Arizona republican. [volume] (Phoenix, Ariz.) 1890-1930, 1918-12-29

reau, and in a moment faced bearded
and dignified Frenchman. l explained
the situation in my best French, ana
he bowed very cordially saying; Mon
cher ami. Vous eteS American, prenez
la Voiture ct la maiSon auSSl 81 Fous
voulez Vous pouveZ avoir tout &c aui
IA appartient." my dear friend, you
are an American. take my wagon ana
the house too if you want TO- Iou may
have all that Is mine). Ana so, the
crowd OF rosterprS joy6usly bade NE
goodbye and I departed with my recov-
cred hea6sear and they went on their
wsv hilaricusiy. | am bound 70 say,
that | was relieved, for | think that
sooner or later they must have come to
grief. This girl leading the hand had
very large flag on pole perhaps three
metres long and she made 1t a prac-
tice of knocking off every hat that she
could reach among the pedestrians, and
she seemed to have quite a reach. 1t
was ludicrous to see the look of aston
ishment that would come over the face
of some dignified gentleman when his
silk bell-topper would 90 flying in the
air She showed no partially. and sew
eral agents willie lost their hats also,
but they made no remonsuance, only
one went so far as 10 even snake MS
head. She really as AN expert at hat-
lifting if that is what you would call
il. for | think that she flipPed about
one every thirty seconds, the incident
always being followed by a roar OIL
laughter from the crowd around the
unfortunate victim
There were parades of all kinds and
character. Parades of different army
groups. perhaps the most INTERESTING
professions were those of the blesses
Groups of wounded poilus, who had
been able to get out of the hospitals IN
some way or another, who moved slow
ly by on the arms of their wives and
sWeethearts. There were many of those
! little bands. | saw one composed or
/ several hundreds; and however boiStI-
Gus the crowd might be, there was al
ways a hush while they went by. Dur
| ing the 18th and the 18th also | saw a
one armed singer going up and down
the Boulevard. and stopping in various
places to lead the singing Of national
airs. He had a beautiful voice, and stni
looked the soldier in spite of his miss
ing arm, he always created tremendous
enthusiasm. Then there were chill
/ dren's parades from the various schools.
church societies, and civic societies, the
AlSatians and the Lorrainers, all in a
more or less disorganzed way got out
in the streets to have their part in the
joy.
1t is needless to say that the streets
made a wonderfully picturesque APP
pearance; even in the French army
there is a wide variety of handsome
uniforms to distinguish the various
branches of the service but when you
add to this, groups from the armies and
naVles of all the allies, and the various
uniforms of women workers, YOU have
a scene of color and variation in cos
tune that is almost impossible to de-
scribe. Men in Turkish costume from
one of the French colonies Arabs, In.
dams in the British army, negroes n
all of the armies, added interest to tn,
scene. For three days the procession.
were continuous and endless for one
group would be Immediately followed
oy another on all the great boulevards
some OF the very simplest of trick:
caused tremendous amusement. ar
american soldier found an old shoe ne
was followed by shouts Of laughte
Wherever he went greeting one lady O
another to inquire whether or not the,
mad lost their shoe? | cannot tell vol
now T<ny cannons and other Gerrna
war implements l saw dragged abou
/. the streets.
-" mat nave come back to Pari
after week, l cannot help but re
mark now quietly and earnestly every
one mas settled down to their wor
as before. So far as work is concern
ed, you might think that the war ha
! oeen over for a generation, althoug
.. you are continually reminded of if
existence by the visible signs befor
you For instance: sand bags an
concrete still protect many Of III
beautiful works of art in the Pari
streets and parks.
farls has beautiful equestria
, statue of Edward VII. and I happene
10 pass it on the morning of Nov. !
| l am quite sure that the face ha
| changed expression in the last fer
Gays, for there certainly is a smil
I there now that I never saw before. an
' l could not help but recall that morn
' ing, with the fate of the kaiser In m
r mind, the word of kingly Edward whe
g ne said: You know, my nephew. Wi
l nam, is a wicked poltroon.' One ,
: the last incidents in the celebratio
e was my meeting with an America
1 soidler on tuesday morning the 18th
E ne looked rather forlorn, and | coul
not help inquiring whether I could d
/ SAAf IOI MIN. 1drQn6r, VIC
could do about a million things fl
= me, but if you can give me SON
breakfast first I'd appreciate it. I %
J, into Paris yesterday morning and BILE
, IN all my money on this show and
> have had nothing to eat. the thins
did | hate to tell and 7 hope va
, won't ask me-" Well, didn't, I toe
v nm in, managed to get an omelette fl
4 him with bread and butter and coffe
t and he waded into it; as he ate
+ listened TO his story. You see. partn,
$ I'm not just used to Paris. it's nv fir
t time here. | come from Darty, Obi
a that's in Champagne county, there's
grocery store there and that's all
V man might go there and spend thr.
= hours and it would be a curiosity
e see it, but for a lifetime there, we
d when the war broke out broke loos
Y You see, to get there, you take Il
n Pan handle railroad, and you ride
> far as you can up to Salem, and the
y you get off and drive the old hor
n back up through the hills. between Il
u cornfields and the pastures. until W
get just as far as you can go and VI
y are at Darty. Along in November til
. time o the year, they sit round Ii
:, old iron stove in the store, borrow t
9 bacco from some unlucky strange
>, spit juice all over the stove, and ca
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