Evening Republican, Volume 20, Number 282, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 November 1916 — FAMOUS SCIENTIST AS [ARTICLE]

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Visitors Mistaken in Thinking Metchnikoff Was Engaged In Laboratory Experiments.

One day some distinguished visitors who had arrived in Paris and were being escorted about by a committee were taken to call upon the late Professor Metchnikoff (the famous scientist who believed that the secret of long life lay in diet) toward the hour of noon. The laboratory was all but empty, as most of the workers had departed for that sacred meal, the French dejeuner. But Metchnikoff was there himself intent upon a vessel he was holding over a gas burner. “It must be a very interesting experiment that keeps you engaged even at this hour,” remarked one of the committee. “Look for yourself,” said Metchnikoff, and, continuing to stir with a glass tube, held up the dish so that a delicious fragrance rose to the noses of the visitors. “That’s what I’m working at," he laughed, “banana In slices, fried in butter. It is excellent.”—World’s Work.

Judge Steers of Brooklyn, N. Y, rules that a husband may legally spank a wife who refuses kisses. A wise girl knows enough not to pretend to know a lot more.