Jasper County Democrat, Volume 11, Number 27, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 1 August 1908 — Rockefeller’s Little Joke. [ARTICLE]

Rockefeller’s Little Joke.

John D. Rockefeller has one virtue which even his greatest critics won't deny him. He doesn’t affect public dinners. The secret of this abstinence he recently confided to bis family physician. , “In the first place,’’ he said, “I can’t eat much, as you know." “But you don’t have to eat at such feasts,” protested the doctor. "I’m aware of that,” replied J. D., “but you do have to sit through the speeches, and if there’s anything I dread it’s that sort of thing. To my mind an after dinner speech is like a bicycle wheel; the longer the spoke the greater the tire.” ' Art Fakes. Sir Casper Purdon Clarke, curator of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, said at a dinner apropos of forged paintings: "It Isn’t strange. I have seen myself, In Paris, rare old books—incunabula—whose dates showed that they were Issued before the invention of printing.’*

An armload of old papers for a nickel at The Democrat office.