The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1915-01-18

spring ana the tuIl blue streams tell
the brown grasses and the tall pop
lars that their colors will soon be gay
,Gr.
! AS the shadows fall no guard comes
as in England to pull your curtain
down according to military orders, and,
as YOU approach Paris, you see fami-
blazing light. You are astonished af-
ter your London experience of semi
darkness to find the boulevards ablaze
and no apparent fear of aerial enemies
or sky invasion, although aeroplanes
land Zeppelins and bombs may be flying
and fighting only 80 miles away. Now
and then searchlight iIlunrnes the
heavens but even lights are far less
conspicuous than in London.
Paris Reopened.
Paris is gradually getting accustom-
ed to the situation More than 30 first
Iclass hotels are partially opened and
advertising. Many of the business
streets have semi-Sunday appearance.
Boulevards running from the Place de
H. Opera are well filled with people and
nearly all of the stores are now open
In the first weeks of December You
could see the re-opening day by day
and when on the 10th the government
returned to Paris, the art stores and
the jewelry stores joined with the con
fectioners, trunk dealers and book men
and threw open shutters than had been
closed for months.
Paris is now normal but not crowd
ed. Theatres are re-opening, but the
restaurants must be closed at 10 p. III
The inhabitants young and old picnic
y, l.,
most interest in the defences about the
Paris gates, the meats, the new trench
es that have been dug and the tree
: trunks that have been thrown down hv
the defences with their branches and
tops pointing outward as though to in
, terrupt the progress of an enemy
. Buildings have been taken down and
the forts of Paris stand forth as never
before, hut when you learn how un
D manned and how useless they are il
modern warfare you can but smile anj
= Join with the people in their curiosity
: excursions. A single modern she'll ear
put a modern stone and steel fort
= garrison and guns, entirely out O
commission.
A Rejuvenation
A year ago Paris looked dirty anj
o decadent. Her building fronts wer,
grimy. her streets were dirty ant
there was a general carelessness wher,
, before had been art, precision anC
l cleanliness. Today Paris streets ar,
clean. There is even more evidence o
rebuilding and modern conveniences
, More street sweepers whirl through tn
= squares not singly but in pairs am
: more extended series, and they NOV
< with automobile rapidity, quickl,
cleansing the pavement.
| was reminded thereby of a person
al experience at the breaking out o
the Spanish American war. At break
fast on a Sunday morning with one 0
: America S most successful millionaire
said, ''How is it possible that tn
: stock market can be rising as the couI
. try is going to war-a war that ma
cause some of our new warships t
!, turn turtle and may bring lombard
|. ment upon our sea coast cities. We
= before the guns are booming the stoc
: market is booming. Indeed the stool
: market began to boom from the tim
" we declared state of war.
: And this successful ulti-millionair
: replied quietly, FStocks are going u
i because l am buying them and ever.
9 other intelligent capitalist is buyin
them. Look out of the window there
: That street sweeper at the crossing ha
I Strengthened up and is sweeping tina
3 crossing better and with more energ
: because the flags are flying and tn
!: bells are ringing, and the guns vii
:, soon be booming. War is the creates
cnergizer of a people. There is nov
l. profit in industry and enterprise an