Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 36, Number 90, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 5 July 1904 — Witty Response of a Lecturer. [ARTICLE]

Witty Response of a Lecturer.

A professor who acted as chairman of a meeting at which Max O’Roll was to lecture introduced the Frenchman in the following manner: “Ladies and gentlemen, when we Wish to see ourselves as individuals W 6 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 Jie responded in a vein as jovial: “I km requested to reflect on a nation. .However, I must take seeond place to the man in the moon, for he reflects bn the earth. As an imported French mirror I shall do the best I can to give yon 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.”