Evening Republican, Volume 19, Number 153, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 June 1915 — Worked Both Ways. [ARTICLE]

Worked Both Ways.

A story is told by President Poincare of an old peasant who was very superstitious. A neighbor said to him one day: “That potato you gave me to carry in my pocket as a cure for rheumatism has had a wonderful effect. 1 haven’t had a twinge since you gave it to me." “There!” exclaimed the peasant triumphantly, “I told you a potato can ried in the pocket was a cure for rheumatism. and you wquldn't believe me.” “Yes,” the other admitted, “and the really strange thing is that it must have been exercising its influence on me before you gave it to me, for i never had a twinge before I began carrying it.”