The citizen-Republican. (Scotland, Bon Homme County, S.D.) 1???-19??, 1914-10-29
NO WEEPING OFFICIALLY.

their shutters down and barred; but
one kind of shop at least does a s3sely
trade-the pharmacies. The boot
shops are not worrying, either-nor the
medical bookstores. especially those on
the Rue d'Ecole de Medicine. But ven
these, and the stationers, who ply q
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 now for to re-
lteve 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" or
these there are hundreds, Infinitely pa
thetic in their brief abbreviated stories
Of misery.
I nave been stopped only once SO far
for my papers-luckily I had them with
me. 1t was after midnight, while cross
ing the Place du Carrousel; one is new
er molested by day unless one has the
complexion and costume of a Barbara
or German. Soon Paris will undoubtedly
be gone over with a fine-tooth comb.
But Paris is pretty nearly drained dry
of fighting material. Only the re-
formes' remain-those incapacitated
for soldering by physical defect. The
estimates of the mobilization allowed
for about 20 per cent who would be
missing at roll call. Frence has re-
sponded with 81 per cent of it's the
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, a woman at the ticket
office serves you. When you &c DOWN
stairs. a woman punches your ticSet-a
pretty woman, efficient but rather sober
in her glazed vizored cap and smart
uniform, who smiles and says: Hurry
up, the last train Is just leaying!"
Women guards push the side doors to-
g~ether-only the controller Is q man.
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 IL 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 rs per cent of Its en-
t ployes. But the wives and daughters
and sisters of its porters and clerks
/ have donned black frocks embroidered
l with the company's monogram and re-
i lopened the doors. In newspaper offices
: the porters are all women. Women clear
t the streets at night, and women have
e begun to drive the taxtcabs. Won
s en- Of all sorts-governesses, %stenogra'
pliers, shopkeepers. eyen-are leaving
Paris every day to assist on the farm!
e of France.
:. But as for the oldest trade in thu
i world'-what. of the daughters o
low in these Iroublous times? TIL
, days are past When every army had it
skirt Of camp flowers: the ladies of tn
e street have as little place In this ney
s~eriousminded town from whence tn
Q men, their prey. have gone. And We
they have fallen in perforce with tn
: wonderful adjustment Of the times an
:, found their place. Two days after wa
a was declared every lille" upon the 20
lice cards was rounded up and dis
Ie patched to the hospital Of st. Lazar'
s. there to sew b~andages and load cart
ridges for the war! Every ~respectabl
is woman in Paris who hasn't actually I
re work for her living is in the Red eros