Advice to Americans

Le Gaulois, Paris Journal, printed a code of behavior for the benefit of U. S. citizens visiting France. It might well have been headed What Every American Should Know. The satirical tone of the " advice" tendered is the result of the recent Negro excitements (TIME, July 9, Aug. 13, Aug. 20). The code is in part:

" The French are so proud they spend their time deprecating themselves in order to give you an opportunity to contradict them. Don't fail to do so.

" Don't think Montmartre is a rendezvous of the French. When they go there it is to meet foreigners.

" Remember, in France it is only the French who do not amuse them selves.

" Be as well behaved with a Frenchwoman as you would with one of your own countrywomen. Flirtation is not encouragement to rudeness.

" Drink as much as you can; not as much as you want. Drunkenness is not elegant here.

" Don't do in France what you wouldn't dare do in your own country.

" Don't imagine you are made of better stuff because you have money. You will only be respectfully laughed at.

" In France what counts most is what counts least in your own country.

" It is not necessary to go to the Chamber of Deputies; you have worse at home.

" When you see foreigners ridiculed on the stage don't be angry. Think of all the impersonators of Frenchmen on your stage at home."