Democratic Sentinel, Volume 15, Number 28, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 31 July 1891 — The Karon’s Custom. [ARTICLE]

The Karon’s Custom.

Inquiring Lady—Do yon always drink beer when you are thirsty ? Baron Snickensuts—No. ma’am. I alvay drinks vater ven I am thirsdy, shust the same as yon do. “Then when do yon drink beer ?" “The rest off the dime.” Dr. Holbrook attributes the prevalent poor quality of oar teeth largely to their lack of employment, owing to onr use of foods cooked soft, and so he reoommends the eating of raw, dry, hard wheat, which duly exercises the teeth and promotes flow of salvia—say, a teaspoonful daily. Nails, hair and teeth —analogous tissues that thrive in savagedom—seem to be “fading, still fading” with the progress of civilization.

Mrs. Annie Besant is quoted as saying that theosophy will ultimately bring people to their senses. If that is its purpose and object on earth it seems to have been especially fortunate in gathering unto itself a lot of people who stand deeply in need of its beneficent offices;