Jasper County Democrat, Volume 3, Number 52, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 14 April 1900 — THE INQUISITIVE TONGUE. [ARTICLE]

THE INQUISITIVE TONGUE.

Seem* to Have an Original Will an* Consciousness of It* Own. The curiosity of the tongue doe* not cause the human being so much trouble as the curiosity of the eye. But the tongue, within its limits, ia the most curious of all. Let the dentist make a change in. the mouth; let him remove a tooth, or replace with his admirable artifice one that has long been absent; let him change the formation of a tooth by rounding off a corner or building up a cavity, and see what the tongue will do! It will search out that place, taking careful and minute account of th* change. Then it will linger near the place. If it is called to other duties it comes back as soon as they are discharged and feels the changed place all over again as if it had not explored and rummaged there already. It makes no difference that the** repeated investigations presently cause annoyance to its supposed master, the man; (he tongue in nothing more than in this matter proves t hat it is an unruly member and will not be controlled. It seems io have an original will and consciousness of its own, and nothing will serve it except th* fuIL sst satisfaction of its curiosity. It will wear itself out, perhaps, but it will find out all about the strangw change.—Boston Transcript