Evening Republican, Volume 23, Number 86, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 8 April 1920 — COMMON ANCESTOR TO BLAME [ARTICLE]

COMMON ANCESTOR TO BLAME

Unsightly "Apple” Is a Legacy Bequeathed to His Posterity by Old Father Adam. We all "have It In” for Adam for shotting to our faces the gates of the Garden of Eden. But many of us, though we may not know it, bear a particular resemblance to this' common ancestor that puts another chip on the shouldeZ For It Is generally conceded that an "Adam’s apple” Is no aid to beauty. And besides making of our Paradise a cold, bare world, it Is Adam who Inflicted upon us this additional burden. When our common progenitor took the fatal bite that forever doomed the rest of us to existence by the sweat of our brows, a piece of the fruit Is supposed to have lodged in his throat and stuck there in his children’s children unto the nth generation. And that Is why the slight proturberance that some people have at the front of the throat is called “Adam’s apple!” Speaking of ancestry, some ot us -carry about enour persons unmistakable proof of our ancient lineage. —Chicago Journal.