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Show qjtofektfejjjj p 7 IMillW IIH MIHIM?!!! Ill medical specialists rats who were force fed with 20 pounds of pickles a day for thirty days developed bulging bulg-ing abdomens. Their appetites appe-tites for WHOLESOME FOODS were destroyed. In spite of all this evidence, evi-dence, pickle growers and packers continue to grow by leaps and bounds. More than 120,000 acres of fertile UJ3. soil are devoted to growing Pickles. Our per capita consumption con-sumption rate is nearly four pounds (in our own case, I'm sure it's many times that figure). So this week, try to look on the bright side of life. It's there if we look hard enough. And if your giggle isn't "giggly" enough -you'll just have to use it more after all, they say everything improves with practice. Well, I'm still . under the weather and didn't get out for an interview this week. I've bad some time for reading and came across a bit of logic by Mark Twain, about laughter. Now to me, laugher laugh-er is an important part of life. To be able to laugh at yourself, and see humor in things about you is a bless -tag. What a dull life it would be if wb only looked in the doll, gloomy side. Said Mark Twain, The "j" human race in its poverty has unquestionably one 6" really effective weapon; laughter. Power, money, V' persuasion, supplication, persecution, all can be lifted ey by a colossal humbug, push -1 ed a little, weakened a little UP" century by century, but only 025 laughter can blow it to rags and atoms at ablast.Against frS the assualt of laughter, noth 4 Ing can stand." . Laughter can come at the r slightest provocation. Keith, ' ! with his broken arm, was ! trying to help me (no easy i task) out of a deep chair J without popping my stitches. ' We got to gigglingandlaugh-i gigglingandlaugh-i lng at what a pair we were and I think I popped a 3 stitch anyway. Here's a bit of "Humbug" thought you might enjoy. S It's from a scientific study 0 by Dr. John Carew, Dept. of Horticulture, Michigan State University. "Pickles may kill you! Every pickle you eat brings you nearer to death. Amazingly, Amaz-ingly, the "thinking" man has failed to grasp the terrifying ter-rifying significance of the term "in a pickle". Leading Lead-ing horticulturists have long known that Cucumis Sativus possess an indehiscent pepo, but the pickle industry continues con-tinues to expand." For example, didyouknow that: Nearly all sick people have eaten pickles at one time or another; That 99 of all people who die from almost any disease have eaten pickles; 93.1 of juvenile delinquents delin-quents come from homes where pickles are served frequently; Of all the people born in 1840 who later ate pickles, f there has been a 100 mortality. mor-tality. V, All pickle eaters born between be-tween 1849 and 1859 now have wrinkled skin, have lost iiost of their teeth, have brittle bones and failing eye -s'ght if pickle eating has nrt already caused their dath. iven more convincing is a retort of a noted team of |