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Show Feast of Raw Peanuts Upset the President Calvin Coolldge was browsing about the basement rooms and corridors cor-ridors of the White House, a short time after taking ollice, when lie spied a large sack of peanuts neai a door leading to the rear grounds. This discovery Interested him at once. He always had a passion for any kind of nuts, especially peanuts. This huge bag was open at the top and looked most Inviting. He gnxetl upon his find for a second or two and then helped himself liberally. He filled his two coat pockets. Later In the morning, while at his desk in the executive office, he rang for his secretary and told him he felt sick and directed that his engagements engage-ments be canceled. He went to his bedroom, suffering with pains in the stomach. His physician made him drink plentifully of castor oil, and In a few hours he was feeling more like himself. Upon inquiry the President discovered dis-covered the peanuts he had been eating eat-ing were raw. He did not know Hint the nuts to which he helped himself were for the squirrels. For years a sack of raw peanuts had been kept on hand for the policemen and gardeners gar-deners to fill their pockets before going go-ing to their duties in the grounds. It was in this way that the squirrels were fed. Boston Globe. |