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Show oo : READ 'EM AND LAUGH When Isadoro Finkelstcin and Antonio An-tonio Garibaldi meet In an American schoolroom, great is tho opportunity i for huruor. There are countless 'stories of tho difficulties of alien children chil-dren to accommodate themselves to jour language, of which two. stand out as classics. The first concerns Isadore. Tho; teacher had asked tho class to use tliC word "Income" in a sentence and recognize rec-ognize the eagerly-waving hand of Isadore, Isa-dore, who proclaimed proudly: "I opened the door and In como tho cat." Presently, another word, "disarrange," "disar-range," was to bo used. Antonio volunteered vol-unteered this: "In da mornin' my.fadda ho lightu dn fire. It smoke and he say: 'Danfiha dis a range.' " And while we aro about it, can we fail to remember tho foreigner who filled out his questlonaire liko this: "Born: Yes." "Business: Rotten." oo |