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Star (Christchurch), Issue 8100, 27 August 1904, Page 5

* amrnmMrv-mmmmwn.mvmmi***^**'^^^. It is curious how wh«n opportunity knocks at our door we usually behove afterwards that we were away oh a v;»'^ Spinach contains more iron than 7°* , egg, which again' has more ™.* n^!l' Apples, lentils, strawberries, w hlte "JJJ pears, potatoes, wheat, come next, milk 19 at the bottom of the scaleMark Twain was greatly A atte^ ** in a friend, who had been visiting 3 U *™A told! him how the great man had P o ".™ to an open book lying on a table and saw ■• "You must/bo careful not to disturb tnai. That book is 'The Innocents A J r £* a : in _: read it night and morning." Wf. *■? ' he tells the story, himself-boughv. ■»*£« of Darwin's biography, tokain what m.fc be said there about himself, ,- He <J™ «'- --appointed to find no mention of b"? •* • The only possible allusion to his works, ne says, was th* statement that Dtf*j£ "J his later years, suffered from a sP^V^ atrophy of thebrain,- which ' &**»?%?£ hhnirom the enjoyment of g«^-'WrX and compelled him to seek mental •*"* "™ the perusal of trashy novel** aa* vacuoahumour^ .