Evening Republican, Volume 16, Number 31, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 5 February 1912 — AMUSING STORY BY MIZNER [ARTICLE]

AMUSING STORY BY MIZNER

Pick. Up Whet He (eppoud Wcc Young Lady’s Glove, but It .Was I - Her Bathing 8ult« ”- Addlson Mlsner, in an address on menticulture, said in Chicago: "Ours is a frivolous land, but it Is nothing like so frivolous a land as Belgium. I’ll never forget my first visit to the bathing beach at Ostende “On every side I saw young girls in boys' bathing suits—tight, flimsy, onepiece suits, sleeveless and skirtless. These young girls wore no stockings. As they sauntered to and fro on the white and sunlit beach, they looked —I frankly admit it—charming; but what a frivolous view of life, what a neglect of menticulture, their dress indicated." Mr. Mizner smiled. “A young lady, beautifully clad in a Poiret gown," he said, dropped something as she passed me on the Ostend sands. I picked It up and hurried after her. “‘Pardon, mademoiselle,’ I said In my best French, 'but you have dropped your glove.’ “She took the tiny object, and, smiling and blushing, she replied: " 'Mercl, monsieur; but this is not. my glove, it is my bathing suit.’ "