RANDOM REMINDER

Press, Volume CXIV, Issue 33532, 13 May 1974, Page 17

RANDOM REMINDER

LARGESSE The next person to say it's a small world will get a thick ear. It’s enormous, and bulging with people who keep meeting each other in unexpected places and saying that its a small world. Like our friend Paul, - who travelled extensively " last year, country after country, and would up in • Paris. There to run most . unexpectedly, across his friend John, who had also • been just about everywhere before Fran.’, - They agreed to meet in - London. And there, Paul : called for John one morning. He was nearly ready

for their outing, but he was running late. Because he had spent a considerable time trying to cheer up the room maid — a little lass lonely and homesick because she was only six days away from her family in the Phillipines. Paul noted that on a table John had an enormous amount of silver-coins he had been left with in place after place, because of the miserable international habit of exchanging only notes in a new country. They went out and returned early in the evening. John mentioned that he could not see his

heap of coins, but concluded he had tossed them in a bag in his morning rush of departure. Much later that evening he found out what had happened to them. He discovered a note from the room maid . . .“Many thanks for your kindness of this morning and the coins you left me.” Could John break the girl’s heart? Could he let her think New Zealanders were not really cavaliers? Could he smilingly dispense with about $4O worth of change? He’d let you know, for $39, or near offer.