Salt Lake Telegram | 1902-02-05 | Page 4 | Not Quite What She Meant

NOT QUITE WHAT SHE MEANT The pitfalls which the English language Ian lan guage offers to the foreigners are many A French woman who has undertaken housekeeping in New York thought she had a good working knowledge of ot th the language says Short Stories but but buth h hn n discovered her mistake One day last a summer she called a carpenter and planned with him hit to have some work done about the house In the 4 way of putting up shelves casing sot some I 1 doors and improving the place in other small ways She went over the ground with him as carefully as possible to get from him Im an estimate of what the work I would cost After It was done the bill submitted was considerably ly in excess of ot the sum first named The woman endeavored to remonstrate but succeeded only in put ting her French thought into the following fol foN lowing English But you are more mora dear to me than when we were first en en 1 G lobe Globe t. t