The Daily Missoulian. [volume] (Missoula, Mont.) 1904-1961, 1917-07-23
YANKEE SOLDIERS GRIP
PARIS WELCOMING HAND
Special Writer for Chicago
News Describes Present
Life in France.
GLOOM NOT ALLOWED
Unlike London, French Cap
ital Needs Bright Colors
I and Gay Life.
GLOOM NOT ALLOWED

They're always ready with the glad
hand" said an American bluejacket as
he Joined dozen comrades at the tree
shaded stables on the sidewalk outside
a Montparnasse cafe" writes Junius
3. Wood from Paris in the Chicago
News.
You bet!" echoed in broken Eng
lish a sailor in a French uniform, one
| of the party.
A toddling French infant clutchcd a
finger of the American with one hand
and chung to the skirts of its mother. a
Lively Frenchwoman. with the other,
and then clalnbered on the knee OF the
sailor. This was one of the picturesque
groups around the tables.
Paris Needs Gay colors.
American uniforms of blue and
, khaki added a gay kaleidoscope of
, colors to Paris In wartime: for Paris,
with all the grimness of war almost at
| it's gates, cannot live without some
gayety. Paris is the playground. the
respite the soldier gets from the stalk
! ing death in the trenches. Khaki uni
forms Of Belgians, British colonials
from Canada, Australia and New Ze;l-
land minEle in the cafes and on the
boulevards with the grays. reds and
blue of the French. home for what may
! be the last whirl of pleasure.
| In almost every merry party Is q
hero who has sacrificed an arm or
who walks with a cane or with
clutches or has Il leg missing and has
the stump lying across chair or. be-
/ ing sightlcss, is guided by faithful
! friend. The man who takes your ticket
at the railroad gate or shows you to
your seat in the hotel dining room
probably wears on his breast q cross
for which he paid with an empty
f, sleeve or has an artificial leg. That
head waiter is exceptional who has moi
at least one medal pinned to his coat
| The man at my hotel has three.
| Despite the ever present evidence OF
the awful price the nation Is paying
in lives in it's fight for world freedom
Paris is cheerful. London has the
same sights, but London is grim and
gloomy.
Paris and it's people are more like
Chicago. In most American cities there
is the same hospitality, the ready ac-
| CeDtInCe OF lHc SllduScFs W WHOlu al
served good food. Tuesdays and Fri.
days are meatless and hot water may
be obtained in the hotels only on Sat
Erdays and Sundays, and the cafes
close at $50 p. m. but the supply O
cheese and red and white wines i.
abundant.
Aside from the American aviator
and hospital and ambulance corp.
here, long considered fixtures. the Of
ficcrs and orderlies of General Per
shing's headquarters only are wearing
our khaki. They made q fine impress
, sion. from the general down to tn
privates, because of their deportmen
in public ana their busincsslikc meth
DDS in office. France Is neat at al
times and the trim American uniform
find favor. Newspaper correspond
ents accredited to the army must wea
the officers uniform down to tn
, smallest detail, with an added dar
, green brassard on the arm. denotin
, their business. Major Frederick Pal
mcr. chief censor attached to the in
telligcncc staff in charge of the CORE
= spondents, is arranging for a chatea
where they will live.