Show an experience in aarts A young woman recounting some european experiences the other evening told among other things of an episode in the french capital while in paris she said 1 I went into a shop one day to buy gloves As ag I 1 dont understand french I 1 selected one that bore bora a sign in the window english spoken here I 1 found however that as lie he usually is the inglese man es ees out but I 1 managed with much interchange of dumb show to make my pur purchase chase I 1 had bad about finished when a dapper r frenchman hman whom I 1 took to be an 0 official corresponding to our floor walker approached pro ached and with great suavity rattled off along speech in rapid french of whose signification I 1 could gather no hint not however to be outdone in courtesy when lie had finished I 1 began with much smiling intonation and gesture and equal of manner with him the childrens lingo beeny beeny mony mi ba bony si etc following it without an instants intermission with intra mintra autra corn and ending in a fluent and elegant delivery of Theop bilus thistle the successful cessa ul thistle sifter As the last sibilant rolled from my tongue I 1 turned with a sweep of condescending sc grace and walked out of the store leaving the clerks and the official transfixed in open mouthed wonder at m my y jargon to this oay day I 1 believe they have not decided whether I 1 was a choo taw I 1 a parsee or an escaped lunatic N new ew york times |