Show THE MAID MEANT WELL out her action embarrassed abent minded professor dr john bascom dascom ex president ot of the university of wisconsin drew attention to himself recently by a bitter attack on the business methods ot of john D rockefeller dr bascom was celebrated at the university of wis coasin for his absentmindedness absent mindedness many stories are told of him in this regard one of the stories concerns a reception that he once gave to the students of the freshman class lem anade was served during the evening and when the maid an innocent crea ture turo fresh from ireland handed the tray to her master he put out hia his hand to it and then forgetting what he was about to do let his fingers play aimlessly for sever several al minutes among the glasses while he talked warmly upon uron some subject that much interested him but the maid misunderstood dr bascom bascoms s hesitation she tl ought that she would help him out of it I 1 think this Is the largest sir she said and she thrust into his hand the glass that contained the greatest quan city of lemonade |