Evening Republican, Volume 17, Number 188, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 8 August 1913 — NAP RUINS JUDGE’S DIGNITY [ARTICLE]

NAP RUINS JUDGE’S DIGNITY

"Is That You, Eugenie?” He Asks When Roused from His Slumber in Court. Paris. —“Oh! sleep, it is a gentle thing, beloved from pole to pole!" But people who indulge in forty winks at the wrong moment get into trouble sometimes. • Two Judges of the Seine tribunal are Inflicted rather badly with the judicial habit of napping, and the other day during a case in which they were on the bench in company with the president of the court the influence of the heat wave combined with the tedious pleadings of an uninter eating case sent them into a profound sleep.

According to a report that has aroused much merriment in legal circles one of the judges, being roused by the toe of a colleague gently pressed against his calf, murmured, “Is that you, Eugenie?” and awoke to wonder why the court was dissolved in laughter.