The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1913-01-19
Paris Has Taken Up the Latest Fad
and II is Considered Quite
Proper Over
There.
BUSINESS rs EXPANDING
Famous champs-EIy ls Now a
Business Street and Society
Has Been
ousted.

! by William Philip Simms, Paris Cor
respondent OF the United Press.l
PARIS, Jan. 1S-Mrs. Nicholas
| Longworth and those other Washing.
ton ladies' of fashion who some weeks
ago appeared at reception wearing
precious stones on their heels, may
claim the distinction of having set a
style for Paris
For 1t is distinctly la mode here
now, one may even say the rage, for
women of the grand monde"-as
French folk call the lucky mortals Of
/ high society-to appear on gala oc-
caslons with diamonds, emeralds,
iturquoises, sapphires, rubies, and
pearls set in the elongated heels of
their dainty slippers.
Paris styles travel to America in
one day. They sometimes appear on
| both sides simultaneously. And it is
not an unheard of thing. for French
fashion to make it's first appearance
in the United States, so rapidly do tne
Yankees assimilate the new. BIT
Paris is too Boston-like too conde-
scending and conservative, to jump
at innovations; which fact accounts
for the somewhat slow acceptation of
Washington society's be-jeweled heels.
Like all Paris styles this one orig
mated so far as the continent is CON
Icerned-on the stage. Stylish act
resses were the first to take it up.
lwhereupon fashionable bootmakers
began to display models to their ultra
lit clients, who taking it for granted
that such charmin., mode could be
nothing but French, lost little time in
leaving their measures for footwear
of the same kind.
For the surest way to kill a style
here is to let it be noised about that
at originated on the American side,
In which respect, according to leading
New York coutouriers, the French are
quite like the Americans themselves.
Mile. Regina Padet, one of the beau
ties OF the Paris stage, wears a pair
OF slippers with gems on the heels.
Sandals would be preferable she
remarked when Interviewed, sandals,
worn on the bare feet, with rings on
the toes That has always been my
ambition. and until that dream comes
true the jeweled heel will suffice
Mile. Gabrielle Lorziat, another
actress and noted boulevard beauty,
thinks the gem-decked heel elegant,
and unwittingly paid the Washington
ians glowing tribute. She said
There Is something about the idea
that is distinctly clever Such slip
ipers are indisputably chic. Stones in
color harmonizing with the gowns
worn, set in the heels Of evening slip
pers. would, in my opinion, be of the
very best taste. So far as | am con-
cerned, the things done"
Mile. Dorziat wears rubies.
PARIS, Jan. 1S.-Slowly, but surely,
business is ousting society from the
| famous Champs Elyseec. Every little
while some firm either leaves the Rue
de la Paix and re-establishes itself in
/ the newer center, Or else adds q
branch there. retaining the old stand.
The automobile started the wave
One or two expensive makes took
leases in the Champs Elysees and the
rest quickly followed The famous
avenue is now Automobile Row
Art stores came next; then dress
makers and milliners; drug stores,
fancy grocers, furniture dealers, thea
tres, hotels, etc, trailed.
Rents are soaring in consequence.
In more than one instance rentals
have gone UP, not 10 per cent, but
nearly ten times the amount at a
single leap.
Fouquet's Bar, for instance, long
the meeting place in Paris of English
and American visitors, when its lease
expired few weeks ago, saw it's rent
/ raised from $1,000 a year to $4,000.
A fashionable tailor, wishing GER
tain location for his upper-crust trade,
went to the proprietor and offered
him point blank $4,000 year rental
for it. The site was second-fioor
apartment, occupied by a rich Paris
ian who was paying $4,000 year.
He got notice to pay $4,000 a year
or get cut. He got.
When Excelsior, the latest of the
morning papers, went cunning for a
location. it found it in the Champs
Elysees. An apartment house was re
modelled to suit the needs of an up-to
date newspaper plant and leased tc
Excelsior at an enormous rate.
J Several new theatres are scheduled
for the famous avenue and at least one
big department store. In the mean
time, on the other side of the Arc d.
Triumph, the avenue de la Grand'
Arrnee tthe continuation Of thu
ohamps-Elysees) likewise has passet
eyer to business. So society. in it
slow, reluctant retreat has beel