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Show AMERICANS EASY TO IDENTIFY Marks Caused by Collisions With the Deadly Rocker Put Nationality Beyond Dispute. , "Scars on the ankles identify as American those found dead abroad," said a coroner's physician., 'Yes, our -ankle scars identify us over there as Infallibly as our gold teeti. "You see, we are the only people Whose ankles get scarred by banging into the .sharp points of rockers ia the dark. "FourlGSSed, chairs don't hurt in the " dark in this way. Bang into them a dozen times a night, and they merely impart a slight bruise to the knee. "But a bedroom rocker, when you go pTowling In your bare feet about a coal black bedroom, is more dangerous danger-ous than a man-trap. How many times, in the dead blackness of the night, have you been impaled by the ankles or nearly impaled by the ankles on the sharp, upstanding points of a bedroom rocker? Just look at your ankles when you undress this evening. You may not be aware of it, but I'll guarantee you'll find on each ankle five or six scars, the marks of terrible, ter-rible, midnight collisions with the deadly rocker. "And that's how It is that they identify iden-tify Americans abroad by the rocking chair scars with criss-cross the bony, ' stiff ankles of the male and the round and supple ankles of the female American." |
