Gunnison Valley News | 1920-03-26 | Page 7 | Common Ancestor to Blame

COMMON ANCESTOR TO BLAME Unsightly "Apple" Is a Legacy Bequeathed Be-queathed to His Posterity by J Old Fatber Adam. , ' AVe nil "have it in" for Adam for shutting t.i our faces the gates of (ha Garden of Eden. But many ot us, though we may not know it, bear a particular resemblance to (bis common com-mon ancestor that puts another chip on the shoulder. For It is generally conceded that an "Adam's apple" Is no aid to beauty. And besides making of our I'aradise a cold, bare world, It Is Adam who inflicted upon us this additional ad-ditional burden. When our common progenitor took the fatal bite that forever for-ever doomed the rest of us to existence exist-ence by (be sweat of our brows, a pee of the fruit Is supposed to have lodged in his throat and stuck there in Ills children's children unto the nth generation. And that is why the slight protnr-beranee that some people' have at the front of the throat Is called call-ed "Adam's apple!" Speaking of ancestry, an-cestry, some of us carry about on our persons iinmistabable proof of our anrient liuengo. Cliieagn .Ten i rim I.