Evening star., 1919-12-18
TIGERS READY
WIT IS RECALLED
CIemenceau's Friends Say He
Wed Girl Who Wept So
CharmingIy.
BY HERBERT COREY.

NEW YORK, December 16.-The
visit to America of the daughter of
Premier Clemenceau of France has
first wife was an American girl She
was Miss Mary Piumer of North san
bornton. N. H., who was one of his
pupils in a class he then conducted
in a seminary for young ladies. NJ
Clemenceau was never of lynn
phatic disposition. When his young
ladies seemed to him to pass the for
givable bounds of stupidity he rated
them in his volcanic English -French.
The members of the American peace
with the premier of France are able
to testify that his wit not only gilt
ters. but it cuts.
'Often the young ladies of his class
ceau's friends in Paris. They go on
to quote him as saying of the young
lady who later became his bride:
when Miss Piumer wept she was
wholly charming. So I married her.
Our friends. the French; ,aT are witty
During their married life Nine.
Clemenceau retained her charm"
Predicts High Prices.
One of the foremost sIausticians of
the Wall street diStrict-it would
hardly be going too far to call him
the foremost statistician-eXplaln
the mechanics of high prices in
fashion that any one can understand:
Before the war there were $S,0OO.-
600, 900 in paper money in circulation
During the war the belligerent gov
ernments issued $40. 900, 100000. Since
the armistice $1,000. 100000 more have
been printed.
prices rise with the increase in
the supply of the circulation medium.
That is thoroughly understood by
every one.
I'm addition to the orgy of print.
the beiligerent governments-bondss
and the like-have been increased
from the before-the-war sum OF
SAC, ZOO. 100000, to the present-day
total of s250,0o0. 100000: The hold
ers are able to take such obligations
to their banks and borrow money on
them. So that this amounts to FUR
ther expansion of credit:
"These bonds must be paid off
some time-by the issuing govern
tempt to withdraw a portion of the
money now in circulation would rem
der the remaining money more Valua-
able-thereby lowering prices-and
therefore increase the difficulty of
paying of the bonds. So that it is
not to the interest Of any government
to do away with the present-day in
flation of money and prices.
my conclusion is that we shall
have high prices for number of
years-perhaps during the life of the
present generation.
Women and Public Smoking.
Some one saw a young lady walk
ing on 44th street and putting at
cigarette the other day. And SO there
was a first page story about her. And
poor old Europe was blamed.
"She was not disturbed by the re-
marks of those who observed this
latest fashion imported from Europe
wrote the reporter.
Bunk! Likewise, bosh! Also bush
wah. Because they do not do thei'
smoking on the streets in Europe:
About as much liberty is permitted
at the corner on which the Cafe
Ia Pafx stands in Paris as anywher'
in France, but if a young woman
tried to walk around that corne'
with a cigarette in her mouth th'
gendarmes would have a few bitter
words to speak to her. In London
the boobies on the Strand would not
for a minute permit street smokins
by members of the fair sex. Not even
Berlin-whose ideas of liberty are ex-
traordinarily broad just now-would
let a putting fraulein march down
Inter den Linden
Not so many women smoke in pub
lie in Europe as in these United
States There is a reason for that.
too, Not SO many can afford to.