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Show COMMON ANCESTOR TO BLAME Unsightly "Apple" Is a Legacy Bequeathed Be-queathed to His Posterity by ; Old Father Ad?.m. ! We all "have if in" for Adam for shutting lo our faces (he gates of tho Harden of Eden. lint many of us, though wo may not know it. bear a particular resemblance to this common com-mon ancestor lhat puis another chip on the shoulder. For it Is gmerully conceded that an "Adam's apple" is no aid to beauty. And besides making of our Paradise a cold, bare world, it Is Adam who Inflicted upon us this additional ad-ditional burden. When our common progenitor took the fatal bile that forever for-ever doomed the rest of us to exist-enee exist-enee by the sweat of our brows, a piece of the fruil Is supposed to have lodged in bis throat and stuck there In his children's children unto the nth generation. And lhat is why (be slight proiurheranee lhat some peopla lane at the front of Ihe throat Is called call-ed "Adam's apple!" Speaking of ancestry, an-cestry, some of us carry about on our persons unmisiuhahle proof of our aiu-ieiit lineage. Chicago Journal. |