Show AN experience IN BRUSSELS an AD american woman found that living il ln understood meant a long walk Bims brussels sels is the worst place to be understood in that I 1 found in E europe cropo paid a woman just back from a years year I 1 s trip abroad 1 I went there in the heat of summer partly to consult fe physician a specialist whom a friend at home had suggested I 1 should soe the day after my arrival I 1 went down into the courtyard of the hotel where there were a number of cubb in in waiting and calling one of tle te drivers told him I 1 wanted to be hakea to a certain number in the boulevard waterloo he nodded and ran off returning in a few moments with tx ft man who evidently managed the roii apt service to him I 1 repeated that I 1 wanted to bo be taken to the boulevard waterloo and asked the rato rate 11 quo franc bensaid he be said sit down I 1 se ill 1 I sat down and ho he sent the call cal man I 1 away I 1 waited and for fifteen minutes cs then approached him again he nodded chwi hilly I 1 sal said d I 1 v very cry soon and motioned me tr I 1 the bench in another fiata va miu I 1 i utes a stout perspiring dutchman appeared carrying 0 a big umbrella i the manager beckoned to mo me point I 1 ed to the new arrival arria al mumbled waw thin thing and asked for the franc I 1 gave it to him concluding the be was very near and that thi ichu was to show mo me themay the way aull and sti out into the street after him he raised his big umbrella and bore away at a tremendous gait 1 opened my parasol and followed hina him in two minutes wo we had tu turned ruiell four comers and only for the beacon of il the bobbin bobbing umbrella in front of me lne I 1 was hopelessly lost in the belgian ri capital pital I 1 oven know the street the hotel was in and to add to my I 1 consternation the name of the hotel botel itself had escaped me but I 1 thought i recovering my self possession after fter a little til ia come out all right k this fel low is evidently going somewhere I 1 such a chase as he led me ino I 1 twice I 1 can caught h t up to him and vainly tried triad to ask if we were nearly there he only muttered boulevard W waterloo ater lot and hurried on once I 1 saw a rab corning coming a and running t ahead I 1 grabbe 1 his hii arm and pointed to it but ue he understand and off we wont went once more it was the pied piper of hamo hame liu lin over again only no i strains lured me on but a big NA IMI bing umbrella and the despe desperate rute foa feu I 1 of losing it we had walked ir tween t three and four miles milea in ill alir oppressive 0 o heat most of the W way up ill hill before that dreadful umbrella suddenly y stopped before the th ceans door I 1 was wo worn ria out with i fatigue and worry worry and the doc 10 I 1 1 j tor who spoke english beautifully I 1 shook his head in grateful sympathy though his eyes t twinkled when I 1 ex es lamed what hul had produced thim enn con P my trouble all came full froni asking to be taken which in brus brua I 1 i sels means conducted on foot it is needless to say that I 1 had a cal chii I 1 I 1 back to the hotel whose name the I 1 I 1 doctor promptly supplied from my I 1 description of it it 1 l her point of view in new york times timea I 1 |