Show fURIOUS AN MOB LIOB SPAT AT UPON AME I French h politeness n is a tradition warmed over from the last or it Is an accomplishment left out of o othe the education of the lower classes re remak marla mak marh an American girl giri just back from the other side If Jf It were not I for forthe the exposition and nd the necessity of making it pay payout out of the pockets of foreigners I dont doubt that Paris would soon become too warm wahn to hold many English speaking individuals who have a natural objection to being held UD un on the street and catechised aS a to their nationality and sympathies in the South African affair That is a common everyday occur occurrence occurrence occurrence rence In the city famous for good man mal manners manners ners whose ninetynine out of every hundred citizens detest England Of course there is a goodly number out of any ninetynine who are too busy and ad too polite to stop and conquer every limb of the race they meet but down among the little UttIe shopkeepers and in the humbler quarters quarters tern of Paris there is a degree of ill feeling toward the English displayed too frankly and too frequently to be overlooked I Naturally enough the American girl girlis is often the unhappy viCtim of slights and nd insults offered by pseudo Boer Boor who read the Parisian v journals who regard all alI English Eng ish speaking persons as British subjects or who dont mind sassing an American anyway anway because of such bygones as the Spanish war and the feeling In the United States for Di Dreyfus Then the American Ameri an girl firl takes the therl I risk rl sk of these contretemps by her fond fondness fondness fondness ness for running about in couples or sole Rione aone prowling into way shops and restaurants and indulging indulging ing her appetite for the picturesque by haunting the quaint and narrow streets of Paris There is where she Is daily dally and sometimes hourly hoWly chal challenged challenged challenged by lazy l zy hotheaded loafers whose favorite diversion is to spring suddenly 8 in her way and insolently de demand demand demand mand etes or dramatically dramatically dramatically cally hiss A has bas los l s As a rule he repeats these phrases for a few steps and then slouches off or goes back to his glass of absinthe but bul sometimes he is not discouraged by frigid contempt and it is hardly a com coin comfortable comfortable sensation to be dogged a quarter quarter ter of a mile through some street I where cabs rarely penetrate and An AnI I chivalry is unknown by an unshaven d creature who shakes his fist at you while he indulges in language of which you happily dont know the translation It is useless to stop and explain that you are not English and cally suggest that he mind his own business because that Is so much oil on the flame fiame and a crowd cr wd gathers and if J woman woman came cam hurrying back along the I path spat fairly and squarely in the thet t pitty p tt Americans faq face and whisked away through the shrubbery For my own part what annoyed me most was the rarely T falling failing query in inthe inI Inthe I the big shops Is madam English or orI and What does madame I think about the cruel crupI war Such ques questions questions were certainly irrelevant to the I business and conversation about spring hats and parasols para but I could not I help noticing an increase pf f good will willin willin willin in the or womans manner I so soon as I announced my nationality It is off the beaten track of foreign shoppers that these questions must be answered discreetly When an old woman on a little street off the th Avenue de Suffrin asked which way my sympathies were given and I Ir recklessly ly said I 1 thought the British were right r ht I was bundled out of her dusty den deltin in short order and nd told that there was nothing there for forme forme forme me to buy Of course France could not and would not go to war with England but for all that any visitor to Paris Pads can canI see sufficiently violent ViOl nt feeling displayed I by the lower classes to require all the common senSe sene of the upper to keep it under Just for curiosity I would oud occasionally buy a of La PatrIe the little yellow y ow evening sheet sold broadcast among the poorer and working folk X bought it to read Francois Cas 0 s editorials Mind you he is representative of all that is best in modern Ii ench literature and cultivation and his powerful argument runs that all who wh fail to sympathize with the Boers Bo rs are friends of England all friendly feo tp England necessarily be believe beneve lieve neve in Dreyfus DreYfU and all aU supporters of Dreyfus are arch enemies of France It is arguments f this sort coming from so high a source that work like madness in the brains of Parisians who are so excitable and so pitifully ignorant that one woman assured me methe methe methe the United States Jay right next the Transvaal That jg j what renders it un unpleasant unpleasant unpleasant pleasant for Americans and English in Paris Pans while as for fop native Parisians itis it itIs Itis Is distinctly to profess but butone butone butone one way of feeling S the women women of his class arrive they j 1 I I will sort sort to that fearsome weapon of the virago spitting A arming girl from stop tg in Lt I our pension was WS caught in J tt fth these melees Sh Sll Was a handsome hands m rosy creature of a distinctly English type of good looks and walking in one of the arks narks with a 3 girl friend she passed a working W man hanging on the arm of a rie e escort i rt They eyed ey d r kr r severely as au she sassed assed d and loudly made some sweepingly sW uncomplimentary remark about b all things j I English Thi Then n a n moment later the thet t 0 |