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Foraging ants found the milk drippings, scurried back to the ant hill with the tidings. When Mrs. Patrick returned from the tomato patch, the crib, the coverlet, Harold's head were a rusty-red quiver. The baby was unconscious. Doctors thought that he might recover from the ant-bite poison (formic acid). But the red ants, like the all-devouring soldier ants which terrorize tropical Asia, had nipped the sight from...
...waited until her 3-month-old child Harold partly emptied his bottle. Then Mrs. Watson Patrick tucked him in his crib under the tree at the edge of the tomato patch, wiped dribble from his lips, and left him for an hour to help her husband cultivate the vines. Unobserved by the Patricks, shack-living tenant farmers of Bells, Tenn., when they placed the child's crib on the ground, was a red ant hill. Nor did Mother Patrick notice that her son's milk bottle was leaking on the coverlet, dripping to the ground...
...they are told that by a simple signature most marvelous things are produced. The scheme would be a very commendable one if it were not for the fact that the student that enters the fairy palace is bled by outrageous prices. For instance: the price of a glass of tomato or orange juice is listed as twenty-five cents; something that cannot possibly cost the Dining Hall System more than ten cents, granting every inclusion of fixed costs such as overhead and service. And at that an infant could tell you that the same juices are diluted practically fifty-fifty...
...Boole then demanded to know why people should drink horrid tasting alcoholic mixtures when they could have such nice healthful things as tomato juice cocktails; apparently Mrs. Boole is not aware that alcoholics are among the greatest imbibers of tomato juice. However, she went on to say that "now is the time when we who are really dry will demonstrate to the world that the delicious fruit cups we had here today can be prepared without the use of alcoholic liquors...
...were visited up & down the Shenandoah Valley. His guides wanted to show the President the oldest and best but he was more interested in seeing the newest and least dressy. At Big Meadows he stopped to lunch with the woodsters. Menu: fried steak, string beans, mashed potatoes, iced tea. tomato salad, apple cobbler. Declared the President: "All you have to do is to look at you boys to see that the camps are a success. I wish I could take a couple of months off and live here myself. The only difficulty would be that you men have...