The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-09-05
PARIS AND
 ITS INCIDENTS. Queer Story of a Strange
 Child. MOTHER OR IMP0SITOR American Tourists Arc Finding
 Little Fun. The Boulevards Look Bad, Drenched Continually in Rain--An Odd Beauest is Made 10 The Immorfals.,
BY A. W. L,AMOUREUx.


 Paris. Sept. "A strange lost child Is perplextng the Paris police. An American mother Is claiming the girl as her daughter. but the latter dis. claims her mother. The tangle is in- extricable. The girl is only six years old, but talks with astonishing volu- biiity. She happened of her own ac- cord to call upon policeman one day but as she could not speak any ap. parently known language, he took her to the police station. where all the ex- perts and interpreters at first failed to understand what the girl wanted Finally, it turned out that she spoke some sort of Armenian dialect, and an interpreter was found. She then said that she had been taken away from her grandfather's home in Syria by a strange woman, who wanted to take her to America, and who had, in fact brought her as far as Paris The It, tie girl said that she had taken the first opportunity to run away from the woman. The police were astonished at the fluency with which the girl talked, and were about to send her temporarily to a home, when the strange woman she had spoken of turned up. and said that the child was her daughter.
 q am not your daughter" retorted the little one. T know my mother. She is very different from this per- son."
 The police were seriously embar- rassed. They put off the inquiry for the day to obtain Q second interpreter for the mother, or alleged mother, herself speaks . strange mixture of England and French.
 AS soon as the two were again con- fronted with each other. the precocious child threw up her hands and looked at the young woman in horror. 'She Is not my mother" she exclaimed The woman then told her story. She said that she was born at Marseflles but went to New York when very young. She married an Italian in New York when she was 14 years of age and had this child. Her husband died the day that the child was born. She kept the baby for one year. then sent her to be taken care of by the childs grandfather in Syria. Having heard that the grandfather had died. she went to Syria to fetch the child. On the way the little girl showed ter rible temper, and did all the mischief she could. On reaching the Lyons railway station in Paris she sat down in the waiting room and fell asleep. During that time, she alleges. the child took the bag in which she had all her money, amounting to some x60O and gave it to some strange woman who disappeared. When she woke she slapped the child. who then ran away into the street. and she did not know what had become of her until she saw her picture in the papers.
 The child, who does not understand a word of the mothers language. was then told what she had said. and denied 1t all For whole hour the little one contradicted 1t in every detail. She said that the woman was not her mother. Until three weeks ago she had never seen the woman. It iS not true that her grandfather is dead She knew her real mother very we'll. for she left Syria only & year ago. and got married again in town not far from Jerusalem. She added:
 The ChiId's Story.
 "Thfs woman came one day to my grandfather's house when I was alone. She told me my grandfather was wait ing for me in the train. I got in and he was not there. The train started away, and I cried, and wanted to go back. Then this woman beat me. and the train went on. At Beyrouth she took me on board 6 big steamer. and we went to Port Said. Alexandria, and Marseilles. As soon as we got to Paris | took the first chance and ran away from her. do not want to be with