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Show Former President Taft tells this story on himself: "There is a lad of my acquaintance in New Haven who used to bite his nails. 'See here,' said his uise to him one day, 'if you keep biting bit-ing your nails like that, do you know what will happen to you?' " 'No,' said the youngster. 'What?' " 'You'll swell up like a balloon and burst.' "The boy believed his nurse. He stopped biting bit-ing his nails at once. About a month after the discontinuance of his habit he encountered me at luncheon. He surveyed me with stern disapproval. dis-approval. Then he walked over and said to me, accusingly: "'You bite your nails?'" Chicago Herald. |