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Show Apricot Gum. That vicious fanatic, El Mahdi, has made things so uncertain in the "Sand' Soudan' that the guni3 of the region, notably gum arabic, are becoming almost as scarce and high as the. precious metals. Indeed a "gum arabic famine" is prophesied. But we Southern Californians have other resources, and can snap our fingers at El Mahdi. Apricot gum is as good as gum arabic for the mucilage bottle. bot-tle. It hi good to eat, too. Let your little tots run in the orchard and help themselves; them-selves; it is cheaper than gum drops and far wholesomer. If you are troubled with dyspepsia or heartburn eat it yourself. Gum arabic is recommended to be used thus, and for all we can see gum apricot is just as good. And then the mucilage bottle of old, always getting empty, how easy to replenish it now ! It remains for some enterprising ' person to find out whether, put in alcohol, gum apricot may not be useful in other ways. Rural Califomian. |