastication of ot gumIn gum In the middle of or a t sentence ho he says sas a gum victim stops to ruminate and chew the cud before making a re re- re ply ph Tho chewer turns urns his hla tongue seven se time when It Is la not seventeen