Woman Bite

The late King Alexander of Greece died of a monkey bite (1920). Last week the Prime Minister of the Greek Republic, famed Eleutherios Venizelos, was bitten by a woman.

"Let me kiss your hand!" pleaded the woman (not old) as M. Venizelos was leaving the Presidential Palace. After sinking her young teeth into the 64-year-old statesman's hand she screamed, "You traitor to the King!" fled.

Cried Eleutherios Venizelos, "Let her go! I command it!" Physicians pronounced the bite "clean," scouted rumors of hydrophobia.

The king in whose name the bite was taken is George II, now banished, who recently and superfluously announced that he would return and rule over his country if called upon to do so by a national plebiscite.