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...horse, donkey and mule meat was set before three members of the famed Sacred Union Cabinet of Prime Minister Raymond Poincar. The three, all by way of being gourmets, *were: Paul Painlev, mathematician, twice Prime Minister (1917; 1925); Minister of Agriculture Henri Queuille; and Minister of Commerce Maurice Bokanowski...
...these choice morsels began to appear in noble plentitude, the eyes of the Statesmen-Gourmets were observed to glisten with anticipation. Minister of Agriculture Queuille commented favorably upon both the aroma and the taste of his consomm. Minister of Commerce Bokanowski forked rapidly both saucisses and saucissons. Meanwhile good M. Painlev had consumed a second and then a third portion of the truffled donkey's liver...
When toast time came, M. Painlev raised an approving, effervescent glass to his hosts: The National Horse Industry Association. Their chef had proved, he said, that even meats not generally esteemed could achieve a rare deliciousness. Minister of Commerce Bokanowski added the inspiring information as to how many pounds of horse, donkey and mule meat are annually consumed in France. Subsequent toasts to le cheval, Vane and le mulct were capped, of course, by the final and inevitable "A la Belle France...
Result: much new and efficient telephone equipment has been Hoovered into service by dynamic, persuasive M. Bokanowski.* Last week he presided with dancing eyes over the banquet given at Paris by those smart, shrewd telephone subscribers who instigated the whole reform. They, pleased by the recent marked acceleration of service, gallantly tendered the banquet, last week, to 100 telephone-women chosen by lot to represent their Nimble Sisterhood...
Rising to a toast, M. Bokanowski fervently assured them in the name of France that their professional honor stands wholly vindicated, and hastened to add his conviction that they are excelled in no respect by foreign telephonists. Scandinavians and U. S. citizens who used Paris telephones, last week, were not so sure, still think the service in the homelands quickest...