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Show AFRICAN CANNIBALS CRAVE EPSOM SALTS and even among cannibals starchy food predominates. "Witch doctors and sorcerers brew magic stews and make a lot of mumbo-jumbo, mumbo-jumbo, but the black men have discovered discov-ered the efficiency of the white man's drugs, so they beg to borrow or buy them whenever possible. They may continue the treatment prescribed by their own witch doctor because in no event would they want to hurt a local lo-cal practitioner's feelings; but if they can combine witches' brew and a good stiff cathartic, they feel pretty certain of complete cure." Will Spend Week's Wages for a Single Dose. New York. Mrs. William S. Sea-brook, Sea-brook, who shares the explorations of her noted husband, says that a white man can prosper by retailing epsom salts to the natives on the Ivory coast. "Epsom salts," she says in the American Amer-ican Druggist, "are white magic to the people who deal in black magic, people who will work for a week to buy a single dose of salts, and consider themselves them-selves lucky to get it. "One charming cannibal to whom my husband and I were indebted made a single request when asked how we could repay him for his many favors. He replied quickly and naively: 'Yes, send me epsom salts, and my fortune is made.' "His Idea was to go into the cut-rate cut-rate business and sell epsom salts for ten cents. "Natives of the Ivory coast suffer terribly from constipation. Here you have a primitive people struggling with nature in a dense jungle, afflicted with a condition which we have been told results from a civilized and sedentary seden-tary life. The difficulty is with their diet. They eat practically no greens |