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Show True French" Politeness. Simon take, tho builder of submarines, returned recently from Paris, where he was much Impressed with French polite-1 ntss. "I congratulated a Frenchman one evening even-ing on tho good manners of his nation, and he was very much pleased," said Mr. Luke. "He told mo a'n anecdote illustra- j tlve of French politeness. "Ho said that during tho revolution a ncblo was on tho way to the guillotine. Ab ho rumbled In the cart along the boulevards bou-levards hovl3 and Jeers from a half-drunken half-drunken crowd wero rained upon him, and finally a yoving woman, as sho ran along beside tho tumbril, cried: "'You, tall villain! You will soon bo shorter by a head!' " 'Docs that please you, madam?' said tho doomed noble, civilly. " 'Yes, It docs.' she answered. " 'Then,' said he, 'I do not die In vain.' " |