OCR Text |
Show SYSTEM DID NOT WORK WELL Englishwoman Found Some Disadvantages Disadvan-tages in Giving Instructions in the Sign Language. An Kiifjlisli lady was tsi 1 k iiifr about her cU'viTiipss in cttiiif: a Itussiiui sprviinl. "Slip can't speak a word of 10rif;ii.sli, and I can't speak llussian," Blio linlslicri. ' " I ! v. 1 1 liow do you nian-hko, nian-hko, then?" asked her friend. "Oh, It's quite simple. I Just wave my hands ahont and make faces, and if she doesn't qtillp understand, she goes off anil does something else, so all Hie work gels done in time." Later on I lie friend called, hoping to catch n glimpse of the Russian treasure, and found the mistress in tears. "That dreadful liolshevik" she wailed. "She came up to ask what she was to do next, and I made scrubbing motions, mo-tions, meaning the kitchen floor, of - course, and she did it on my lovely polished dining table instead, and it Is absolutely ruined! And now she's Milking In the kitchen, smoking nry clgareltes, and I can't make her un-stand un-stand that she's not to take them!" |