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Show DANGER IN LICKING STAMPS Practice Has Been Known to Cause Acute Inflammation of the Tongue. Do the people who jeer at the cau tious ones who refuse to lick a postage post-age stamp as "cranks" know that there is a defined disease known as "the postage stamp tongue?" This is an acute inflammation of the tongue, directly traced to the germs to be found on the gummed side of stamp or envelope. Other and more serious diseases have been caused by this habit that Is so universal and seems so harmless One throat specialist In a hospital declares that many chronic affections of the Jhroat are found among persons who have as their livelihood the addressing ad-dressing and stamping of envelopes. Bad skin diseases have ben known to follow this habit, and it has even caused pulmonary troubles. It Is after all but a habit, and a bad one. It takes no more time and Is quite as easy to moisten the stamp with a damp sponge or rag. Where many letters must be stamped and sealed there are good pa tent inventions by which the sponge Is kept moist |