Mavis presentable now—washed, combed, aspirined and swimming a little in Birdie’s housedress.

The women have exuded confidence they will win the seat, but they will have to deal with issues of clanism, gender and economic empowerment, which have featured greatly in the campaigns.

The light-chestnut soils are much more detrital than the chestnut varieties — not only at the surface but throughout the soil strata, except on sandy tracts.

Della Collins Cook, a paleopathologist at Indiana University who did not participate in the study but specializes in treponemal diseases, praised the research as a “very, very interesting step” advancing understanding of syphilis.