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Show iilEI M 'Oh, My Pretty Potato' Is Admiring Term on Argentine Streets BUENC-S AIRES. Jan 7. i By the Associated Press.) The ever-recurring question whether women of Anglo-Saxon Anglo-Saxon blood sojourning in "'Argentina should take offense at he remarks freely addressed to them In the streets by Argentine men has flared up again, this time In a lively controversy of letter writers to the Buenos Aires Herald. Her-ald. "Dear Little Bean " and "Oh, my prettey potato. ! are some of the ex-clamaations ex-clamaations to which objection is taken tak-en when addressed to women by strangers in the streets- The Spanish words for "bean" and potato" aro used in Argentina much the same as are "peach" and "chicken' In America, and the attractive young woman who ventures ino the streets of Buenos Aires unescorted seldom frills to hear herself addressed in tin s terms by passing men. The majority of the Herald's cor-rfspondt cor-rfspondt run mans of whom are women, wo-men, protest against tins custom, declaring de-claring that it ehpws lack of respect for women, and that, furthermore, tho remarks aro not always as Innocuous as the ones quoted, others, however, maintain that the men do not Intend ' to be disrespectful, but merely complimentary- Argentine women accept ac-cept remarks as compliments, they point out. although ignoring the men who make them. indeed, the story Is told that the daughters of an Argentine family, noted not-ed for their beau.y, complained on re- turning from a visit to New ork that American men were all rude not one. had remarked on their good looks on the streets. |