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Show On tlio Altar of llrnul). It Is customary, according to tho evidence evi-dence of a doctor at an Inquest nt New Delnval yesterday, for gins and young women In certain colliery districts dis-tricts In Northumberland to eat uncooked un-cooked lice, oatmeal nnd stnrch, In order to induce 11 palo completion, whleh Is held In those parts to bo 11 mark of beauty. In the caso under InVestlgntlon n young woman named .lano Mold had died ot perforation of the stomach caused by eating uncooked rice ns an aid lo beauty. Other cases arising from the practice are, It wns stated, under treatment. Loudon Mnll. |