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Show s Delicacy of Frenchmen. . "Undoubtedly Frenchmen have the most dellcnto wny of oxprcsslng them-bo1vo9,j' them-bo1vo9,j' said a Now York young woman to & group of frlonds at tea. "t have just had the oddest Uttlo encounter en-counter with a man who fooked ns If ho had Just arrived bore, his clothes wcro so unmlstabably Parisian. I was walking In Broadway when I snw him coming. To my surprise, as he was a stranger to me, he stopped, put dils heels togu'ther and, taking o.f his bat, 'mndc'a low bow. 'Pardon, mademoiselle,' mademoi-selle,' slid ho, 'your beneath skirt descends.' de-scends.' Making again the same elaborate elab-orate liow, lie passed on. I looked down n'nd saw that my silk petticoat was showing Just u llttlo below the outside skirt. Had an American mar. noticed fir he would have felt crmbnr-rnssmcut crmbnr-rnssmcut Mjout mentioning lt:or, If he had the courage, he never would have been able to think of such a delicate way of making that bit of a j mlstlt known to me." |