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Despite one-sided golf, the tournament entertained with extra curricula features. George Von Elm, of the U. S. squad, hooked a ball into the rough, came up to it, began to address the ball, was about to hit it when from the underbrush wriggled a snake. It disappeared...
...When I was about eight years of age I was greatly frightened by seeing a snake crawl out from behind some furniture in my room. My cries brought the elders, and they assured me that this appearance of a serpent was a good omen-that it meant I would become strong and great. For a time, in my ignorance, I had a worshipful attitude toward snakes...
Testimony indicates that unorthodox foods can be made appetizing. Snake and chicken are much alike.* Like white meat of chicken too are frog legs. Horse meat is sweet, dog steaks flat. Rat and cat are little different from tame rabbit. Snails fried alive in butter have a quaint taste, are tough to chew. Human flesh is sweet. Toasted grasshoppers have a nutty flavor. Earthworms, washed clean and gently stewed, have a tangy tartness...
...graduating class of nurses at the Charity Hospital training school: "In older times we referred to humans as the human race, but according to this foundation we are being classed with the animals on the farm, the cow, the horse, the mule-perhaps with the alligator and the snake. . . . According to this foundation, I have no right to be born, for I am the youngest of 16 children and God bless my mother for every one of them! . . . Thank heaven that I was born! And if I do say it myself, I have not done so badly in my lifetime...
Prohibitionists were delighted, anti's were disgusted, last week, to learn that a poisonous snake bite should not be followed by a powerful alcoholic drink. Dr. Afrania do Amaral, director of the snake serum institute at Butantan, Brazil, declared that far from being a remedy ". . . alcoholic liquors are harmful to persons bitten by venomous snakes." The alcohol acts first as a stimulant, speeding up the circulation, quickly distributing the poison through the body. When the effect wears off it becomes a depressant, lowering the victim's resistance, hindering him from using all his natural forces to fight...