Sir, – “Does your chewing gum lose its flavour on the bedpost overnight’', or is it discarded on the street pavement before one hits the leaba? Judging by all those ubiquitous tarlike blobs (flattened gobs of once-fresh gum) that now embellish virtually every public footpath in the land, one would have to conclude that the latter is doubtless the case. – Yours, etc,
PAUL DELANEY,
Dalkey,
Co Dublin.