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Show Delicacy of Frenchmen. "Undoubtedly Frenchmen have the most delicate wny of expressing thorn-selves," thorn-selves," said n" Now York- young woman to a group of friends nt toa. "1 have Just had tho oddest llttlo encounter en-counter with a man who looked no if ho had just nrrlvnd here, his clothes wero so ituml3tnbably Parisian. I was walking In Ilroadway when I saw hlru coming. To my nurprlno, ns he was a stranger to mo, ho stopped, put his I1P0I3 togother nnd, taking off his lint, tnndo a low bow, 'Pardon, mademoiselle,' mademoi-selle,' Bid ho, 'your beneath skirt descends,' de-scends,' Making again tho same elaborate elab-orate bow, ho passed on. I looked down and saw that my silk petticoat wns showing Just 11 llttlo below tho outsldo skirt. Had an American man noticed it, lie would have folt embarrassment embar-rassment about mentioning It; or, it ho had tho courage ho nover would linvo been nblo to think of such n I dellcnto wny of making that bit of a mlsllt known to me." |