Show MAKING OLD NEWS TIMELY how dr charcot used the paris papers while isolated Ito in the antarctic ice making old news seem timely was one of the be diversions of 0 dr jean clia charcot cot the french explorer during his ITO years of isolation in the antarctic ice where he did some wonderful work in the scientific tabulation ot of tides and measurement of ocean depths he carried with him two years files of the paris newspapers and on each day spread the papers of the corresponding day of the two preceding years on the table in the cabin for or the benefit of his followers 1 I have recently turned out from a locker recorded dr charcot in his diary on july 7 midwinter complete com flies files of the matin and the figaro tor for two ars yrs yo are before our departure kindly I 1 resented wesen ted to us by their editors editor every day I 1 put on the wardroom table the numbers corresponding to the present date and personally I 1 have never read the pape papa D so pt p t tc tent ively or thoroughly it if I 1 must confess it the news now no 10 ancient the scandals the affairs interest me just as much as it if I 1 had never heard beard of them I 1 had bad forgotten them nearly all and I 1 await the next issue with impatience I 1 am now lauch better acquainted with macoun tra arr politics and the worlds happenings in 1907 than I 1 have ever been and probably than I 1 shall ever be ofin new york evening post |