DINNER FARCE
MUSHROOM "POISON” SYMPTOMS
DINERS DELUDED BY MAD COOK
United Press Association—By Etactri* Telegraph—Copyright.)
ROME, October •19
Forty citizens who were at a ban* quot, finished a dish of mushrooms, when the chef dashed into the room and declared they had eaten toadr stools, and that they would all be ill. The whole forty guests immediately complained that they were unwell. Sooii they were rolling on the floor, and crying out for doctors. Physicians came and diagnosed their symptoms as those of poisoning, whereupon the head waiter reported that the chef had gone mad, and was beating his head agains’t a wall.
The remains of the mushrooms were then examined, and they. were . found to be sound. The diners immediately recovered both their health and their good spirits.
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Hokitika Guardian, 21 October 1933, Page 5
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129DINNER FARCE Hokitika Guardian, 21 October 1933, Page 5
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