Show AN UNKIND KINDNESS respect for foreigner s feelings re elings led him to make ludicrous blunder politeness has never been counted the national virtue but an italian no bleman attached to his country s em bassy in washington would make one of its manifestations a national fault the count ha een in america long enough to have bost with some of his accent all sensitiveness about his early difficulties with the language he tells this story of mistaken amer lean kindness on himself one of my greatest difficulties in learning english he said was the politeness of my american friends in ignoring my what ou call breaks at first my words were not always to casy on ibe spot yet I 1 was allowed to say mav words that were wrong till the time came when a laugh could not be stopped once at newport my hostess took me to drive bellevue avenue was and he horses were m cent I 1 wanted to te my admiration of the high stepping horses but could not think of the word madam I 1 said what should I 1 call this and I 1 laid my hand on my knee trousers she replied ah now I 1 can say my thought said I 1 the american horses swing their trousers magnificently high madam did not move an eyela sh I 1 will remember I 1 said to myself trousers trousers next day the guests of madam were taken to a picnic on the rocks by the sea the hostess as carving a small fowl what part may I 1 cut for you she said all I 1 could remember of the body was the word I 1 had learned on the drive the day before the trousers it you please madam I 1 said with promptness for a moment there was silence then one of the young ladies burst out to laugh then everybody and there were afterward many apologies to my embarrassment now would it not have kindness if madam had corro tedi my firs mi stake |