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Show A Corner In fuinpklns. "Just look at that, will you?" said the keeper of ono of tho largo produeo sta-nds in Center market to a reporter as a party of a dozen boys trooped off each with a big pumpkin under his arm. "That is the way it has been for ten days past. Bet I have sold a carload to boys. They want big ones, too. The common, ordinary ordi-nary size doesn't seem to meet their notion." no-tion." "What do they do with them?" "Count the seeds. There is a porfect craze over it. Nearly every lady who cornea along hero doing her day's marketing mar-keting says, 'Send me up a pumpkin, a largo one; my littlo boy wants to count the seeds.' "I thought at first it was jack-o'-lanterns they wanted them for, such as we used to make when I was a boy, but it seems that there is a guessing contest for a pony going on. The child guessing guess-ing the nearest to the correct number of seeds in a giant pumpkin exhibited ia one of their windows gets the pony, and these boys are hunting a few facts on the seed question. 'Tisn't a bad idea, but it keeps us produce men hustling for big pumpkins." Washington Post, j |