Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1905-1919, 1917-08-27
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Paris Quiet; Few Men Left,

to much.
Paris Quiet; Few Men Left.
The war has quieted Paris down be-
cause of so many men gone to the
front. Many women are employed on
the street cars, subways, in stores, col
lectors, inspectors, etc.
| 1t is great sight to see airplanes
flying at night, because they signal
with various colored lights.
The French have many customs that
to me are queer. The children all
wear a black dress or apron which
reaches from the chin to the knees
and opens down the back. Many of
the wagons are two-wheeled dixie a
carD. Sometimes the horses are
hitched in tandem instead OF in teams
Many people ride bicycles that are
equipped with small steel rims and
brake on both wheels. These b-akes
are operated by levers beneath the
handlebar grips. The taxicabs are one
or maybe two-cylinder affairs that
couldn't possibly pull Eleventh street,
Walnut to Grand
Telephone Service Is Punk"
! Nobody drinks water. They prefer
this bitter wine or a liquid known as
coco. There isn't one native born
Frenchman in hundred that can use
the telephone, because the service is
so punk. They talk so fast that you
might just as well walk or take cab
to transact your business.
Everybody expects tip. Taxi driver,
waiter, barber etc. In fact, they just
add a tip on the regular price and
tell you your bill. Everybody is what
we call "moocher." Give me a
I Is..e 10 eyf, hfg rfx,a
that. 1t is always gimme"
LuXuries are cheap, because there is
little demand for them and the mer-
chants cut the price to sell out. | can
get a Graflex regular s160 for about
$50 to $50. Candy, cakes and Ameri-
can tobacco are out of sight A Is
cent package of cigarettes sells for 46
cents American money over here.
Cheapest candy is 80 cents per pound,
and punk at that. Luckily my supply
of tobacco will hold out two weeks
longer anyway, and the sweets | don't
miss n bit. My expenses are nothing.
No board or room; good food. good
bed. electric hight. bath, etc, so I'm
not suffering.
Quit worrying, Gee. II you were
here you'd stay yourself, too. | can say
a few things in French and see many
a place where the soldiers convalesce;
they don't swarm in here all shot up.
They are treated in a field hospital
and then come here to recuperate and
let their wounds heal. They can han
die about 1900 to 1900, and only
forty or fifty come and go every day,
so the percentage that come is small.
Climate Like That at ScashOrc
AS whole the French people are
very agreeable, because it is very sell
dom that you meet a grouchy person
Always happy and greet you with
"Bonjour, Monsieur" which means
good morning" or good day, sir"
The climate here is delightful, be-
cause the days are bright and 1t never
gets hot, while at night it gets cool
just like near the seashore. At night.
too, things seem so quiet.
! The Paris fire trucks are equipped
with regular American siren whistles.
so that when / hear one at night II
sounds just as If it were at Twenty
sixth and Prospect, starting out. and
of course ! have to get up and poke
my head out the window Just to see
If l can see or smell any fire.
Many of the wounded men make
all kinds of little things; baskets,
brlquet pronounced bric-cay), which
is cigar lighter made from rifle
shells. all kinds OF doilies and tapes.
tries. rings and fobs carved from soft
metal, usually a piece of aluminium.
They take raffia. or this long grass,
or else some small rope and make the
soles for slippers by braiding 1t around
and around. 1t makes real good soles,
too.