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Show DR. WILEY FAVORS KISSING Dr. Harvey W. Wiley, pure food expert ex-pert and former chief of the bureau of chemistry, department of agriculture, agricul-ture, is acquiring an elaborate handle to his name. It is no longer just plain "Doc" Wiley. When you address ad-dress the illustrious food expert now you must say "Hon. Harvey W. Wiley, M. D., Sc. D." He is really all of that. Only a few days ago he was all of this minus three letter's. Those letters were "Sc. D." They were conferred upon the food expert the other day as an honorary hon-orary degree by Lafayette college, at Easton, Pa. Those three little letters let-ters mean that Dr. Wiley is a dbctor of science. Dr. Wiley returned from Easton to the national capital safely with the new handle to his name. The other night he showed, however, that he was the same Dr. Wiley, regardless regard-less of the appendage to his name, by expressing his views upon the sub ject of prohibitory osculation, which is now worrying many of the lovers of the Capital City. Dr. Wiley is utterly opposed to the movement on foot for the abolition of kissing on the ground that it is a menace to public health. "Prohibit kissing?" queried the food expert. "Oh, no! I'm not in favor of 'that procedure by any means. I don't want osculation prohibited while I am living. I don't care what they do when I am dead." "But do you think it is a menace to public health," he was asked. "I have known mothers," he replied, "who were evidently of that opinion opin-ion with respect to the kissing of their daughters. But for myself I think It is rather a danger to one's health to refrain from kissing." |