When Marion Gleason was a busy housewife with four small children, she had an experience that leaves any mother limp: the maid who gave year-old Peter his morning tablespoonful .
A very small quantity of ether does the trickabout a tablespoonful in an air-tight chamber containing 27 cubic feet, or a cubic centimeter injected into the stem.
A daily bunch of bananas each, a tablespoonful of salt, held them for three months.