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Show BOOK SALESMAN FLOORED. Massachusetts Woman renounce OrownlnshUId as ftatns! ad Kan Kearly Faint. "I have always rather prided mywlf on the accuracy of my pronunciation," said a salesman In a Chicago book stora to an Inter Ocean reporter, "but a woman from Massachusetts who cam in yesterday yes-terday floored me flat tjhe said she wanted a book the name of which she had forgotten, hut It was about an American Amer-ican who visited some people at a French chateau. Thfs didn't frtve me any definite de-finite Idea at what boojc he wanted, " 'You must hare It, s'be said. It's by a very prominent Washington woman. Her husband Is in the navy. Her name la Qrunsel, Mrs. OniBsel. "I could not for the lfe of me.resallany Washington lady named Grunsel, to I asked the lady to write the name down and give me time to look It up. What on earth do you think she wrote ?v Why. Croanlnshleld. She told me, too, that It's an old Marblehead name, and that nobody up there ever calls Crowntnsbleld anything but Qrunsel." |