The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-02-27
S&lE1Y IS
BOXING mad
1srisians Are DaHy Just Now over
the Battling of TWO
Men in
Ring.
SOME FRENCH GOSSIP
SOME FRENCH GOSSIP
Wine Trust is Getting its Screws a:
Work on the People and
Prices are Going
Up.
HBy William Philip simma, Paris cor

HBy William Philip simms, Paris cor
respondent of The United Press.J
PARIS, Feb. 27.-Society is boy
Nng-mad. In America prize fights are
Witnessed by a bowling mob as a rule,
the men mostly in shirt sleeves
ishould it be hot weatherl while
lwumen are conspicuous by their alb
ssence. Here audiences nre about
half and half. men and women. Full
dress and extremely decoliete gowns
are almost as necessary as a, the
opera.
Some ten Years ago salons de
boxe' were already quite the go.
Young society bucks who we're
proud of their physical prowess, en-
tered the padded square and took
part In many elegant mills in
which the opponent half the time
was a huge American negro AS the
social haro rammed in a solar-plexus
or gave the black wi1izzing upper
cut, his best girl, In the front row
near his corner, bursted hers gloves
Since then there has been slight
change. The presence of the society
chap in the ring isn't necessary to
give the battle the upper crust o. X.
They're al 0. K. now. ia Boxe"
Is much more fashionable. it would
seem, than is the gala night when
Signorina Whatcf1ermaycallum sings
iat the opera Any Friday night at
the Cirque de Paris, when Sam Nc
Vea, Joe jeanette, Harry Lewis or
any of the Bugs. white or black, are
on, one will find more buzz-wagons
and private carriages blocking the
avenues of the neighborhood than
about the most favored theatre in
town The list Of those present in
cludes the Baron So-and-So. the
Duchesse de Brie'' and all the rest
Of them, and by consulting the social
register one will find that half the
aristocracy were out.
Seats in the front row sell at about
- apiece Boxes are to be had from
so to $50 up. Seats which may be
had for 81 at the opera sell at these
social prize fights for about s.. There
are fights almost every night.
is the eminent Lord Rosebury of
England TO wed the IA Gus French
actresgbesuty, Nine Cecil SoreIe The
question has been asked off and on
Tor the past six months yet it is still
unanswered
Americans and English speaking
people generally are fond OF recitiDg
the funny little mistakes made by
foreigners when they start 10 do
things with our Ian gusge The Lon
don Daily News, in wiring to Nine
Sorel in French, was guilty of the fol
1oving:
Est-H yrai Que Lord Rosebury
propose vous Oh est-il lin canard
II is rather difficult to translate this
INTO It's English equirilent because of
the difference in the acceptadon Of the
meaning of the word propose, but
lit would be about like this:
Is It true that Lord Rosebury made
.soFl q proposition YER is he a duck?'
ITO propose" in French does not
ssnean propose to marry" It means
Hxactly what it says, everything de-
kpending upon the word or words fol-
flowing The dispatch might mean a
proposition TO play a game Of whist,
10 go buggy riding. or anything else.
In spite of the prepaid reply arrang-
fed for by The News, Nine Sorel has
mot answered whether Lord Kosebury
1as a duck.
Since December of 1910 rne prices
ROT ordinary table vines have adj
svanced 90 to % per cent This was
done by sort Of wine trust move
ment, the merchants ali over the coun-
try, by common accord, agreeing to
boost on. account of the bad year. Bar
rels of Bordeaux which last year sold
for $50 franc now sell for 500 and
bottle wines which cost one franc now
sell for / IA francs.
The year of 1910 was one of the
worst in the history OF France Other
years which were disastrous were
of 1879, 1885, 1887, 1889. 1890 and 1895
when the average production was
from 24.0o0O00 to $4,000, 600 barrels of
wine of % gallons each. Since then
the number of vineyards have been
largely increased. However 1910 Yield
ed only 100000 barrels. The aver
nge loss is estimated by disinterested
authorities at 50 per cent and ranges
from 20 per cent in certain sections
to 96 per cent in the Champagne
country Only per cent or the aver
age crop of champagne being realized,
champagne dealers in the district
bought wines from other districts and
champasneized' them This is what
started the champagne riots. These
IN turn, called attention to the wine
crisis all over France.
The department OF the Marne, which
- in most Of the champagne vines