The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1911-04-08
NOW WATTS
YANKEE INVASION
Partisan Beggars in Fondest
Anticipation of the
Flow of Coins.
rial Cable from the International
News Ssrvice)
BY IA RACONTEUSE.

~ hSSON
Paris, April S.-As the time is APP
preaching when Americans in hordes
and swarms will invade Paris before
taking in the great festival in Norman
dy enroute for the coronation, ii may
not be out of place 10 say few
words about Partisan beggars, who
say that the milk OF human kindness
is more plentiful in Americans than
in any other foreign visitors to the
gay city.
They are actually rehearsing now
and judging from their expressions
they are anticipating a good season
this year.
| could not help smiling the other
day at cripple | saw when passing
through the Porte Champerret. Just
outside the city gate where there is
always a miscellaneous collection of
beggars, flower sellers and vendors
OF trifies of one kind and another,
there was a man with one leg and the
abbreviated stump of another one. He
was selling songs, and as he hoped
about. offering his stoCkin-trade to
possible customers, he balanced him
self on his solitary limb without aid
of Crutches or even stick. He look
ed hale and hearty, and the way in
which he maintained his equilibrium
was very clever AS | watched the
uni ambiste' a couple of young Am
orleans passed. They TOO. stopped,
and one of them exclaimed: by
George. That is worth a quart err
and stepping up to the song seller he
gave him a franc.
NJ. Georges Berry, the we'll known
Paris deputy. who is endeavorins to
get the chamber of deputies to re-
form the present medicity laws. has
tim and again exposed the tricks of
the sham infirm and the impostors
who live on public charity. Many, he
says, are the blind who recover their
sight when they wish to avenge an
injury or dispute a rich booty; the
one-armed who fell people with their
mutilated members; lame men and
"culs-de-j atte' who hun like horses
when threatened with arrest; deaf
and dumb mendicants who, once the
days work is over. soon find their
VOICES "Hell tney WANT 10 oIuel dD-
sinthe.
Rigor and leniency alike have so far
proved powerless to relieve Paris of
it's beggars. At one time the authori-
ties went so far as to decree that
every citizen convicted of having Civ
en- aims to a beggar was to be con-
demned to fine equivalent to the
~>f uh
person convicted of having solicited
money or bread in the streets or pub
lie ways was liable to arrest. But
mendicancy still exists, and those who
follow it as a profession make a very
good living.
OF course, it is not necessary to eX-
tend the hands and whine for aims.
That is the most elementary and clum-
sy form of the art. Begging is pur
sued in many ways, and DISCUSSES it
self under varying forms. 1t opens
carriage doors. sells flowers. papers
and matches in the streets and on the
boulevards, picks up cigar and cigar
cite ends, which it sells to illicit to-
bacco manufacturers at franc
pound, sings beneath the windows of
the rich, and turns the handle of
hand organ. That the exhibition of
articles for sale in thee streets is fire.
quently but pretence is well known.
A woman who sold matches in Paris
was asked whether good many ped
estrians did not give her the sou with
out requiring anything in return.
Yes, SIR" she replied in tone of Ia
ment, but sometimes they take the
Matches"
A few words about the jupe cul-
otte AS far as can be seen, it will at
it's worst, be only worn on the stage,
and by those who always go in for
eccentricities. On the other hand, /
fancy that a modified form will be
used by the right sort of women in
their own homes at tea, for bridge in
the afternoon, and for small dinners
But such frocks as these have wide,
full trousers made of soft chiffon, and
these are discreetly yelled by skirt
or long tunic of gauze, which is weigh
ed down and thickened by rich en-
broideries Worth, Callot and LATER
riere do not make the divided skirt;
but Poiret, Beer, and Martial ct Ar
mand have some charming specimens.
Black, black and white, grey, and
fawn seem the best liked shades at
the present moment. Many of the
models are in bright colors, but they
are often copied in the above tints
for smart Frenchwomen. A Parisienne
knows the worth of black: but Il
black gown to be success must be in
any blacks, and should have touches
of jet or of handmade embroideries.
In fact, it should have varied tints in
the way of material. Black and white
looks we'll in stripes, and is at its best
in shot silk or foulard, but it should
have a note of bright emerald green
an artful mixture said to have been
one of the successes of the Inflated
Empress Josephine, to add piquance
to the gown. \ grey gown ought TO
be all grey. as bits of another color
are out of the picture Also it should
be made in a soft material. Chiffon
does we'll in grey, and so dods drepe-
DECLINE or mousseline-de-soie, and in
winter a grey velvet is most desirable.
Can we fall in love with a mask?
Yes. says Balzac. in posthumous tale