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FRENCH LESSONS

One of my principal objects in coming over to
Paris was to improve my French. To *' pick up "
French was not, however, what I meant; I wanted
to improve the practical side of my knowledge of
the language in a systematic way. My next move,
therefore, after having secured my diggings, was to
obtain a suitable teacher. To find a teacher of
French in Paris—it sounds easy ; but it is not such
an easy job as it appears. It is something like
choosing one's wife ; there are so many girls, but
there are so few who are likely to suit you. The
best way perhaps is to get one by your friend's
recommendation ; but I was not placed in such a
fortunate position, so that I could not but rely upon
the advertisement columns of papers. I determined
to see all the teachers who advertised in Parisian