Evening Republican, Volume 16, Number 35, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 February 1912 — How It Works. [ARTICLE]

How It Works.

Hsu Ping-Gheu, Chinese Consul at San Francisco, discussed at a recent dinner his country s customs. “There is one custom,’’ said a young girl, “that I can’t understand—and that is the Chinese custom of committing suicide by eating gold leaf. I can’t understand how gold leaf can kill.**' “The partaker, no doubt,” smiled the consul, “eucc' , in*s from a consciousness of inward gilt.”