SMILES IN ENGLISH
Some years ago, Dr. John O. Riedl, dean of the Marquette University graduate school, was working for the American State Department in Germany, and was living with his wife and children in Freiburg. They lived amid a sort of international set over there, and one day their Rosie, who was five then, came into the house and said she would like to play with the little French boy who had moved next door. Rosie couldn’t speak French, and the French boy couldn’t speak English, nor could he speak German, which Rosie also spoke. “Then how are you going to play?” Mrs. Riedl wanted to know. “Oh, we can,” said Rosie earnestly, “because he smiles in English.”
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