Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1913-06-22
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THERE is a cafe in Paris on the Place de rOpera,
where Cook tourists and what are known as the
"onetrippers" congregate fondly imagining that they
seeing all of France from its curb viewing the
highest excellence of French art in its garsh tawdry
bedizened rooms; place that an artist who wrote
audlin novel, said the center of the universe and
that "if you wanted to meet a man etc. Once an
American plain, unCultured, and crude tell into that
cafe one balmy afternoon when tired of looking at pic
ture galleries, and ordered soothing drink of that
strong mans liquor. His wife was with him, and she
attractive At the next table were seated three
French bOuevardIerS.
They winked and oged they admired by languishing
looks across the edges of absnthe glasses, until the
plain, crude American swore softly and glared harshy
back. Now this man was not rough and tumble
fighter. He had not been educated in Arizona; SO he
confined himself to his coffee and hurried his attractive
wife away But one of the Frenchmen evidently had
a speaking acquaintance with someone in the place
who knew them, or-Heaven knows how he learned the
woman's Being citizen of cultured city, he
promptly wrote her note in exquisite French asking
her if she could not "shed her husband for evening
and dine with him? He politely told her that husbands
always de ob; otherwise he would have invited
her husband also. And also he expressed undying
affection and admiration for so beautiful as the
charming, transcendent American lady who had vouch
safed him neither word nor look
The American took the letter to friend of his to
translate and the latter could only advise him to drop
the whole matter, tourists were always liable to
detention they resented such polite intrusions
Three years ago there an American woman living
in the Latin Quarter who had been spoken to by a
gentleman every time she went into the street tor
than month 1t cost her ten francs to slap his
face with soggy umbrella one fine morning, and the
judge regretted that she uncultured to resent
the perfectly proper approaches OF a gentleman
BAVARIA is supposed to be less irnpolite than North
ern Germany, and everyone knows that there IS no
brazen blackguard more ostentatOus, more swag
gering clumsy and big footed, than the Berlin
Don Juan But this story is first about incident
that occurred in Munchen.
One of the most thickly populated junction points in
that delightful village OdeOnS Platz where lines
from two directions center young American woman
1pypXy mar 1a6 wife M
this center of art left her husband tong his paints
one day and went down to the business center to do
some shopping. She had never been abroad until then
and she fooled. She thought the gentle Bavarl
ans the gentle Poughkeepsie. She didn't
know that it scarcely advisable for pretty
she venture the streets OF the most cultured
city in Europe without bulldog, brace of hatplns
and automatic pistol unless she took male escort
She had studied German in her local seminary, and
taken her instruction books when she abroad but
she was unsophistcated in tongue and custom.
AT the OdeOns Platz street station she waited tor her
to take her up Leopoldstrasse man with splen
did mustache and immaculate German clothing
rounded off at the shoulders and with trouser leg
inch shorter than the other with boots that would have
done for Mississippi River scows, and eyeglass in
imitation of Englishman he had SEEM addressed
her She thought she had not understood his question:
because her German yet stiff. She thought perhaps
he asked question to direction; she sad "What?
$50 much the better! love Americans. Where do
you ve?'
She turned her shoulder on him. He was "chvalric
gentleman; so he insisted
Il luf you'll he articulated eying her from the top of
her plume the of her boots Il could expire for
you! We will go to the theater."
She was dismayed, and tried to rebuff him aIf
wante1 go to the theater' she said coldy "my hus
band would take me-"
"Ab but Gnddge Frau" he replied, "can you not get
from him away for one evening" insist am high
born Herr
The interrupted his protestations and she has
tened to leap into it, panic He followed her inside
She compelled to take double seat the only
vacant, and he promptly planted himself beside her.
She crowded past him and went to the platform. He