Evening Republican, Volume 17, Number 79, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 April 1913 — New Trlck. [ARTICLE]

New Trlck.

Said the curious luncher to the head waiter: "What is that man at the corner table up to—the one who sends the waiter scurrying to and from the kitchen so often?" "He is a thermometer crank," said the head waiter. "Never see one? There are any number of them floating about. He carries a little thermomter packed away in a velvet case. He uses it especially to test the temperature of food and drink. Every bite he swallows undergoes tho thermometer test before it gets into his mouth. If it isn’t the right temperature at the first trial he keeps on heating it over or cooling it off until it is right. Some scientist has figured out at just what temperature all food should be eaten to best agree with the system. That man has secured a table of statistics and he now regulates his life according to It and a thermometer."