Putnam patriot., 1921-11-11

An American lady went 10 dinner Nish 1s a night or tWo after we ar r7Fed iu France She had been in Paas for several weeks and ass fall of her observations of the French and of Paris two years after the var We. . just arrived, were equally full of i'm ! pressions. Two years before zc had Jeff Paris month after the slguing Of the Treaty Paris still teeming WIth the uniforms Of the Aiiies. stIii somewhat intoxicated ~ith peace and victory, stiii dancing and gay and crowded We had come back 10 a diff. ferent PaHs lt 3as not 9he Gay PaHee" Of pEe-g.sr days. not lae Paris of @ar days. or after -the-Armistice day l. 0.az Paris two years after the sar.-tired, weary, worried. quiet and spiritless. l. was someone else Kha had remarked that it Was a city where the funeral Of some great per con seemed to have Just taken place
 Wait sad the lady, wat untiI yea have seen the grave of The Un- kno0n"
 And thstis how t was that yse went first at midnight to zee the grave of The Unknown Soldier beneath the Arc de Tiomphe
 Now. dear reader. f you are one of those precious people who can and do seal your feelings in glass jars and cal the majority Of human emotions by the names of Tish and Tosh. please do not read any more for this im- precision is an emotional impression, one Of the symbolism of the death and the honor done 10 a simple hero on whom is being outpoured daily the emotions of a great and splendid na- tion.
 You have read undoubtedly. about The Unknown Soldier. chosen from the trenches along the French Front and brought 10 Paris for interment on the anniversary of the Armistiee last November And as the same cere- mony was being performed on the heights of the Champs Elysees in Par is 10 an unknown British Warrior England led by the King, Was ae- c9rdiBq the same h9Hor- ia London From all the thou ands and hundreds of thousands of levelled tanks of those Sho were the youth Of the de5 aae seven years ago these t~o uu known. mysterious heroes were the zeIested zYnboi of fHe sacrifice In the world most eha>tig ar
 II you have ever been iu Paris you aiII recall sisdig fhs Are de Tfiz amphe at midnight. that great bulky crown of the Etoile saith its eacirclIng hFhts from which stretch away the twelve great avenues of Pafis. l. was moonlight oH tai= particular night
 moonlight in February, m unpreees dented thing since February In France has long been sacHedly conseerated to fog and ram and the deep dauk chill of the French winter But this was moon that eontended tenaciously with the long white lights Of the avenues and blazing rose lights of the Boule- wards
 And as we walked the Champs klHsees beneath the Arch moonlight and rose light fell upon the bank of floral offerings renewed each day by those whose sons. husbands and broth CTS lie somewhere m France among the unknown and whose son, husband or brother may be The Unknown who lies beneath Napoleon's Arch. There are the wreaths of ambassadors. the simple mimosa and anemones of the poor, the great floral banks of offer ings from brothers in arms and palm leaves of foreign rulers and kings, and ali of these rest at the head of a sim pie grave, yet grave whose impress siveness and whose symbolism throws into vast shadow the ornate tomb of the great Emperor himself beneath the dome of lnvalides a bare mile or 70 away in the moonlight
 Then one looks within the protect ing rail and there under the great swing of the Arch one reads carved in the plain granite slab the simple words