DANGEROUS VIVACITY.

Press, Volume LXIV, Issue 13104, 1 May 1908, Page 7

DANGEROUS VIVACITY.

M. Emile Beliamy, the aeroplane inventor, has aid the buoyancy appropriate to his calling and race (says the "Daily Exprtes ,, ). While walking through tiie \\«st End tho other arternoon he vivacaouisly remarked in French to a frieud, a" pretty girl tihat is in tiie motor-oar!" A nuui in tJie car happened to understand 1* it-noh, and objected to M. Bellamy's 1 avouruble criticism of Ms wife. When the inevitable poiicema.ii arrived, M. Uollainy was icaiiding with his'foot on the step of the car, and the owner was accusing him of intoxication. Accordingly the policeman took M. Bellamy mito custody, and, m spito otf his vigorous protects, the aeropjano invontior was forced into a coll at the police station by a number of constabicK. lUs companion explained that the whole affair arose owing to the national vivacity of Frenchmen, and that he was not really elevated. "We all understand tlie vivacity of frenchmen and admiro it," said Mr Plowden, the Magistrate. "An Englishman does not approach a trenchman in vivacity unless ho is under the influence of drink, and no doubt I tho conduct of M. Bellamy led those who saw him to conclude that he was intoxicated. I sfluould advise M. Bellamy to imitate the gloominess of the natives while he remams in tibis country. He is discharged."