The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1906-07-29
.LI)NGWl(1R7'HS IN
FRENCH CAPITAL
Daughter 81 President Has Dropped Many y abits
Since Being Abroad wing iii ~
Grand Stand. 8s88Ss
Grand
BY Edith Brownell.

Grand
IN BY Edith Brownell. 85l8
4S5l (specinlS Cor. Of Tines spatch)
PARIS, July 11.--ts,i't 1t Mi. r. Hop
kinson Smith who tells ~ story ulustrat-
ing how extremely clover one gets to be
4 & reading his fellow passengers after
travelling {hrouiid Il bit7 ] think It Is one
1of his inouthpieces who describcs a party
with whom he once jotrrneyeti.t and whom
wltl, this particular brand Of skill, he
Judged to lie a circus troupe. Every
thing about the party pointed to this
conclusion, and he was somewhat crest
fallen to fltlt1 MT tho end OF the Journey
mat hc md really been trav ,tlll WIZ,
2rhelr Grnces the Duke ana md SA'uci'ess =
JVsSahad a similar, II a somewhat tni y ma
i,ncel,erI experience coming up from DEP
4 n,.S7 "a paris. 81 we were especially keen l
"a obssryc the French type, In contr ray
WITH tlc German which VIC mad JUST
left. and being on the lookout for ~ we're
decidedly plensed to discover tina 81 ~! "
sa.r,o compartment with us ware g aa a,..
littio Frefclwornali hdTpre.s' Y. =. ~ 8,
nor husband # Sho was 4. trul y lc ~
tyhc,m rs Francis Wilson used \ to say. !.
chic smart, swclt md all the rest re: OF o.
tha Frcnchiness customary. wilt Il mar
eel enduation"8i shor hair, n aaucy 1T
ia n int tipped over one We NJ a. nd n clpo "
l8lenEth gloves Tho husband wa u cyl !, I
IDENTIFY ,bourg and dark Win WI !;
d rampant mustncho. They seemed SUI ~ !.
Ion and out OF tempe a trl fle. ana 81 't}.
sientsdnring the. ride, while we won 2 !
dered whether 1t was only the Engl!s:,hn
Channel which was to. blame, or, i this this
was d fair example OF tho French type
jSof wedded bliss N Then Wo drew IN at
1.-the Care tlli Nord. and our III tie french
woman spoke scornfuly ts35B,
!" Goodnllss! Is this Il Pnrrrss ? AZ Why
5olir $ ia tlon to Saint Lolilss beats thlsBall
5hollal ~ IA & u .{
we Il sought our luggage In sheepish3
silence, not looking Mt each other, but
presently heard tho boon companion
|3mi,rmurs In disgust: 3 sIS 81, sE
llsis not French that Is .,narcelled n
" Full Of Americans.
Indeed wc have found 4 difficult some !,
times On the Paris streets to distin-
puisl1 between the genuine article and
our own fair countryw omen. 'To; begin
with, Paris Is literally resounding with
4 mer lea ns. III and for55tlle most part ex-l
ceedinRly we1l-drcssed Americans, too
whether they get Fronch toggery md y
wea n It around Paris, In order to- get the
proper swing OF It'll before N going home ONE
again, we have Il not been ablo to find III
out. but they nll seem to fall in line u IN
anS'nmnzIng fashion All Americans Of
course, have learned to beware Of tho
shops announcing outside that Eng isll8 10
spoken. s t Is almost n $wri ten guarantee
nov that one may w thin have the priv
ilege Of paying two prices for the use 81
his mother tongue for Engl lshs Is spoken
everywhere. OF course. 8l It gets q 70 q be
really amusing when you IS see 5' English
and American spoken. It VI IS IA such s g
patent appeal q to our possible homcsick--Ei
ness and patriotic emotonalism. Just
what s. the x subtle Inference Is betWeeli
s"EnglIsh"s and 4. American ,'& one does OF
discover, for Of course no one go es IN ear
the places, and some ono suggested yes
8terdny&that It. would not be long before
1.-THE signs read ~ N o English spoken here"
1T would bio sure to take tremendous
Some enterprising Frerlchman ought to
try It.
III the feather bon reigned supreme 4 IN
London. 1t Is certainly surpassed In Paris
by that particularly ripping and billow-
| ing coiffure khownSass the narcel." Not
only Is every OF her shop window filled
with trinkless heads displaying this ok
quste CREATION, but every other omnibus
window. every other taximetre, in fact
every Their woman, becomes q living
witness to dts q sway. The boon COM
panion, feather boar indeed, hut lln-rnar-
celed. looked #unhnppily3 into the mirror:
S..'I loathe she said sE''but y look 50
flat soneWay
59@ So did II, but i baked at the thought
OF being marceled.
II wonder II Sit$ takes ono very long,
she wen t on. lnusingl y. III St sSs.
3II ttlrned on her. sfs 3s3+
81 X Z ou want to Il be MARCHED 2, I said
sternly q "A. 81 sf 3Ss
EHI do 4 not s slIa Al rat,, -n al no IL s..r
wouldn't do 1t = for anything. 5 II only
wondered II IT was easy,
# suppose that Il Is the way MI women
I'm still obdurate but In my soul I know
that ! shall be shopelessly marched before
I escape from Paris.
The New Alice"
It grntifled our staunchly American
attitude toward 1t to find TINT Mrs. Long,
worth, though she has dropped some
Washington ways this summer. has not
fall;ms q Victim to his. among other for-
eign fashions In fact, as one English
girl we met put t, Il Z am very glad to
SEQ that your nice Mrs. I4ongworth has
not yet gotten the legnette habit" We
have had, however a to get used to n new
Alice" In some ways. The little white
ilinen$ suits, with their short skirts. the
jolly little white shoes and big lifEerie
hat, with Its pale blue bow. In which
she whlrled around Washington In her
auto. have totally disappeared this side
the water. It does not seem to be the
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