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Show VIENNA'S WAY WITH WOMEN Georgian Who Did Not Understand and Resented It Was Forced to Leave the City. "Vienna is no place for an American to go with his wife," said a man who has just got back from spending part of his honeymoon in the Austrian capital, cap-ital, according to the New York Times. "My own experience was embarrassing, em-barrassing, but that of a Georgian who was there during the summer was humiliating. "I was told that it was considered .good form for a man to offer to buy a drink for any woman he met on the street unescorted. If she repelled his advances he apologized and walked away, and both wera supposed to forget for-get the incident. "The wife of the Georgian was out alone one day when an officer, with a smile, bowed to her and invited her into a near by cafe. She was Indignant Indig-nant and ordered him away. He bowed bow-ed again and went. "Later in the day the woman was out walking with her husband. She had told him about the incident of the morning and he was feeling like almost al-most any southerner would feel If a strange man had accosted his wife. The same officer passed them and the . - : i woman drew her husband's attention to him. That was enough for the Georgian. He sprang after the other. " 'What do you mean by insulting my wife?' he demanded, with other words which some might consider appropriate appropri-ate to such an occasion. Then he hauled off and knocked the officer down. "When the Georgian and his wife reached their hotel at dinner time two officers were there with orders that the trunks of the Americans should be packed and that they be escorted to the next train leaving for another country. The Georgian protested, but the others insisted, and they escorted him and his wife to the train and saw that they left on it." |