Democratic Sentinel, Volume 17, Number 14, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 21 April 1893 — Familiar Extravagance. [ARTICLE]

Familiar Extravagance.

“It is a peculiar fact," observed a cashier of a papular restaurant, “that mast people help themselves to half a dozen toothpicks after each meal, when each individual among them must know, if he thinkß about it, that he won’t more than half use one of them. But with most of them it is merely a matter of habit. They 101 l into it originally, I suppose, by yielding to the idea that it is true economy to help yourself liberally to what doesn’t cost anything. I oftsn wonder what they do with all the toothpicks they take away. Some people contract a habit of chewing toothpicks. It would be far better for them if they ohewed tobacco, or even gum, for iho fiber of the wood often lodges In the throat or gets Into some piece of internal machinery, where it plays the mischief."