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Show HIS REASON FOR LOOKING GLUM. Sour Expression Kept Swede from Being Be-ing Bothered. Prince Wllhc-lm of Sweden told a New York reporter that Americans all worked hard and looked happy. "In my country," the prince went on, "we work hard, too, but we have not your happy look. Perhaps It Is the climate. cli-mate. At any rate, we tell a story in Sweden that Is tjplcal; a story that will give you some lda of our national na-tional expression, though not, I'm sure, of our national character. A Frenchman French-man visited a Swede in Stockholm, and one morning tho two friends set out for a walk. Suddenly the Frenchman French-man exclaJmed impatiently: 'You look as sour as a pickle. Why don't you smile? Why don't you have a pleasant, good-natured air when you are out of doors?' 'What!' growled the Swede. 'And have everybody stopping me for a match or asking me how to get somewhere?'" |