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Show HAD TO MAKE ARGUMENT GOOD. Woman's Statement That Cut the Ground Under Professor. A very charming woman was relating relat-ing to a group of Intel ested listeners the rather pathetic story of a young girl who had contracted yellow fever fiom a bo nf laco purchased for her bridal clothes and mailed to her fiom New Orleans. A physician piesent at once declined that the disease could not have been carried in this manner. "Hut, doctor," the lady urged, "I was In the town at tho time. Sadie was my best friend, and I knew all the- clrcuniBtauces." "Impossible," he persisted. "Experiments "Experi-ments made a fow yeais ago In Cuba demonstrated fully that the disease can be conveyed only by a mosquito, the stygomvlu fasciata." The lady hesitated for a moment, divided di-vided between politeness and conviction, convic-tion, and then appeased both. "Hut, you see, doctor," she replied smoothly, "the Incident which I was relating happened ten jears ago, befpro the stygomyla was discovered!" ilarper's Weekly. |
