The Daytona daily news. [volume] (Daytona, Fla.) 1903-1926, 1915-03-05
RIFE JEANNE D'ARC!
AH,H0W ABOUT IT?
TRAGEDY in French Town as
Overheard in Cafe Of the
Golden Lion.
SCENE AT APERITIF HOUR
Nine. la Patronne Tells How the
UhIans, in LordIy Fashion, Paid
for the Drinks She
Served Them.

paris.-We we're sitting in a cafe
at the aperitif hour-an hour that sur.
,ives the war. We were in city OF
good size in northern France. famous
for both cathedral and cheese. 1t was
then principal haven for refugees
and an evacuation center for wounded.
The Germans had been there, as the
natronne of the Cafe du Lion dor
narrated constantly, but now the bat
te lines were some distance away. If
the wind happened from the right d.
rection, when the noise of the city was
silenced by military order at night
fall, the haunting boom-boo-o-m Of
heavy artillery could be heard family.
No one who has heard that sound ever
forgets it. Dynamite blasting sounds
iust about the same, but in the sound
Of artillery, when one knows that it is
artillery, there seems so much the
knell of doom.
The cafe was crowded. The fat face
of the patronne was wreathed in
smiles. Anyone Is mistaken who i'm
AGNES that all northern France is lost
cloud of smoke. At any rate, in the
Cafe du Lion dor one looked upon
life unchanged True, there were
some new customers in the place of
old ones, There were half dozen
soldiers in khaki, and we of the
American ambulance column dressed
In the same cloth. In a corner sat
young lieutenant in the gorgeous blue
of the Chasseurs d'Afrique, drinking
vermouth with a grizzled captain of
artillery. Other French uniforms dot
ted the place. The honest bourgeois"
were all there-the chief supports of
the establishment in peace or war
They missed the evening aperitif dur
ing the twelve days of German occu-
patton, but now all were in their &C.
fustomed places. For the places of
bld-timers are sacred at the Lion dor,
Took Husbands Place.
Nine la Patronne acted in place Of
Der husband, who was now safely serv-
ng in the cooking department of the
hrmy, some kilometers from the firing
inc, Madame sat contentedly at the
ealsse experimenting the activities of
No youthful, inexperienced garcons.
he old walters, Jean and Andre, van
shed into the zone of military activ-
ty' on the first day Of the war, After
everal post cards Jean had not been
leard from. Andre was killed at the
Pattle of the Marine.
We had heard the garrulous tale of
be German occupation many times.
was thrillingly revealed both at the
restaurant du Commerce and the Ho-
e du Soleil. At the Lion dor it was
badame's absorbing theme when not
aranguing the new waiters-or count
hg change. Madame remained
throughout the trouble But yes, to
sure She was not the woman to
zee and leave the Lion dor to the in
aders. Her ample form was firmly
nsconced behind the caisse when the
rst Of the uhlans entered. There
ere officers, and-wonder of won
ers-they spoke French. The new
alters We're hiding in the cellar, so
Madame clambered from her chair
nth dignity and placed glasses and
INK before them. And then-would
onders never cease?-these Ger
nahs had actually paid-even over
ald ma foi-for one of them flung a
oIden half louis on the counter and
ta.ked from the place, refusing
halge
W course at the Hotel de Vile the
Vaders behaved differently. There
pe mayor was called upon for one
l!Aoh francs-war indemnity. But
pal was matter for the citys con
lA and not the individual. Madame
iI mad that golden half louis and
qua show it if we cared to see. Gold
as scarce and exceedingly precious
IL sight of it was good
unanirity Of the War.
now the Germans were gone
'ctl out grace Dieu, so the good
'']rhs no longer lived in the cellars.
eSdlii III IutIT PLATES dl lllt
~" or, slipping vermouth and offer
gratitude TO the military regime
mad the decency to allow cafes
until eight o'clock Outside the
s"s was cold and fine drizzle beat
'a"st the windows. Several new
mrs shiyered and remarked that it
rsl De terrible in the trenches. But
electrie lights, the clinking glasses
wy" marble tables, the rattlias
ins soon brought them into the gen
me OF speculation on how long it
Jug take to drive the Germans from
lance.
y hundred years the cafes have
81 'ne forum of France The Lion
mad for that entire period been
scene Of fierce verbal encounters
seh members of more political and
SOUS faiths than exist in any other
~ Of the world. Every rrenchman
matter how humble in position or
mas decided opinions about
le'alng. But now the voices in the
VI arose only in appellations
CeFnlng les Boches. There was
4'Hlty Of opinion on the absorbing