The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-11-08

less than forty cents a day. or s12 . month for their room, or who reside permanently or keep up, constant domicile in Paris. The bill is to com prise all such accessories as service. lighting. and heating. This seems to indicate that foreigners win be spared tax on their meals or drinks at their hotels while in Paris. a eondescension for which they should really be thank full. Persons living in furnished apart ments will have to pay as we'll as those living in hotels. But persons occupying a fiat by themselves will be exempt. as they are considered perma- nent residents. As Paris goes to much expense to keep its public parks avenues. and museums in such beauti- full order from which the foreign visitors derive much of their pleasure, 1t Is only just. 1t is argued, that they should contribute to the public fundR. Paris. therefore, to all lntents and purposes. for the foreigner. win be considered a pleasure resort, with a nice little tax on the pleasure.
 Parisians never care very much for display advertisements in newspapers, and prefer advertising in the columns of the paper where the news is But recently a form of advertisement has come Into fashion which is as inReni- ous as an advertisement can be. The best explanation of what 1t is will be a sample of the Kind of thing I mean:-"The text of the autograph letter sent by the Emperor of Austria to the French Government will not. of course. be published "telegraphs our Vienna correspondent. But I state upon high authority that the letter was written with T. B. c. fountain penn" There is no end to the ingenu- itv with which these advertisements are hidden. and one reads them far l that reason. because until one has read them quite through. it is most unlikely that one has guessed what they are. For instance some time. ago during the visit of the King of Spain to Paris. the following appeared in several of the Paris papers :-"rhere was an immense crowd at about two this afternoon at the corner of the Boulevard des Italiens and the Rue, At hrst nobody quite knew what had happened. Then a strong force of police arrived and pushed the crowd back. and it was whispered from mouth to mouth that the King of Spain Was coming. He was not coming. lie had already come. With that love of complete incognito which the young King affects. he had strolled up the bouievards on foot and entered the shop of M. M.-,ths well-known
 
 sum of--the most fashionable out fit may be obtained. There Is no fin. 1 dicatton that these announcements are paid for us advertisements
 Possessing a fur worth SI 800 Madame Elise. an actress always wore l 1t in all weathers. The reason was that 1t Is not paid for. Tn French law no distraint can be levied upon any article of clothing or jewellery. etc. carried at the time upon the person. The furrier had sent and bean him self repeatedly to the lady'k house to recover the stole but she inva. .riablv | received him with a charming smile and with the Sl 800 worth of furs round her neck, and he was baked. | But he has at last been too clever for her. She was asked out to luncheon one of the Indian summer days which we have been having. and on which furs would have been unbearable ana she thought she could safely leave her cravat at home. unluckily for her the furrier was in collision with her host. and while she was out he went to her house and captured the stole.