The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1915-04-28
LATIN QUARTER
TAKEN CARE OF.
Mimi Awaits Return Of the Soldier
Artist and VIII Have Fire
Burning in the
Crate.
BLANKETS ON sKYLIGHT
Girls of the Famous Bohemian Sec
ton Of City Are Being Taken
Care of While War
Goes On.


; Goes On.
II By William G. Shepherd, United Press
STAFF Correspondent
PARIS, April 6. (By mail to New
York. )-An's well in the Latin quarter
There's plenty of coal and plenty N
eat for the hundreds of gracious little
Minis who are holding the fort in the
land of Bohemia. The Austrian CT
fcers at PrezymsI were no drawer
than these girls are. The men are
Egone but the girls are keeping the
iouarter alive and when the survivors
of the soldier-artists come trampins
back again to the Boulevard San Mich
eel. the fires win be burning in the
attic CRATES, the. home lights will be
| cleaning, and Mimi, after all these
| brave fearless days, will, at last, ind
! time to sob.
But Mimi has had her trials Only
recently the military got after her vita
q club. When the French aeroplanes
climbed into the sky the other night
to chase the big Zeppelin away. the
flyers saw a tremendous patch Of
light on the birds eye map OF Paris.
1t was Mimi. with the sky lights OF
the studio ablaze; hundreds OF Minis.
in fact. The shop keepers had cur
tanned their windows, the hotels had
suffered their French plate pales,
but Mimi mad not covered the studio
sky lights. Who wants to hurt the
Latin quarter asked Mimi 1t, be-
longs to the whole world. But the
French military men disagreed with
Minis they felt sure that Zeppelin
bomb would find its way in the Latin
quarter just as surely as in any other
district of Paris. So Mimi, obeyins
military orders, spent the next two or
three days, rigging sheets over the
studio sky lights, and the next Ger
mans who come afying over Paris,
won't be able to let the Latin quarter
90 unbombed, even II he wants to.
Its true that Mimi has some
strong arms to lean on in these lark
days; but they're only to be leaned on
not to be hug-en by.
Into the cafe du Dome, tonight,
lame whiskered young fellow Will pick
his way to a certain table. Before
long two or perhaps three chic little
girls WILL come up and greet him with
a laugh, or a playful tap on his cheek
or even tug at his whiskers and soon
a merry little party will be under wa.
Other men will come to the table.
These men won't be Frenchmen: they
will be Russians, or Americans or
Engiishmen. Pretty soon some ore
will say Let's eatir That's a signal
for the lame, whiskered chap to get
up and 60 away. He knows the girls
are going to dine well, this evening.
so his worries are ended. The girls
are the Minis of his best friends,
who have gone to the front. II they
don't eat with someone else, tonight
or any other night, they'll eat with
him, out of his little store OF money.
And when Mimi dimes. she isn't love
making. And woe TO the man Eho
makes love to her, He won't be wei
come again at the table in the cafe du
Dome. Strange arms are to lean up
on, but not to fall into.
There's laughter left in the quarter,
too. For instance, you'll hear It to-
night, and every night, In the studio
of certain Russian woman artist. She
has money, and, for twelve cents, any
girl from the Latin quarter can come
into her studio, seat herself at one OF
the long oilcloth covered tables, ami
eat good meal; IL she hasn't the
twelve cents she can eat, anyhow. And
then. after dinner ia over at night,
musicians play and sing. as they
while perhaps a hundred girls ana
men sit about and smoke and take
their coffee and dream war time
dreams OF peace.
( How many Frenchmen are there
/ fere?" I asked Dave Warschawsky, IN
this studio the Cher evening. He
/ loked over the crowd Of French girls
and variously CARRIED men and an
swered:
Just one. That lame fellow over
/ there IL French
| Tho other men were Russian,
Swede. Italian, American Mimi sat
among them and laughed and played
or moodily saw her dreams come to,
/ life in cigaret smoke while the music
sounded, but her heart was some where
along the French front.
! II Mimi has lover at the front she
receives 30 cents week from the
army. That's coffee money, at least
And then there is the Work OF the
Good Fire." charity foundation,
where for few pennies. she can buy
huge sack Of coal, ard where. II she
has no Gennies. she can get the coal
anyhow.
. Don't worry about the Latin quar-
ter. Mr.. World. Mimi is taking care
OF It,