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Show I French a Polite People j - - . . . J . m During tho past summer, which I spent exclusively among French pec-plo pec-plo in a hotel at Saint-Germain, I estimated esti-mated that I lost quite twenty-four hours out of each week saying "Good .morning" and "Good evening" to tho men, women, llttlo children and dogs about mo. If you encounter tho same porson twenty-five Urnes In tho pamo day you must each timo smllo rapturously, raptur-ously, pause, at least shako hands, If you do not kiss, ceremoniously In-qulro In-qulro how ho or sho Is "going" and ceremoniously bid him or her "au re-voir" re-voir" at parting. Not only ovory man nnd woman ox-poets ox-poets this, but nil tho llttlo children toddlo up to you, shako hands, and ox-act ox-act the samo amount of cororaony. Then overy well regulated French family ha3 a dog who moro than Hko- ly occupies a chair and eats off a "m pinto besldo you at tho table, so that R It is considered churlish If you do not SB also stop nnd toll tho dog "bon Jour" a dozen times a day, pausing to tako I tho pnw which ho Is prettily tnught to I oxtend to you. M When the washerwoman brings M homo your linen there aro at least I flvo minutos Bpent In ceremoniously H greeting and parting from her. In tho operation of receiving nnd paying for I llnon you exchange "morels" nnd "par- I dons" not fewer than ton times. Any M other serving' porson or tradesman who comes to do business with you j throughout the day you similarly ro- S colvo with "Bon Jour, raonslour," nnd- j "Au rovolr," and you thank him and ffl beg his pardon ns ofton as you can 4 possibly get tho..words Into tho longth !fj of his story. Harper's Bazar. m |