Show WHY of superstitions by H kinq toothpicks I 1 IN N MANY of the country it Is believed that a toothpick rondo made of it a piece of a tree which has been struck by lightning Is a cure tor for toot toothache bache and a preserver pre sener of nf the teeth generally the fact of magic virtues attributed attrib to the 1 lightning struck toothpick to today Is but a of the old be belief lef that lightning sanctified what hat it touched the electrical discharges from the clouds were accounted by our ancestors as a direct emanation from the ruler and chief of the gods zeus ns 89 the tb of the greeks and under the lie nume name of jupiter or jove tie lie was the same to the antins when we consider eliat before benjamin ahnin franklins time we ive knew practically as little concerning th the e ren I 1 nature of lightning as did ajax when ben lie defied it on the trojan field it Is nut not surprising that the men of old saw in this tremendous display of force a god godlike like emanation or that a belief should exist today in the magical ma eat qualities imparted to wood which has been visited by the thunderbolt it Is however a curious curi example of how knowledge and superstition may exist side by side that an expert electrician who ubo cages controls and measures lightning a as a part of his business will nevertheless pick his teeth with a silver of lightning struck wood in order to stop his toothache Q by bic mcclure ciure syndicate |