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Show oo BETEL. Drug addicts in the orient chew the' betel nut. which makes their teeth ebony-black. When the teeth decay and fall out they are replaced by art! ficlal chewerB. These false teeth are manufactured black. Otherwise, the betel nuUchewers spurn them. The instinct of self-destruction Is highly developed in man. It la a queer brain croaae, when the man who is slowly destroying himself takes pride in tho Job, as In the case of the betel nut fiend and the hard drinker. No animal except man voluntarily destroys de-stroys Itself. |