Los Angeles herald., 1906-08-20
AMERICAN GIRLS
WIN ALL FRANCE
PEACHES SENT BY AMERICAN
PAPER CREATE FURoRE
During Their stay Gallant France
Goes Daft over Them--Mayor's
Odd Scheme Gets Him
Into Trouble
BY Arthur w. L'Amoureux


PARIS, Aug. 19.-The American girls
sent here by newspapers in Kentucky,
ohio and California, and popuIarly
known as peaches" have come and
gone. Really they captured not only
Paris but all France One French
newspaper made canvass and discov-
cred that the members of the party had
already received over 1000 offers of mar
riage. 1t may be taken as indicative
of the good sense Of the average Amer
lean beauty or peach that up to the
present time none of these offers has
been accepted.
Some Of their sayings ought to be Of
interest to their sisterhood at home.
For instance, when accused, despite
their acknowledged beauty, OF dowdi-
ness, Miss Matte Kay Hughes. a state
ly Kentucky belle. retorted:
How can we help it2 We haven't
the time to even think of wearing
pretty things Most of us have even
ing frocks in our valises, but when we
have to cover two and even three towns
in one day how can we wear them"
Go Too Fast
Miss Osa Penny of Dayton, o., was
another young lady who objected to
the pace which kills sentiment
'I could sit down and cry" she said,
ito think of being in Shakespeare-land
with only half day to spare"
The champion picture postal card
sender was Mrs. Moore of Dayton. She
has a record Of having sent at least one
hunrded. a day to American friends.
One of the heroines was Miss Esther
M. Fletcher, who made the entire tour
practically on crutches. She happened
to have sustained severe sprain of one
of her ankles about the time her party
taA Tod 90 els
wouldn't miss it, that's ALL" she ex-
planned to party of admirers.
The journey through Holland, France,
Germany, Switzerland and Belgium
ended August Is Ooday).
Prince SulI<s
Prince Mouidong, the son King siso-
wath left behind to study at the st.
Maxient military school, is sulking be-
cause the commandant will not allow
him to wear the richly brocaded cos
tunes and jeweled hats he brought
from Cambodla. The prince has dozens
of magnificent garments, several opera
hats studded with diamonds, swords
with jeweled hilts, and the insignia of a
Cambodian general in review order.
These have all been relegated to the
school store rooms, and the prince has
been measured for an ordinary cadets
uniform, which does not at all suit his
ideas. He has been allowed to retain
his co1ored servant boys as orderlies,
however.
A very curious case has occurred at
Paris PLACE, near Boulogne-su Mer. A
lady who drew two buckets of water
from the sea in order to give her chill
dren warm sea-water BATH as ordered
by the doctor, was threatened with a
fine for doing so by two passing GUS
toms officers. She was obliged to. write
- .lk \
the water for, and obtain permission
from the authorities, before she was
allowed to take water from the sea- 1t
appears that in the reign of Louis XIV
a decree was passed fof,bidding people
to take sea water without special per-
mission lest they should extract the
salt from it and so defraud the revenue.
Mayors Odd Scheme
The mayor of Montirat, in the Tarn,
which both geographically and psyche
logically belongs to the Midi, has been
dismissed by the home office for over
zealousness in the cause of repopula-
ton. His zeal was only on paper. it is
true, but he did his best, and he evil
IDENTIFY meant for the best.
When the last census papers came in,
he thought he would not trouble the in
habitants of Montirat with them and
filed every one up himself, duly signing
each householder's name. While busy
at this self-imposed task he reflected
that France is threatened with depopu
lation. Thereupon he began adding to
each family boy here and a girl there,
and occasionally a pair of twins. BY
the time he had done the population Of
Montirat had increased by about 100
souls. 1t was only on paper. but 1t was
better than nothing. The government
has refrained from prosecuting the
mayor with southern Imagination for
forgery and has merely taken his office
from him.