The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1919-08-17
GrimSpectres.Now
r ady TO Rise
Against AlrThings
Teutonic, Bespeak
Greater and More
Lasting Bitter
ness Than F OIL
lowed 1870
Q srralse aE,.'s..
By STERLING HEILIG.

PARIS, July II, lS1S.
r CAN tell you what they say VIII
happen to the first German busi-
i ness house that sets up again. as
German, In the centre of Paris.
A woman in black will be seen stroll
ing back and forth in front Of the es-
adjustment. She will say nothing;
but no French citizen can enter those
German doors without seeing her. Her
her looks more SO.
Can the French Government stop
such picketing?
The woman in black. at need. they
say, will stay only ten minutes, ex-
planning to the policeman: "I am wait
ing for friend" or Il am looking at
the goods in the window" Another
woman in black VIII arrive, by chance.
on time to replace her. And so on. A
powerful society of French women,
they say, has perfected this plan with
singleminded bitterness-so that 1t will
require scarcely half an hour per week
or month Of the time of each.
Never a cry or an Indictment to vio-
lence.
But the woman in black viii be
therel
No Service for Them.
At the Grand Cafe I asked Adolphe:
How will you treat the first German
tourists?" Wont treat them!" an
swered Adolpha Georges. Cadet and
Henri nodded grinly. -Neanti-with-
out movement" was their elucidation;
Rrannh ,ix,oln,k -, ssAyo&hsx. Aal~~ %
No words. no gesture-but no service.
The patronne GLOSSY can wait on Ger
mans If she wants to-" Each of these
men put in four years at the front.
"Win You rent to Germans2' asked
tho real estate man OF French insur-
ance company. moi" he Kissed. my
child was killed by Gothas."
How long win this sort OF thing last :?
When came to Paris In 1891 I had
first travelled in Germany and made
some German acquaintances. Later,
when one came to Paris. went about
with him At the palatial Pousse,
Brasserie belgian Taverne, they
called 1t. Bavarian beer having come
in strongly with the Exposition of
1889 we were talking in German
why not, over German beer. sold and
drunk by French folks. Nevertheless
at that late dato (in 1897 a waiter IN
terrupted us politely: VIII the mes
sieurs have the bounty to cease speak
ing German? 1t contraries our pub
lic."
1t was twenty years after the
Franco-Prussian war of 1870 that such
thing could happen. Twenty years
later still, in the spring OF 1914 (when
nobody in France dreamed of a new
war;, / was so struck by the changed
situation in my own time that under
took an investigation OF German pros.
perity in Paris.
1t began at Spiess's Vienna restau-
rant, the highest class German public
place in the French capital, much FIRE.
quented by Parisians by reason of curl.
osity about German wines and cook.
ery-and tho first establishment
wrecked on mobilization night in Au-
gust. 1914.
French Dreaded an "Incidenf."
those happy days just before the war
We We're vaguely watching two beau
tiful German tourist girls amid theil
parties, which contained three younl
German men agog 80 show of. The
German language was all over the
Lace; and. flushed with burgundy. tho
three good German boys began fiinginl
words like "welsches" and "bildung
schwlndel" at a modest Frenchman
eating duck and stewed fruit as for
c.gn treat-with difficulty.
Now. wen see an incident" sale
an American friend, a newcomer. Blu
not French eye was lifted, not {
French voice answered-such was thu
French dread to start an incident" II
those days of Saverne: and yet WI
hnow-the world knows, now-theil
courage.
Such was German prestige IN 1914
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