OBITUARY NOTICES
AS CURATIVE RE.MK.DIES. M. Drillin'!, Ilio French Foreign Minister, who Ims just recovered from a rather severe illnc-s, joked merrily nl. tbo expense of a little group of journalistic friends whom he had called to the Quai U’Or-ny for a statement about, bis mooting with Sir Austen C-hamborluin days the Paris correspondent •d die London ’sumiav Times’ on June 3/ Replying to congratulations on his recovery,’ M. llriand said it was the journalists who had cured him much more than ihe doctors. “As son it as a chief sub-editor ontoi - (he preparation of an obituary notice.’’ he said, “the ailing person begins to gci, well. I know an obituary notice of myself was. ordered. Don't forget, J was a chief sub-editor myself, and I don’t forget my experience. I remember that 1 had art obituary notice of Queen Victoria on the ‘stone’ for eight years, and Queen Victoria seemed to gat stronger and stronger. Then there was the Emperor Francis Joseph. How many times was ho reported to be dying, only to recover as soon as the obituary notices were revived. “ Journalistic notices are groat remedies.'’
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Evening Star, Issue 19952, 23 August 1928, Page 9
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188OBITUARY NOTICES Evening Star, Issue 19952, 23 August 1928, Page 9
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