DANGEROUS VIVACITY.

Rangitikei Advocate and Manawatu Argus, Volume XXXIII, Issue 9136, 4 May 1908, Page 2

DANGEROUS VIVACITY.

M. Emile Bellamy, the aeroplane inventor, has all the buoyancy appropriate to his calling and race (says the Daily Express). While waiking.through the West End the other afternoon he vivaciously remarked in French to a friend, “What a pretty girl that is in the motor car!” A man in the car happened to understand French, aad objected to M. Bellamy’s favourable criticism of his wife. When the inevitable ‘policeman arrived, M. Bellamy was standing with his foot on the step of the car, owner was accusing him of intoxication. Accordingly the policeman took M. Bellamy into custody, and, in spite of his vigorous protests, _ the aeroplane inventor was forced into a cell at the police station by" a number of constables. His companion explained that the whole affair arose owing to the national gvivaoity of Frenchmen, and that he was not really elevated. “We all understand the vivacity of Frenchmen and admire it,’’ said Mr Plowden, the Magistrate. “An Englishman does not approach a Frenchman in vivacity unless he is under the influence of drink, and no doubt the .conduct of M. Bellamy led those who saw him to conclude that he was intoxicated. I should advise M. Bellamy to imitate the gloominess of the natives while he remains in this country. He is discharged.”