The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1911-11-19
S|MUGGLERS AIDED
BY PARIS DEALERS
Custom Inspectors Receive
No Aid From Merchants
Nor Hotel Men.
NEW FAD FOR WOMEN
Shoes and Stockings Discard
ed and White Satin Soles
Only to Be Worn.
BY PAUL VILLIERS.
Special Gable 10 The Tribune

PARIS, Nov. lS-Paris dearly loves a
smuggler, provided OF course he Is de-
fraudiug the revenues Of some other
country than France. In the campaign
against American customs inspectors who
are here 10 spot the purchasers of jew
elry ana other Partisan iincry. for In
stance, another step has been taken CAL
culated 30 hamper their work and make
life miserable for them ] wrote some
time ago OF the means taken IN the shops
10 foil them and now the hotels have
actually joined the crusade. The hotel
managers, as soon as they discover the
calling OF the detectives. request them
to leave Should they refuse they are
at once eSicted. The hotel keeper Is
empowered by law To do this without
any explanation. 'H
There have been some rather amusing
results of this line Of action. More than
one American has been myStifled by a
pcremptory demand that he yacate his
rooms 10 find out after much effort that
he was under. suspicion as a spy for the
American treasury department And In
such cases il takes pretty good evidence
TO dispcl'. the suspicion.
This is' a rather more serious matter
than might be at first supposed, for when
O man Is spotted In one hotel word is
quickly passed around and he finds 1t
next TO impossible TO set quarters in any
other hotel.
Woman Humiliated Official.
There has been much excitement in
the little village Of Brioudc, near LIE
To,iy over the trial OF a young woman.
Mario Grenier- Bertrand. on q charge or
Humiliation caused to a public OFFICER.
A fire broke out in the village and
was burning furiously before the nearest
fire station. some miles away, even
heard about it,. There was no time 10
be lost, and in a few minutes, all the
villagers were at work on the blaze.
Maria Bertrand was very prominent IN
the iInprovised but numerous fire orie-
ade and worked like a Trojan. both at
using the hose and in urging her fellow
villapcrs 10 get on with the work. All
obeyed except one severe looking gentie
man, who contented himself with watch-
in. operations. This was too much 1or
the lady, and she Immediately gave him
n bit Of her mind which the oplooker
scornfully resented
Unable TO control her feelings, Maria
turned the hose upon tho phlegmatic
parsonage. and then, seiZing a bucket
filled with water. she jammcd IL on his
head. The lit was rather too exact Tor
it took three sendarmes half an hour
To get II off. and during this Time the
procureur Of the republic, for II was no
other than he. was subjected to a yolley
of ronic comment. amid fits OF laughter,
from the highly amused onlookers.
Thus wounded in his dignity the en-
RACED prosecutor had the woman ar
rested.
sentence or three months was passed.
| trouble was expected from the crowd In
court. but as the magistrates added that
! the sentence will only he served n the
offense. no disorder occurred.
Ladies Will Go Barefooted.
II is whispered in The Paris salons that
! A sensational new mode Is about 10 be
adopted by the leaders of fashion-in o
word that in fashionable soirces all the
! will
l OF course, IT will he in the name Of
| hygiene and beauty that ladies will be
required 10 do this: Critics stroye. and
| the waist, the collar that restricted the
neck, the sleeve that hid the beauty OF
the arm. the petticoat that made walking
! difficult What was left for them Ga
! abolish next? There did not seem TO be
much but their inventive spirit has found
something more, aud they have declared
that this winter ladies are To wear neither
| shoes nor stockings. IL Will be the ruin
OF shoemakcrs but the fortune OF pedi
cures. So this season, under the toatinG
il seems. little. feet peep in and out.
But delicate white satin soles are TO bc
allowed and morders OF bright -bued
" covering the end of pink toes. and The
same flowers Will climb in trellis work
around the bare ankles
Socialism Failed,
\ municipal employee In the towo o.
| Eibeuf. Normandy. on entering Tie cellar
of the town hall found the body OF NJ
MoucheI. a Socialist deputy and MAYOR O
The town, who had shot himself Th'
! mayors suicide was tragedy OF mu
nicipal trading and sequel To dra
mettc statement by MIR. Mouchcl whei
he confessed that his Socialist expert
ments had ended badly for the town. n
/ rho result, OF a campaign organized bN
NJ Mouchel the Eibcnf gas WORKS wh'cl
were privately owned and working at
profit. were muut'iualizcd. sum -
G2o00n was spent In III" erection OF
modern plant. but after - years workin'
II was found that tlo.po" more "oul'
? haye To be spent 10 carry on the work,