Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 39, Number 37, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 11 January 1907 — Delicacy of Frenchmen [ARTICLE]

Delicacy of Frenchmen

Undoubtedly Frenchmen have tlie most Tlellcate way of expressing themselves,” said a New York young woman to a group of friends at tea. “I have just had the oddest little encounter with a man wfio looked as If he had just arrived here, his clo.thes were so unmistakably Parisian. I was. walking in Broadway when I saw him coming. To my surprise, as he was a stranger to me, he stopped, put his heels together and, taking off his hat, made a low bow-. ‘Pardon, mademoiselle,’ saifl he, ‘your beneath skirt ’descends.’ Making again the same elaborate bow, he passed on. I looked do,wn and saw that my silk petticoat was showing just a little below the outside skirt. Had an American man noticed it, he would have felt embarrassment about mentioning it; or, if he had the courage, he never would have been able to think of such a delicate way of making that bit oT a misfit known to me.” —New York Press.