“I am used very extensively as an April Fool”
Salt and Pepper now teetered forward. A cute little pair, indeed. Salt, all robed in frosty white, first began, and saucily cried out her big name of Sodium Chloride.
“I haven’t much to say except that I look so like sugar you can hardly tell which is which. For that reason I am used very extensively as an April Fool and am most popular on that day.
“I come principally from the United States, of which you all know without my showing you; from Michigan, New York, Ohio, Louisiana, West Virginia, California, Kansas, and Utah.
“Michigan and New York gave in 1888 about three quarters of all the salt produced in the United States.
“The salt of California is made by evaporation of sea water. That of Utah from water of Great Salt Lake.
“That found in Louisiana and Kansas comes by mining rock salt.