Evening Republican, Volume 17, Number 304, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 December 1913 — Minister and Moving Pictures. [ARTICLE]

Minister and Moving Pictures.

M. Cheron, French minister of labor, was sitting in the darkness of a cinema show watching the pictures of an official reception. On the film appeared M. Cheron himself in the procession. M. Cheron’s neighbor in the house remarked to him upon the extraordinary likeness between him and the gentleman on the film. He added, “The only difference between you monsieur, and the real M. Cheron seems to be that you and I are mere plain bourgeois, whereas, of course, M. Cheron, the minister, is one of our greatest geniuses.” The labor minister could not resist it. He took his card and handed it silently to hE neighbor. The neighbor returned his own card, and on it, M. Cheron managed by the dim light to read the name of M. Rene Besnard, who Was a predecessor of M. Cheron's Ln a previous cabinet.