Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1914-11-09
GAY PAREE KN|TS AND
WAITS FOR GOOD NEWS

noon, allowing time for tea.
Paris has been full of rumors af late
Perhaps they were both the cause and
the effect of the Duoyancy of the peo-
pie Won Kluck had been captured
somewhere; $50 troop trains had gone
north to fetch him and his legions to
Versailles; the Hotel de Vile was to
be Illuminated, and so on and so forth.
Some credulous people had even seen
placards announcing good news affixed
to the walls of various Mairies. The
strictest precautions are being taken
to track down and to stop these sup
posedly true stories, and people are
warned against reading more into the
official "communiques" than appears
therein.
All the same, you can not keep the
buoyancy down. Certain restaurants
are beginning to rebel against being
forced to close their doors at 9:15.
One or two in the regions of Montmar-
ire, thanks to benignant policemen, in
sist on keeping open until II p. m. 1
strolled into one last night, which was
once rendered famous by Aristide
room, half full of ancient desks and
more or less disreputable people. But
every one was filled with the spirit of
"bonhomie," and chanted the chorus of
the patriotic songs with enormous
zest. There was no bombast about
these songs, none of the "ready-to-the-
gaiter-button" spirit. They were
all almost international in tone, and
gladly owned the debt owed to "phleg-
matt England" "great Russia" and
little Belgium" The Emperor William
was sacrificed with all the cruel wit of
which the French tongue is capable,
and La Gosse au fusil de bois" was
repeated in all it's horror. No on had
anything to drink for the "bar" at
least was closed, and even that favor
lite beverage of Montmartre, "cerises"
was impossible to obtain.
French people are much amused at
the habit of British soldiers of whistl-
ing on the march. They are surprised
at the volume of sound, and find that
the whistling of Its Long, Long
Way to Tipperary," or of the "Marseil-
laise," is probably better accompan-
iment to long and dusty tramp than
the shouting of any number of songs.
They like the shrill sound, and wonder
that the phlegmatic Englishmen should
so far bestir himself. In fact, France
at the end of this war will have to
alter her opinion of England on a good
many subjects. British thoroughness
has always been more or less grudg-
ingly recognized, but just now the
tribute on every ones lips is to British
grit and British pluck even in adver-
sity.
Parisians in general are having rath-
er pleasant moment of respite from
the duties that fashion imposed, and
if it were not for that many of them
have sort of shame of enjoying such
leisure and security while their breth-
en- are in the trenches and exposed
to all the horrors of an earthly in
ferno, they would confess that they
had never spent so glorious summer
We are no longer obliged to attend
the theatres and be seen at the Opera
and the Coincide on fixed days. If now
and again we enter a kinema. it is
of our own free will and pleasure, as
in any other provincial town. Nobody
dresses" any more, to speak Olive
get up and go to bed early, and lead q
truly virtuous and patriarchial life
The grandest and most fastidious me1
and women rub shoulders anonymous
ly in public spirited cares for the poor
the sick and the wounded, and new
traits of character develop where leas
expected l met a man today, an ex
cellent good fellow-"one of the best,