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Show AMHBICAK8 IN STOOFB. Mrs. Hamilton Paine the Duchsssa de Choiseul-Praslin gives br her misadventure mis-adventure with Count d'Aulby another proof of the inability of Americans to grapple with European Yite. " ""The wpeskei) 4 4tuitt sJaeeiGfr"-la Tour Blanche, waa praising, ia New York, the honesty of America. "You are. for all the talc about vour politics,' and corporate corruption, corrup-tion, he said, "the moat honest and honorable people is tha world. It ia to vour credit, not to your discredit, thai adventurers so often dupe you in Europe. It isn't because your minds are stupid that you are duped. It ia because vour minds are nobis too noble no-ble to believe such mean, small creatures crea-tures aa European adventurers eaa exist. ex-ist. "That was a typical adventurer who, meeting an American millionaires in Paris, congratulated bar upon her good fortune in making bis acquaintance. "'You know,' he said, 'I always pick my friends. "But this lady, who was up to snuff, retorted: " 'As you would a chicken, eh, mar-'quist' mar-'quist' "New York Times. |