Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1910-12-17
MADAME RICHARD FAMOUS WOMAN MOUNTAIN CLIMBER
CHRISTMAS DAY IN. THE PARIS
LATIN QUARTER.
Holiday
Devoted Roast Turkey Mnce PieJust Evening
And Morning S Spent in Preparation the

that sweet little Miss Perkins, known
as "Bob--Bit of Old Broadway" is go
ing to the dance with that impossible
Mr.. Norris who divorced, his wife be-
cause she removed her teeth before en-
gaging In sleep. You had thought OF
taking her to the dance yourself, but
YOU are glad you didn't. IL she is that
kind of u girl. And so on-reputations
damaged by shrug or blasted with u
simple culver of the eyelid.
Ho. FOR THE BATH HOUSE.
After the destruction has abated you
rush back to your room, open satchcl
in the middle of the floor. and throw
therein soap, sponge. brush and those
other things you need Il you battle
properly. Christmas eve is q large
night and it is usual TO take bath
before 1t comes on: all the first fami-
lies in the quarter do. OF course dur
Ing your conversations at the restaur-
ant YOU have referred frequently and
casually to your morning rubdown:
but the time has come when you must
be seen walking down the Boulevard
Montparnasse In the direction of the
bath house.
on such occasions as this, just be-
fore an important social event, the
courtyard of the bath house rescm bles
tho entrance OF railway station at a
summer resort. Young men and Wom-
en-, satchcls In hand, are rushing for
the next tub. In the lobby you meet
all your friends. including the girl you
are to take to the dance. Ii you are
kind, you will cut her. 1t isn't for being
seen In the bath house that she
bushes. but because she has not yet
been coiffed for the evening. Nice peo-
pie who take patent-medicino don't
Ike ghpur tbnIr "a nd
photographs.
About half past 0, after the last rites
have been performed, after you have
given Il futile twist to your rasccnt
moustache. and trimmed the whiskers
OFT your cuffs. you present yourself at
the Girls club In the Rue de la
Grandc Chaumiere, where most of the
American girls who study in Paris arc
domiciled. In the court of the'club are
many indications of vanished arclli-
tectural splendor. for tho building was;
at one time a nobleman's palace.
ushcrcd into the drawing room you
find yourself among n bunch of fellows
who know for what but not why they
are waiting. One by one they are
picked Off by heavily yelled visions who
are sorry" they have been so long
THE DIZZY wHlRI..
The ballroom of the Cercle Intcrna-
tional whore tho Christmas dances are
held Is comfortable size for the clicue
OF Americans who entertain there. 1t
Is rented out by a ioval Frenchman
VINO with his wonderful Wife invariably
attends the American functions.
If some one daros you to dance with
the madame, take him up on It: Won
VIII never forget the experience Shc
galumphs around the room without re-
FersinS and ut a terrific speed You
can't tell the lady you wish to stop;
she wouldn't hear you If you did: her
ntnd Is bent entirely on momentum,
DIZZY and almost helpless you pray for
escape. There IS no escape Temporary
relief. yes! Climb up on the lower
rufhe OF the ladder of ruffes around
her skirt, put your head on her shout
der ana close your eyes, Comets .whirl-
ing through space, IN time. are bound to
strike something; with madame it may