Show artistic borrower an english visitor to new york tells the story of 0 an impecunious frenchman who was one of the most artistic borrowers of whom I 1 have heard lie ile would start the year s by borrowing a hundred francs of a friend A week later he would borrow two hundred francs of another friend and with that loan he would repay the first and still have a hundred francs left tor for the weeks expenses the third week he borrowed three hundred francs and repaid the man from whom he had borrowed the two hundred and so he went on by steady progression gres sion to the end of the year then he would begin all over again the man from whom tie be borrowed in the last week of the year of course would never get his money back but though the borrower had created ono ona enemy he had cemented I 1 the friendship of 51 persons during the year and established a credit on which ho he could run tor for the year following lie ile was a writer but he be seems to have had a goodba siness head 1 |