It would appear that when in our childhood we used to sing that little girls were made of sugar and spice and everything that was nice, there was more in the jingle than we realized, A Harley Street specialist has come forward with the information that the sex of a child can be arranged if, before conception, the mother is injected with either an acid or an alkali solution,—depending upon which sex is required by the parent.
Girls, it transpires are the results of "acid" mothers!
Now, we all know that sugar and spice, when taken as articles of diet are acid-forming—or so we have been told these many years, and if mammas have succeeded in maintaining their sugar and spice compositions this gives a medical reason for the production of little girls.
We do not know if there is anything particularly alkaline about slugs and snails and puppy dog's "poor man" he said he "no chargee anything." I am told that Yates Road tailors who work at the instigation of foreign friends, for the poor, likewise make no charge for their efforts.
Five thousand of the Chiao Tung people were sent back to their homes just over a week ana before leaving each was fitted out with adequate clothing ena allowed to take ten pounds of rice for each adult, and five pounds for each child. This will help the families until they get really settled down again
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