Treasures New & Old; Eight Thousand B.C. Really?

“How do I love thee? Let me count the ways.”

The poet means a person, but many people would say this about their downfall.

Fortunate are you if you can take ‘em or leave ‘em—sweet things to eat, that is.

One woman already of grandmother age says she simply doesn’t dare have a cookie or piece of cake, because the taste of one of these would result in bingeing on such goodies till the whole plateful is gone, “and I’d go looking for more.”

Other people, granted, probably many fewer, are indifferent to the whole tribe of sweet things and actually prefer to avoid them.

One little boy when asked wha...