Show MUST BE POLITE TO POLICE visitor to montevideo finds it feces sary ary to take off his hat when addressing patrolman the policemen of montevideo are mostly of indian origin they are at al was waja courteous and polite but the are great sticklers klers for etiquette through ignorance of their customs a foreigner sometimes finds himself in an embarrassing situation one day last summer a well dressed american stepped up to a policemen in the plaza and said in very good spanish will you please tell me ma where the calla rincon la Is the policeman looked haughtily at the stranger and turned away the american tried again with still more courtesy would you be so extremely kind as to very accommodatingly tell tall me ma where the calla rincon Is IB to his aston tho the policeman retorted you have no manners mannera air needless to say the american was quite abashed but he had bad to find the calla rincon so he put the question to a spanish youth who was standing near the youth answered very cor car bially and went some little distance to direct the stranger properly after the american hid had thanked him he taked why did the policeman refuse to anstr me because replied the 3 auth when you addressed him ou neglected to take off your bat youths youth s compan ton ion |