Show AFRICAN NATIVES LIKE EPSOM SALTS will spend weeks wages for a single dose new york mrs william willlam S sea brook who shares the ons of her noted husband says that a wl ite man can prosper by retailing epsom salts to the natives on the ivory coast EI el som salts she says in the amer lean dru drugg g st are white mag c to the people ni I 1 0 deal in black magic people wl 0 will n u ork orl for a week to buy a s i gle dose of salts and consider them sel es lucky to get it one charming canabal cann bal to whom my husband and I 1 were indebted made a single request when asked how we could repay him for his many favors he ile replied quickly and naively yes send me epsom salts and my fortune is made H 11 s idea was to go into the cut rate bus ness and sell epsom salts for ten cents natives of the ivory coast suffer terribly from constipation here you have hane a primitive people struggling with nature in a dense jungle afflicted with a cond tion which we have been told results from a civilized and seden tary life the difficulty Is with their det d et they eat practically no greens and even among cannibals starchy food predominates witch doctors and sorcerers brew mag c stews and make a lot of mumbo jumbo but the black men have dincov ered the efficiency of the white mans man s drugs so they beg to borrow or buy them whenever possible they may continue the treatment bed by the r own witch doctor because in no jao event would they want to hurt a lo 10 cal practitioner practitioners s feelings but if tl ti ey cy can combine witches brew and a good stiff cathartic they feel pretty certain of complete cure |