The old poser why a slice of buttered toast always lands butter downwards when allowed to fall on the floor fins started brains agitating one. London "newspaper. And, as usual, some discovery of a Chinese custom in connection with the ques: tion "has been made, flippantly or otherwise, by a reader in answer to it. The controversy started when one reader inquired the truth of an old Devonshire rhyme which goes:
Whene'er you take a piece of toast Buttered alcely on the brown 10 falls upon the sanded oer And. always with the butler down, Various affirmations of the truth contained in the rhyme were forthcoming but one writer ended on a bright note. "I always understood that the Chinese invariably butter their slices of bread underneath, thereby obviating the possibility of such an appalling calamity," he wrote. There used to be a time when the Irish and other people were sclect= fed as illustrations of the absurdities 4m paradox but fashions are chang
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