Sugar, Yes... but Spice?
Sugar and spice and all things nice—that's what little girls are made of.
Well, says John Schell in
Reader's Digest, sugar anyhow. A girl is also made of enough chlorine to disinfect five swimming pools; 38.5 kilos of oxygen; 57 grams of salt; 47 liters of water; 1.3 kilos of calcium; 10.8 kilos of carbon; enough phosphorus for ten bars of soap; enough iron to make a large nail; enough sulfur to rid a dog of fleas; and enough glycerine to explode an artillery shell.
But Mr. Schell found no spice at all.
(How much did the little girl weigh, do you suppose?)