Show AN experience IN BRUSSELS ao an american woman round that heing misunderstood bilant a long walk brussels is the worst place to be understood in that I 1 found in europe said eaid a woman just back from a year s trip n cload 1 I 1 went there e in the heat of summer partly to consult a physician a specialist whom a 0 friend at home had suggested I 1 should see the day after my arrival I 1 went down into the courtyard of the hotel where there wore were a number of cabs in waiting and calling one of the te drivers told him I 1 wanted to be ta take kea ke a fl to a certain number in the boulevard waterloo he nodded and ran kofl returning in a few moments with lit man mail who evidently managed the I 1 AA service to him I 1 re repeated peate I 1 that tha t I 1 wanted to be taken to the boulevard waterloo and asked the rate ono one franc he said sit down please a 1 I sat domm and he sent the rab mau mail away I 1 waited and for fifteen minutes then him a again 0 ain he nodded 1 cheel cheerfully tully said very soon lond and motioned me tr to the bench in another fifteen min utes a stout perspiring dutchman appeared carrying ci a big umbrella the manager beckoned to me point ed cd to the new arrival mumbled soule thing and asked for the fratic I 1 gave a it to him concluding the place was very near and that this thi i man was to show we the way and stepped out into the street after him ho he raised his big umbrella and bore away at a tremendous gait I 1 opened my parasol and followed hirn him in two minutes we had turned four corners and only for the beacon ol of the bobbing 0 umbrella in front of we me I 1 was hopelessly lost in the belgian capital I 1 even know the sti ta i the hotel was in and to ad add to nit mi consternation the name of the bodei itself had escaped me but I 1 thought recovering myself my self pos possession bession piter 11 little ill ri right bt this tel low is evidently going goin toniea F litre such kasuch a chase a as ho he led me ino I 1 twice tiivi I 1 caught up to him wd and vainly ann to aak if we were nearly thero tah itt hf it only muttered boulevard waterloo Wa terho and hurried on once I 1 saw raw a rali and running i ahead I 1 grabl g his arm and pointed poin teil to it but tw tie understand and off we once more it was tle the pied piea piper of hame hain lin over again only no sebut tive strains lured me on but a big buli bolt bing umbrella abrella ur and the desperate fea I 1 of losing it wo we had walked val ked lie tween three and four miles in the oppressive heat most of the way up hill before that dreadful umbrella suddenly stopped before the khym ciana ains door I 1 was vas worn out artith fatigue fitsgue and worry and the doctor who spoke english beautifully shook his hia head in m M arn pathy thou though h his hia ayea twinkled inkler when I 1 ex what ivban had produced this con my trouble all caino frum fiam caking to be ba taken which in drus brus gels eels means inducted conducted ou on foot it a neef needless fleas to say that I 1 had a eat call lack back to the hotel botel whiz whoso 0 name the doctor promptly supplied from my description of etli it her point of view iu in now new york bunea J |