New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1901-05-12
SHE COULD SPEAK 1T.

THE OLD MAMMY's FRENCH SUCCEEDED WHERE
oLLENDoRF FAILED
From The Washington Star
waxed mustachios (both hirsute appendages palpa.
bly, dyed and the unmistakable air and manner OK
Washington Circle the other afternoon. He had :
couple of heavy grips in his hands, SO that III MAS
car was filled The Frenchman deposited his two
grips in the aisle and made a grab for strap
track from the Circle and the Frenchman missed
M eqteh v f9r as ra aer1 and ba e 5 wry clearly
looking old nanny who had an old fashioned pam
loop earrings in her ears The Frenchman's silk
hat was knocked off his head and the top button
in the lap of the old black nanny. The passen-~
gers Uttered In recovering himself the -, dapPes
of the mammy's lap. and he looked for all the
old black woman that the laugh that went aroq ,h
the was more or less justihabe; AT length the
rp his silk hat. waved it gracefully at the old
nanny and murmured some words Of apology -,
black woman NO hahn done Abs done held
many bigger boy dan yo' all in dis heah oil lap
Then another and louder laugh went around
understood what the old nanny had said. for he
looked at her in a puzzled sort Of way: and then
discover the reason for the proongation of their
The passenger next to the old nanny left the
car at the War Department building. and the
into Fifteenth-st. he began to manifest consider
able uneasiness and beekoned 10 the conductor
conductor who REGARDED him with a bland grin.
The Frenchman wanted to get of the ear at the
Pennsylvania station. but he didn't know how to
express the matter in English, and the more he
grinned at him and shook his head
AT iength shy locking 5e young nan across the
dressed the Frenchman in his best article Of Ollen
man with a non-comprehending stare. Clearly the
young mans French must have been very Ollen-
l0rf f0fp he LODI STa E.aEd n
mans head only aroused the Young man across the
was listening bv this time and the Knowledge OF
this fact probably excited the young man a good
absolutely no meaning for the Frenchman Who Who
shook his head more ami more and sazed around
their expressions whether ne was being gIlved
@ren,orT Frencb osI - i, f Mn Iaa ,ns SOC 500 o.,
his seat with a whole lot of red in his face
fellow must talk ZulG-he certainly doesn't talk
Then the old black NANNY sitting next to the
dapper little FrenChman turned him and adj
- startled look in his face The old msmmv's
tr'nh was as pure as crys,al albeit, of course, in
piled 20 her Guestiars. while The man across
"-ar'uv told rhe Frenchman that she'd let him
Know whom The car reached the PENNSYLVANIA
gethNr ut Great rate 1t odd coIIoauv to
r,q-,,rv intcreete,1II, ss 81 aT,tt; ~ I;5 "k
~ 'Ia,Ic sneerh The parvelltns expression the
talked on with H. turhaned NANNY. He asked
nrr now II came thar she proficient
language. and she told him that she had baar
Shaking il from her birth-that she from New
''r!ttNS and was on visit 70 married daughter
IN washington The FrenChman babe her verv
gracious adIeu when SiXth-St reached ard
ralSed his rOD hat To her Sallantly The old
nanny with the good French at the tip of her
tongue got off AT Fourand- a-half-st. and then the
your. man who had volunteered his French TO helm
the Frenchman out grinned sheepishly at the man
newt ~ Rim. and remarked
Wei J. guess the old girl had ii me. that
/ wouldn't IA opened baZOO with nv high
school French for eight million dollars IN ia ha'
known that she could roll it out the way she did