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STREETS OF PARIS AT ARMISTICE SIGN1NC (Continued From Page Two) er found one yet that was satisfiei with even a generous "pourboir" (tip). The first thing I saw when got there was some French soldier (and I had particularly noticed tha they were French) turning over ai empty taxi. The next one that canv along had a "fare" in it so they con tented themselves by rocking it era die fashion. Outside of breaking al the springs, they didn't do any harm Pretty soon the Americans got th habit. It was a gentle hint to th taxicab drivers that the people want ed the streets that night for them selves. The drivers weren't slow t take the hint after such treatment In one case I saw the driver was i little more determined to carry hi tare 10 ms destination, ana triea i' move forward. French taxis yoi know have only a two-cylinder engin and only high and low gears. Th . soldiers held him and even pulled hin backward while a French soldier am an American soldier and a couple o Italian soldiers walked up the radia tor, calmly seated themselves on to] and leisurely lighted cigarettes, muc] , to the amusement of the onlookers About this time a battery of horse drawn French artillery came along Whether they were out to parade o whether they were out changing sta tions I don't know, but I do kno\ that if there was a single place lef uu nurse, gun carriage or uaisuj where a human being could fim even a hand hold, I failed to see il This outfit created the biggest sen sation with the most cheering an< clapping that I heard during th whole night. If you didn't want to be carried a long with the tide you had to hold oi to something and the next thing knew we were on our way to th Madeleine. About half way dowi we came to a wide place in the roa< fiwnpniwpiwwuiwnpii fuiK ill yuy ji To be hel ji been subdivi I MO Al [i TERMS: E! iiifori in ntfpi IIIM I; Lium I ROME, Bffirirn'fi'rrn'fi'n'fi'frn'i r in front of the Grande Cafe where ; the Rue Scribe comes into the Boulevarde des Capucines we found a large congregation industriously , dancing to the alluring tunes of a ... . ? Jmni TViq Annnricnn SmiR-l ,, IC U1 Uii: 1UV 4V?.. ?w | . licv tenant a?nl his lgrec Em Say Ah (Y) girl were as much in evidence ? as tOie demobilized "Apache" and his 'Connaissance" and the doughboy [T j * , and his pretty "Midinette". And say, cara mia, that bunch was certainly having a good. time. ,1 Here I lost the others and amused t. myself watching a crowd having a q perfectly glorious time. With as e much glee as a crowd of small boys i- they were throwing wooden paving . blocks under all the machines that o passed by just to see them bump. American, French and English trucks) a however, were left entirely alone, i s Probably because they were loaded! o to the guards. Every one whoj n wanted to and could find a place to. e hang on did so. Some of those trucks! - hod o hiorcror "Hvp lnfld" than the de-! c, _ n signers ever figured on and it's real-; i ly a woner some of them didn't smash.) f I joined hands with some merry-! - makers and started back towards the p Opera. If we met others coming in h the opposite direction neither would' give way with the result that there j - would be a mixup and all the girls in; the party got themselves hugged andj r kissed of course. That is unless J - they were awfully pretty, but kissed: v after the French fashion of touching! t cheeks alternately. And right now! n let me tell you something. When you, d people hold up your hands in holy: horror when you read of some French - general kissing a soldier that he has) i just decorated, please remember that! e this is the way they do it. It's a' great deal more sanitary than our! - kissing and a lots nicer than the Aus-j i tralian native custom of rubbing' I noses. I am not in a position to speak' e from the point of an expert in this! i latter form of amusement, but I ' I? j leave it to your own judgement. cu=aaciginnnnniraricw:i ruuruuiiirMuuuuuMbuii WILL Bl I A JU dS~i d at Lethe, three i ded into small fa isinA IGUS' One-third Cash; I 1-1 n i id tne Daroecue o PKIN FiHwwpiwi-innnnffHni nanonannnnnnnrro You know that I told you once that I liked it over here because an old bachelor was more popular here. I am more than ever convinced that I was right about it. A .e^l pretty' thing danced .-.p to me ^ayin.u': "Ih, i rsion net.it c ihaine. cmbraSL.-mci. embrasse-moi". Think of that, sister dear, being called "my little captain" and then asking me right out1 plain to hug her. Of course you. know, Polly, I'd never think of refus-j ing such a charming request. I wasn't! quick enough though and she waS| gone, laughing over her shoulder and covering me with a handful of confetti. Further on up the street I found the Georgia lieutenant and a girl who were struggling along with a "Follies Bergere" sign. They went along with me and a few minutes further on we found the Indianapolis Engineer Cantain dancine dow nthe mid die of the steet with a jane. Someone suggested another beer to 'cele? brate our reunion so we dropped into a cafe. The cafes here close at 11:30 and . it was already 11:00. We thought that surely they would keep open late that night above all nights but not so. They turned out the lights promptly at 11:30. Not, however, before we had a chance to rest a while and quench our thirst. While we were resting one of those "handsall-around" danced in and circled the cafe and danced out again. When we got out in the street we discovered a dance going on; we joined in of course. The music consisted of a clarionette and a drum, bu\ that didn't matter to anyone. The only trouble was that we had to stop every now and then to let an overcrowded truck through. The taxis had long decided that it was best for them to keep off the crowded streets. The Georgia Engineer lieutenant's girl, who said her name was Yvonne and that she was a dancer at the Casino de Paris, complained that her feet were tired. The lieutenant sug5 SERVED TO LND miles from Willi rms and will be Y' 1 r M talance in one an >n this Bargain L ?BRASS iALE CONE RFAI 11U11JL MiEfiuafitrarannniann gested that we carry her. So we put her up on our shoulders between U3 and held her hands to keep her from falling. Everybody smiled at this? nd ;;he wasn't a bit heavy. The '.iad swapped hi-, garrison :ap J.ur her broad-brimmed white silk affaire and I guess we did present a rather odd appearance. The lieutenant amused the crowd by saying: "Look fellows, this is what we came over to fight for". In a few minutes we found ourselves at the head of a wild parade. I promised not to tell about the lieutenant swiping a twenty-franc note which he somehowj found on the girl. Anyway h* swears he put it back. We nearly got run over. Some fellows had a French ''75" dragging it around the streets. They got it started down a slight incline in the street and it got away from them and smashed into a lamp post. It hit with h pretty good bang and broke the post up near the top, the lamp falling to the street with a crash. We hurried Qway because we did'not want to be called as witnesses. That instance ?.nd the rocking the taxis were the only acts of destruction I saw during the whole night. I -forgot to tell you that we had quite a little party by this time. A sailor and his girl and a Chicago private and his girl had attached themselves f.r? nnr nart.v. Thirurs were be ginning to quiet down and people were going home. We passed a crowd of French soldiers and the lieutenant's girl shouted "Vive 1'Amerique" at them. One of them replied in slow and laboriously enunciated English "Go, to hell". Mademoiselle Yvonne was terribly worried about it and said it wasn't a bit nice of them but they were awfully peeved and jealous because the Americans had taken all of their girls away from them. Honestly though, Polly dear, there's some truth in what she said. We had an afterdinner speech here at the hotel recently by the isiaiamfajafEfgraiiifErafiUi!. ALL WHO A SAI Ington. The Tei sold at auction t id two years, 8 \ )ay for Land Bu BAND? UCTED BY TV f 111 I \ French Director General of Educa- s tion who accompanied General Joffre 1 to the United States and in summing 2 up what the French thought of the. t Americans after having told us what s v..- chink of the French that was the I vdy fir.;; thing (he said that the ! French had against us?taking their 1 sweethearts away from them. . Yes, I t guess there's something in it because c the papers this morning said that the < Y. W. C. A. was preparing to care g for the ten thousand French wives 1 of soldiers still over here. ' 1 ft But let me tell you one thing be- t fnro T finish A verv conservative ^ estimate would place that night's crowd at at least a million people on ' that one main street alone. With 1 cafes running wide open until eleven- ^ thirty I didn't see one single solitary * instance of drunkenness. Every one * 7.*as having too good a time to think ; about getting soused and why worry 1 about it there would be plenty there ' the next day. There's a lot of food s for thought in that statement. The Chicago private's girl was very 1 amusing. She kept the crowd laugh- 1 ing recounting her experiences. She J had just gotten out of jail. She said 1 they arrested her for asking a soldier ' for a cigarette on the street after ' eleven o'clock. They let her out the 1 next morning when she told them ' that was really all she had said to 1 him. Smokes of any kind are still 1 (*aa?aa Aval* linra on/1 f V? a ori T*1 G roallv ^ ovaiwc u ? bi nwiv u?iu w**v w do make a habit of stopping you and 1 asking for cigarettes. Fact is that it is getting to be a nuisance because ' you don't know whether they really 1 need a cigarette or whether they are simply collecting a week's supply. Of ! course no one objects to sharing his 1 last cigarette, even, with a person ( who really needs a smoke, but when ; you only have two left and have a 1 mile,to walk, and no chance of getting any more until morning you rather object to being asked for both of them. But I decided I'd had enough and t BBfiBBBBIgBBBBBB I . i - ) TTEND JE nnant Place of 6c o settle the Gibert n oegimi at 10 O'cl. Percent, interest. yers. i :ompj GE< HfififiBafifasaaafim tarted for home. I thought just for uck I would count the times I was isked for cigarettes., I had about wo miles to walk. By this time the streets were pretty well deserted. Down in front of the offices of "Le tfaii.n", one of the largsst daily pa )ers here there was a large crowd siting around looking like the last rose >f summer. I asked a man the >ccasion for the sad, sleepy looking gathering. "Oh", he said, "we've )een dancing and the music has just eft." I laughed and went on beting to myself that they were waiting :or the subways to start running. Crossing the Place de la Concorde i girl stopped me and asked me for i cigarette. I told her in my best French that I had no cigarettes and ?or that matter not even a match and ;hat if she wanted to be real nice ;he could give me a cigarette and a *. natch. She dug down in her satchel md got out a couple and we lit up and ;at down on a captured cannon and iiscussed the night. She was waitng to go to work, not considering it arorth while to go home and go to sleep, and I wasn't in a hurry. She vas the eighth person who had asked i ciearette. She said that it had seen much better the night the armis;ice was signed, because the revelry - ' iad started at eleven o'clock in the ' norning, whereas, that night no one thought anything was really going to happen at all and that they hadn't gotten started until after seven. So, Caris9ima, I've told you all about it. It wasn't so shocking after ill, was it? This has been along letter and should make up for my. sins of omission. Write me whenever you have - ' the time. Always glad to hear from pou. Send this letter over to mother ind tell her I will write soon. > Your affectionate brother, William. . Engraved cards and wedding invi;ations at Press and Banner Co. ' - / jnraiimuiiiiuanmafiiiM ! r r I r ? ' Lt I 16 acres has | j Estate, on j j ing |! ock | All are in- 1 ? ? 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