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Show AUTOS DEVELOP GUM HABIT. People Who Bide in Them Must Keep Jaws Moving. "What In the world has ntarted you to chewing gum?" askod the top floor girl. "Automobiles," said the girl whose Jawa had been working Industriously for ten minutes, "The chewing gum habit Ih the inevitable outcome of the motoring motor-ing habit, I havo been fortunate enough to wet plenty of frco automobile rlden this summer. When I began touring the country r hardly knew what chewing gum trsted like, hut before I had huon at it a week 1 found out, I hod to ohew to keep In the fashion. Beuldos, J developed a craving for gum. By some psychological psychologi-cal principle a high rate of speed maintained main-tained for any great length of time produces pro-duces an uncontrollable desire to keep i ho Jaws going. SIncp a person can not very well keep up thy niRstlcatlng move ment without something to chew on, au- H tomobillsts have hit upon gum ns the H most satisfactory substance. Everybody H chews it. from dare-devil drivers down to H the most timid passenger. H "Druggists and confectioners declare H that the sale rf gum has increased U) per H cone with tho craze for automoblling. It H Used to be Just that way when cycling H was the fnshlon. Scorchers all chewed H gum, and bought it ln large quantities. B With the waning of the wheel's popu- H larlty the demand for gum fell off. Auto- H mobiles have revived it. It will probably H rmnaln popular till they, too, go out of IH fashion. By that time flying machines IH may he on the market to bring it Into H Vogue again.' New York Press. H |