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Show GOOD THING TO LEAVE ALONE. Physicians Advise to Those Who Are Fond of Mushrooms. It may bo possible that when all the boys aro dead they will quit eating toadstools and dying In spasms therefrom. there-from. The edlblo and poisonous varieties varie-ties ot theso fungi nro too close together to-gether In general and species for tho average youngster to dlfforcntlato them. It continues, after many years, to bo tho same old story: Eat It; if It kills you It Is a toadstool; It It agrees with you It Is a mushroom. Somo years ago tho department of agriculture agricul-ture at Washington Issued an elaborate elab-orate and beautiful set' of Illustrations of mushrooms and "near" mushrooms, labeling ono sot "edlblo" and tho other "poisonous." Tho story leaked out that tho j-rlutGrs got tho labols mixed, and that tho transposition wns not discovered until the work had been sent broadcast. Tho officials did somo tall hustling In nn effort to call In tho Issue. A well-known physician said to mo tho other day: "Owing to tho vory groat difficulty In ordinary Ufa of detecting tho true from tho falso, my mushroom advice has usually been 'lot both kinds alone.' " Now York Ppaeo |