Show Englishmen Abroad Writes on Englishman Ono of the reasons whlrh make us so much disliked ns a nation abroad Is i tho way we carry our customs with us and oblige the foreigner for-eigner for the sake of his own pocket to conform to them At the watering places which are much frequented by tho English the hours of meals slowly alter at the principal hotels to suit the English taste Wherever there Is an English colony col-ony there arises noon an English cricket club golf club lawn tennis club sometimes some-times a mans club and the little society acquires a unity and corperateness which no other nation achieves In deference to tho fact that the English En-glish prefer to speak their own language tho hot jl keeper keen on attracting English En-glish custom engages Engllphspenklng employees The English come and pay take everything ns a matter of course convey to the other nations how much superior are the English hours ways games and above all that oven In his own country the foreigner la still the poor mikorablo foreigner Now the P M F naturally does not like any of this and I believe ho hates the games worst of all I remember once at a FrenCh watering placer a party were playing golf on some nowly laid out links A cltlxon of the district dis-trict walked across them and stopped In front of tho next holo In order to observe what the mad English were doing Tho golfera yelled to him In both languages to got out of the way but lie did not budge Ho felt he was on his native heath did not understand the excitement and wanted to see the end of It Finally thuS girl In a rage gave n tremendous drlvo Tile ball whizzed along and bounded unexpectedly into the amazed citizen Ho swore How he swore and danced It was Impossible that ho was hurt but It was the contumely of the thing that enraged him That a party of deaplcablo foreigners should dare treat a citizen of the most glorious country in the world In such a way to bombard him with their vile balls In his own country oh time soil of France 1 It took two hours of hard work to properly coothe him |