East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1921-02-21
PARIS LOSES HEROLD
TRADITIONAL GAIETY
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II Editors Note:-E. w. Hullinger of
the Paris Bureau of the United Press
has Just arrived in New York on a
short leave of absence. He has writ
ten timely view of the Paris of to-
day.
4 NEW YORK, Feb. 21.--When by
\ government edict an engineer pressed
q button New Years eve and flooded
Paris for the first time since the war
with her old pre-war electrical brill
lance, the orchestras on the boule-
wards and the Montmartre fairly burst
themselves trying to do justice to the
occasion and champagne corks pop
ped as they had never popped since
1914.
Taxis honking on the streets outside
took mp the refrain and students in
the Latin quarter went singing in SER
petines around the lampposts-just as
they did before the war.
At that moment Paris from the
standpoint Of surface appearance once
more became the gay old city Of tra-
dition.
But in the real sense. it was not the
same Paris. 1t was a new Paris. go
ing through many of the habitual ges-
lures of the old,
Old Paris Conc.
For the old Paris, as hundreds of
thousands, of American tourists and
students knew it and loved it. is gone
gone for a generation, at least. The
war changed the people who made
Paris Paris, and not until these peo-
pie are gone and aonthera generation
has taken their place can the old
pleasure capital be herself.
Physically Paris has completed her
reversio to 1914. Menus are no long
er stinted. The wine caves are full.
The guides of the night" are back
On the Place de rOpera with their
most interesting show around the
corner" The boulevards are fragrant
with femininity. So far as the Cooks
tourist knows, it's the sane old city
revived.
But the "Old Timer" knows that the
people he sees are different from his
cronies of 1914. and frequently even
new type of F'renchman altogether.
First, the H. C. of L. has lifted the
price scale between three and four
hundred per cent. Parisians who n
1914. could afford to dine with their
fsirilies in the cafe, no longer people
the boulevard restaurants, Their
places have been taken by newly-rich
and foreigners with high exchange
rates F
Longchamps, where Frances elite
used to display its finest gowns, has
been virtually boycotted by the real
aristocracy. The only fashion show
there is at the races now kept up by
flashy "parvenues, or women of easy
fortune.
War Changes People.
The war worked a remarkable psy-
Geological change in the French peo-
pie. 1t made them a nation of stoics.
while the glamour of the trade on
foreign soil unlocked the emotions of
the British and turned staid London
into one of the most demonstrative
cities in the world, the long years of
trench warfare. midst the mud OF their
own country. amid the ruins of their
own homes. developed in the French
nan a logged self-restraint that he
had never been thought capable Of
Hundreds of thousands wept in
White Hall on Armistice Day. Paris
crowds looked on in almost express
sionless silence. as their unknown
Poilu was escorted to the Arc. AM
ong the multitudes who deposited
wreaths do not remember seeing one
shedding tears f.sg@f4 r8s
This new mentality has seized the
So