The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1910-03-14
10y Lavoyaseuse)


Paris, March 14.-With a heartfelt
sigh of relief Parisians of all classes
are welcoming the preparations for
fetes and other celebrations associated
with spring and summer out door life
in France and which are so character.
istic of Paris at this season of the year.
AS expected the entire social life of
the French capital has been more than
disorganized during and since the
flood. although it is now recovering:
for women have had their hands full
and their time completely occupied in
assisting not alone one another, but
thousands of unfortunate victims. un.
known to them socially, but with
whom a bond of sympathy was at once
formed as result of mutual misfor-
tune. Concerts. bazaars and other
features of the kind have been and still
are being held for the purpose of rails.
! ing funds with which to aid sufferers.
Nobly have the society women OF
Paris responded to the call for aid and
sympathy. A common sight, and one
and forced gripping at the throat and
a tug at the heartstrings has been the
tri-color of France, and the Red Cross
flag displayed together. sometimes in
the poorer quarters and again over a
canopy erected at the entrance to some
palatial residence in the fashionable
quarter where the inevitable red car
pet, stretching from curb to portal gave
sign that some important social func.
ton was being held within to aid the
flood sufferers.
Americans have freely joined in hui
manity's wireless IS o. S. call for i'm
mediate aid. Nearly all who are close
ly allied with the Partisan smart set
have worked size by side to help the
Red Cross society. many giving up
| their homes to charity entertainments
while the American doctors resident in
Paris. have given professional assist
| ance voluntarily the value of which
cannot be OVereStimated
| Nevertheless women are beginning tC
| realize the immense loss trades people
! have sufferd from the almost total sup
| preston of social functions, but as ar
| American brigadier general serving in
the Philippines during the war with
Washington on one occasion Gust apro
pos of what no one has ever yet dis
covered) the Rubicon has beer
crossed" and taking heart of grace, So
ciety is returning to it's own again after
these days of heavy trials. Severa
| large dinners and other functions are
| to be held during horse show week
that event to which all Paris society
flocks. The show, no doubt. this year
will be brilliant glittering scene, as
always. the gorgeous tOilettes of the
women and the uniforms or pink coat:
of the men giving wonderful color tC
! the occasion. From thence forward
these will be continual events of flow
er shows, picture exhibitions and bes
of all. the races where fashionable Par
is is seen at it's best.
| People have been so thrown apart
by the lack of telephone service ant
the next to impossibility of getting
|
save by partial boat travel. that many
amusing and curious experiences dur
ing the flood have just come to light
as social intercourse is being resum
ed, and while interesting from one
point of view the victims are not anX
ious for repetition.
Even with the amelioration of condi
| lions there are still many inconven
| fences, not TO say hardships to be un-
| dergone. One of the most annoying is
the difficulty of transportation with
the Metro as it is always termed
here, or subway system, entirely out OF
service as. a result of the flood. the traf
fic question is a serious problem, fol
where hundreds of thousands of per
sons awaited themselves daily of this
| means Of transportation they are now
| compelled to make use of such surface
facilities as are possible. and these
are tremendously Inadequate. being
| confirmed chiefly to cabs or omnibuss