Forest City press. (Forest City, Potter County, D.T. [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1914-10-28
NO WEEPING OFFICIALLY.

their shutters down and barred; but
n kind Of shop at least does a lively
trade-the pharmacies. The boot
shops are not worrying, either-nor h
medical bookstores. especially those on
the Rue dEcole de Medicine. But even
these, and the stationers, who ply a
lively trade in writing pads, and even
the big department stores all close at
midday for an hour or two. There are
not enough clerks nov for one to re-
lieve another at lunch time.
There is no need OF buying more than
one paper. morning or evening. for
they are all alike. and each contains
two columns of editorials clipped from
all the others. The only ADVERTISE
mentS printed are the want ads" OF
these there are hundreds. infinitely pa
thetic in their brief abbreviated stories
of misery.
have been stopped only once so far
for my papers-luckily l had them with
me. 1t was after midnight. while cross
ing the Place du Carrousel; one is new
er molested by day unless II has the
complexion and costume of a Barbara"
or German. Soon Paris will undoubtedly
be gone over with a tine-tooth comb.
But Paris is pretty nearly raine dry
of fighting material. Only the re
formes" remain-those incapacitated
for soldering by physical defect. The
estimates of the mobilization allowed
LOT ABOUT ~ per cent WIG WOulu 10
missing at roll call. Frence has re-
sponded with "a per cent of it's he
o~retical effectiveness! There are corps
of volunteers-Italian, Polish, Ameri-
can, and other foreigners. Men are get
ting so scarce that they are suspected
and scorned.
Paris is Manned BY Women.
AS YOU descend into the Metropolitan
| Subway station, IA woman at the ticket
office serves you. When you go down.
stairs. a woman punches your ticket-a
pretty m efficient but rather sober
in her glazed vizored cap and smart
uniform. who smiles and says Hurry
up, the last train Is just leaving!"
| Women guards push the side doors to-
gether-only the controller is a la
On the trans women take your money.
make change, and pass over your ticket.
For a few days the passengers enjoyed
the novelty and the woman's mex
perience. but if a look of uncertainty
crossed her face. everyone was ready
to help her with advice or information,
to tell her the names of the streets,
even to ring the bell for her and pick
up dropped 50-centime pieces.
The Societe Generate, the great CO.
operative banking company of %Frence.
has lost almost IS per e OF It's en-
ployes. Blu the wives and daughters
and sisters of it's porters and clerks
have donned black frocks embroidered
| with the company's monogram and re-
/! opened the doors. In newspaper offices
the porters are all women. Women clean
the streets at night, and women have
begun to drive the taxicabs. Wom-
en- of all sorts-governesses, s%tenogra-
pliers. shopkeepers, even-aIe leaving
Paris every day to assist on the farms
of France.
But as for the oldest trade in the
world"-What of the daughters of
joy in these troublous times? The
days are past when every army had its
skirt of camp flowers; the ladies of the
street nave as little place in this new
seriousminded town from whence the
men. their prey. have gone. And yet
they have fallen in perforce with the
wonderful adjustment of the times and
found their place. Two days after war
was declared every file upon the po-
lice cards was und up and dis
patched to the hospital Of st. Lazare.
there to sew bandages and load cart
ridges for the war;! Every respectable
woman in Paris who hasn't actually to
work for her living is in the Red Cross.