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Show J THE MAID MEANT WELL. But Her Action Embarrassed Absent Minded Professor. Dr. John Bascom, ex-president of the University of Wisconsin, drew attention at-tention to himself recently by a bitter attack on the business methods of John D. Rockefeller. Dr. Bascom was celebrated at the University of Wisconsin Wis-consin for his 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. Lemonade Lem-onade was served during the evening, and when the maid an innocent creature crea-ture fresh from Ireland handed the tray to her master, he put out his hand to it, and then, forgetting what he was about to do, let his fingers play aimlessly for several minutes among the glasses while he talked warmly upon some subject that much Interested Inter-ested him. But the maid misunderstood misunder-stood Dr. Bascom's hesitation. She thought that she would help him out of it "I think this is the largest, sir," she said, and she thrust into his hand the glass that contained the greatest quantity quan-tity of lemonade. |