Forgetfulness.

Horowhenua Chronicle, 15 April 1913, Page 4

Forgetfulness.

THE STUPID OHAIRMAiN. A good story of forgotfulnivsis and its effects is told by General (Sheridan, an American, who visited lis yours ago on a lecturing tour. Ho was taken t-o a country show, and on the way back remarked that 'the Australian show was much like tho American State iair. "Some stock, some machinery ; and very often tho same sort of ass in tile chair at dinner—a man who doesn't know what lie is going to say and says it. ''A man like that in the chair," he ex-" plained, "may get you into more trouble than you can very well get out of. 1 had such a man in the chair once, when was canvassing for a friend who was running for the oificc of S'tato Governor. He introduced something like this: 'Ladies and gentlemen: It's my proud privilege to-night to introduce you to one of tho greatest living orators—a man, ladies and gentlemen, whose name is a liousoliold word, in every mansion and cabin of the broad Yew-nited States of America. I shall say no more, but simply introduce to you Then ho paused, pondered an instant, and', leaning towards nie, asked in a stage whisper, 'Say, what is your name again?'' Woomera in the Australasian.