PARISIAN POLITENESS
Not even truffle jams can take the romaneo out of life in Pans. One sunny afternoon not long ago (relates the correspondent in that city of the "Christian Science Monitor), a certain boulevard was crowded from kerb to kerb with parallel streams of motorcars, moving, oh, so slowly. In two ad joining files were to bo : seen two vei'V smart coupes, one driven by a meticulously dressed and smiling young man, the other by a fashionable young lady. Both cars were the last word in elegance, tastefully upholstered, and with little vases of flowers in brackets beside the windows. First one would go ahead, then the other, but a dense traffic prevented any sustained speed, and kept them nearly abreast. At long last a way opened up ahead of the gentleman's car, but milady remained closely shut in between (ho car which preceded her and the one which followed. Monsieur doffed his hat apologetically, tossed a flower into tho chariot of Madame, and sped away.
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Evening Post, Volume CXI, Issue 41, 18 February 1931, Page 5
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167PARISIAN POLITENESS Evening Post, Volume CXI, Issue 41, 18 February 1931, Page 5
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