The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1918-06-29

genius for painting and poetry before
the war broke out and his collections
Of sketches and poems Of the battle
fields probably will be listed among
the valuable collections of the war.
ever, the inventor of the gown found
no ordinary color exactly to his
mind.
He did not wish one Of his clients,
in the semi -obSCurity OF a cave to
be mistaken for a sack Of potatoes,
nor yet to be trOdden on by an eX-
cited new arrival. He sought color
which should be neutral and yet
outstanding, and he found 1t in a
tint he called "chaudron," the iden-
tifcation Of which l shall have to
leave to the experts.
It must be very nice color,
however. If you should have to hide
in a coal cellar. 1t was said, the
your appearance, but will paint
your cellar gown with lovely Rem
strandt effects. Morec-'er, the hood
OF this robe au Chaudron is lined
with SOME soft, tender color. which
will lend beauty to the countenance
Of the wearer, and presumably
make the cold and discomfort easier
to endure.
Laugh at Germans.
I never descended to the caves
during the air raid. preferring to
take my chances on a lower floor.
But if l did feel constrained to seek
g. wine cave or q coal cellar while
boche bombs were hurting through
the atmosphere, I admit I might
like to wear something becoming.
Anyhow, as long as the French go
on making their Lives beautiful in
spite Of air raids and guns that
shoot 70 miles, in spite Of devastat-
ing German hordes in the north and
a war that shows no signs OF abat-
ing, I think they prove themselves
bad to beat, and allies we ought to
be proud to claim
Another thing l admired in the
French was their constant sense of
humor. They laughed at the Ger
mans. The big gun, full Of tragedy
as 1t was, furnished a subject Of
jest.
The carboonists drew caricatures
of it that were full of wit. When
one Of the guns burst, killing, as it
must have, a number OF German
gunners, a cartoonist pictured the
inventor pointing to a miscellaneous
collection Of arms and legs which
decorated the landscape, saying
proudly: You see. super-coaonel.
how kolossaly powerful my kanon
Is. 1t is as deadly at one end as it
is at the other!" The Par1stans
found this irresistibly comic.
German Lies Funny.
Most Of all they laughed at the
solemn lies published in the German
papers regarding the alleged panic
their bombardmentI was creating. /
have seen men and women sitting
outside the cafes in the Rue Royal
and on the boulevards, slipping their
apei tits before dinner and enjoying
these Congregations, as reprinted in
the Paris papers.
They smiled and chuckled over
the news announced dn The Stutt-
CART "Neues Tageblatt" that Paris
would soon be a mass OF ruins, That
even the working class population
no longer had the hardt1aood to re-
main. The roads leading to Tours,
Orleans, Lyons, cities of the south,
were crowded with interminable
conveys, vehicles drawn ny horses,
donkeys and even dogs. Sick wom-
carriages. The forest of Fontaine-
bleau was one vast camp of ref
ugeas.
Listen then to this, mon vieux,"
reads a highly diverted Frenchman,
to his neighbor at the next table.
'Tt is not only from fear Of the Ger
mans that the entire population lis
in flight, but 1T Is from fear Of the
French themselves. The capital is
flied with deserving soldiers and
other disaffected persons who wait
only q favorable opportunity to
overthrow the government Do you
hear? The Berliner Tageblatt says
So"
Why Not Lauah7 !
Funniest Of all to the Parisians
were the tales of how the whole of
Paris not fleeing to the south were
living day and might underground.
and how not only people but all
public monuments were being sent
to the caves.
A cartoon in 'sI4eMatin," I think it
was, represented a F'renchman re-
marking to a friend that the fog was
so thick yesterday that he couldn't
see the EiffeI tower. "Oh, haven't
you heard?" exclaims the other,
''Clemenceau has hidden it in the
Metro" #t w..
I write this also to give the Amer
lean people an idea of the fantastic
news" with wrich the Germans
feed their people and keep alive In
them the hope that they can u1ti-
mately win this war. Some OF these
German dispatches appear in our
own newspapers, exaggerated ac-
counts Of victories, absurd estimates
of damage inflicted by pombard-
ments. We should laugh at them as
the French do.
The Germans tell their hungry
that terror is winning
the war, that the French civil popu-
lation Is in flight and that the goy-
eminent IS tottering It is ridicul- |
ously untrue Many people have left
Paris just as our people would seek
refuge from like situation.
AL the people who have summer
homes have gone to them earlier
than usual. There Is a systematic
movement to take as many children
as possible ol6tside the danger zone. |
Dslicate women and inyaIids have
generally gone. That is ALL