Jasper County Democrat, Volume 6, Number 50, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 March 1904 — Witty Response of Lecturer. [ARTICLE]

Witty Response of Lecturer.

A professor who acted as chairman of a meeting at which Max O’Bell was to lecture Introduced the Frenchman in the following manner: * t “Ladies and gentlemen, when we wish to see ourselves as individuals we have recourse to the mirror. This we cannot do as a nation. I take pleasure In introducing a gentleman who will act as a French mirror, by means of which you will, I am sure, obtain an adequate and pleasing view of yourselves as a nation.”

The Introduction pleased O’Rell, and be responded in a vein as Jovial. “I am requested to reflect on a nation. However, I must take second place to the man In the moon, for he reflects on the earth. As an Imported French mirror, I shall do the best I can to give you a correct picture of the nation. And if your chairman remains where be Is, In the background, he will add greatly to the reflective power of the mirror.'*