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INTIMATE WAR EXPERIENCES AND
OBSERVATIONS IOF
LOWELL MELLET
(United Press Staff Correspondent)
PARIS, Dec. 4.—It was shortly after
11 a. .in when I reached the office of
No. 1, the bureau for surveillance or
foreigners. The concierge explained
that everybody had gone to lunch at
11 and wouldn't be back until 2. It
was 12 when I reached No. 2, the pre
fecture of police, in the city. Every
body had gone to lunch. I went to
lunch.
No. 1, being prompt and business
like. had managed to get back to work
after the three-hour lunch period and
he put his stamp on my passport with
out further delay. No. 2 later did
likewise, and by 4:30 the last of the
three, the British consulate, had been
passed. The train left at 5 o'clock.
It couldn’t be done, since the ticket
had to be bought, none being sold with
out passports that satisfy the ticket
st' !er, end no taxi in Paris could cover
the remaining ground in half an hour.
I get out in the morning.
Saw the Latin Quarter of tradition
tonight. Wader knew a place. It is
called the Cafe Duret, and is located
at 8 Rue de Vaugirard.
Four great, husky women runHthe ,
place, and the romance of it is sup
nUn/1 k.. 1L .
*- lllo puipie past eacn is sup- .
posed to possess. They have managed ,
to preserve its atmosphere despite the
war and the long wall seats on each
side of the room were occupied by
joyous men and girls of the sort al- ,
ways described in stories of the Quar- ,
ter. The men, however, were in un
form for the most part; severe straight
coat collars made flowing ties impossi
ble, and military barbers had done ,
for the long hair that is supposed to
distinguish artists. j ‘
Also, it was a mighty fine dinner”"”
Round the corner was a cabaret.
\\ ader explained that Paris cabaret i
artists are mostly of the male per- '
suasion, and we passed it up. It does
seem that this is war work that might 1
be intrusted to the other sex.
playing the title role in “Poliche.” 1
His skillful comedy was a delight,
j Mile. Cecile Sorel, feminine star, is a '
: composite of Mrs. Fiske and Leslie 1
Carter, the latter contributing chiefly
red hair and emotional vibrations,
j Mile. Sorel’s clothes, which are said
to set the fashions in Paris, were 1
wonderful; but if Mrs. Flske lived in i
Paris I believe there’d be a readjust- <
ment of casts at the Comedie.
The famous promenade foyer was
dark, but the guests strolled about it,
dodging the marble statuary between
he acts. It formed a weird expert
mce.
Though it was the fashionable night,
ill men were in business clothes, or
omething distinctly not evening dress.
London's shining shirt fronts are taboo
lere for the period of the war. The
vomen likewise observed the rule
igainst elaborate theater toilettes. I
lad heard that this rule simply desig
nated the distance that a gown might
>e open at the throat and that one
esult had been to produce many mar
clous V-shaped backs. Apparently
here is nothing in that report.
HAVRE, Dec. 5.—Rode down to
lavre with Captain Bregna of the Ital
an military mission in London.
“The German invasion may prove
he salvation of Italy,” he declared.
'I don't believe anything could have
nnited the country as this invasion has
lone.”
The train was some time winding
nto the aged town of Rouen after the
ihurch spires of the city had long been
n view. I talked with a Rouen clti
;en and found him anxious to correct
>ne impression I’d brought from Paris.
“If you’ve been eating in Paris res
aurants,” he said, “please don’t think
hat is the way all France is living,
f it were it would be robbery for
France to accept food supplies from
Vmerica or anywhere else. Something
Might to be done about the extrava
;ance of Paris restaurautr It surelv
;ives American visitors the wrong
dea.”
He said his own townspeople, while
lot in actual want, seldom had an op
lortunity to forget the need for econ
imy.
“Of course,” he said, “France is in
letter position to take care of herself
n the matter of food than some other
lountries are—England, for instance,
i'here is practically no land going un
ised in France."
An Australian officer standing by
nterpollated a remark.
“There’s plenty of it going to waste
n England,” he declared. “I’m won
lering when they’ll ever get around to
rntting up some of those sacred old
istates that are no good for anything
mt hunting and golf.”
Strolled around Havre with Conger,
.vho in his Associated Press day’s
lelped Carl Ackerman and the kaiser
o keep Berlin in the public eye. He’s
m his way home to become a captain
ir a major or something.
We encountered Brand Whitlock,
ninister to Belgium, just departing
Irom a pleasant old house in an ob
scure street. The house proved to be
the temporary United States legation
to Belgium. •
Whitlock somehow doesn't look
much older than he did when mayor
of Toledo, and, for that matter, not
a great deal older than when secretary
to Governor Altgeld of Illinois. His
hair is quite gray, but there is still a
boyish light in his eyes and his smile
is the same slow, easy smile of old,
and his figure is as straight and slim
as that of a Kuppenhelmer hero. Still
I noticed when a bell at the gate rang
sharply he started as if from a phys
ical shock Belgium perhaps did not
leave his nerves unimpaired
Wanted to ask him what he thought.
Governor Altgeld’s attitude would have
been had he lived to see America's
present fight with his fatherland; but
Mrs. Whitlock appeared all gloved and
ready to escort him on the daily walk
which he said she enforced as a relief
from the considerable burden of his
work.
HIGH COST OF tiM
CM IIIOTOMILE
(By Associated Press)
EUREKA, Cal., Feb. 13.— l-aborers
living in the country districts in Hum
holrl t rmintv hmn nroion»n,i »„
board of supervisors that automobiles
have greatly increased the cost of liv
ing by driving the family cow from
the highways and byways, the driving
having been facilitated by a county
ordinance- prohibiting the grazing of
cows on public roadsides in any sec
tion, populous or otherwise. Citing
this condition, residents of the hamlet
of Blue Lake have asked that they
be given an opportunity to aid in food
production by once again pasturing
their Jerseys on the roadsides. They
have submitted a report showing that
before the automobile was made su
preme forty family cows were main
tained at Blue Lake. Today the num
ber has been reduced to twelve.
SPEED UPMESSENGERS
B! USING ROLIEB SHIES
(By Associated Press)
BILLINGS, Mont., Feb. 12.—Office
girls employed here by a transconti
nental telegraph company wear roller
skates in carrying the messages from
room to room.
“Use of roller skates by our check
girls has speeded up the distribution
of telegrams in our office from 200
to 200 per cent,” said Wire Chief E.
J. Townley. “At first it was difficult
for the girls to become used to the
6kates, but now they move about the
floor with ease and with far less ex
ertion than when they walked.”
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