| Show chewing gum like the poor always with ua A secure niche has been won in the category of derelicts by chewing gum america spends upwards of a year for this delicacy the of sticks or 75 of sweetened enough TO send a ribbon around alie earth three times save in the case of tender infants not much of it Is swallowed the great bun finds its place somewhere under foot or hand by preference under in movie theaters on the decks of excursion steamers hid ing coyly beneath the edges of tables in lunch rooms I 1 once lost a sub stant lal section of a new scotch tweed overcoat by n virtue of a little left n the straw seat of a subway train another favorite temporary rest ing place la the floor of a dance ball I 1 say temporary advisedly the sticks are ever on the march they know not what it means to die stuart chase in harpers magazine |
