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Show AMERICANS EASY TO IDENTIFY Marks Caused by Collisions With the Deadly Rocker Put Nationality Beyond Diaputs. "cars on the ankles Identify aa American thofce found dead abroad," said a coroner's physician. "Yes, our ankle scare identify us over there as infallibly as our gold teeth. "You see. we are the only people whose ankles get scarred by banging Into the sharp points of rockers in the dark. "Four legged chairs don't hurt In the dark In this way. Hang into them a doien times a night, and they merely impart a alight bruise to the knee. "Ilut a bedroom rocker, when you go prowling In your bare feet about a coal black bedroom, is more dangerous danger-ous than a man trap. How many times, In the deal blackness of the night, have you been Impaled by the ankles or nearly Impaled by the ankles on the sharp, upstanding points of a bedroom rocker? Just look at your ankles when you undress this evening. You may not be aware of It, but I'll guarantee you'll And on each ankle five or six scars, the marks of terrible, ter-rible, midnight collisions with the deadly rocker. "And that's how It Is that they Identify Iden-tify Americans abroad by the rocking chair scars with criss cross the bony, still ankles of the male and the round and supple ankles of the femalo American." |