Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1922-08-31
D HARA DISCUSSES
FRENCH FOODSTUFFS
BY NEAL r.. O'HARA

| Especial Cable to The Atlant0 Journal ana
Chicago Daily News-Copysight, 1927
| PARIS.-A Frenchman's idea of
big breakfast is couple Of in
destructible rolls and cup Of indie
scribable coffee. That's all you get
to start hard days work except
at hotels that cater to Americans
and serve 'em heavy tray load.
All French coffee looks like iodine,
tastes like iodine and has the same
effect as iodine, if you drink
enough. The cream they give you
for it is SKINNED milk. The rolls
are as soft as hand grenades. All
Americans have breakfast served in
their room. You can throw the
whole meal down the sink without Of
Tending any one that way.
You wonder how Frenchman
can work all morning with nothing
but coffee and rolls wrapped away.
And when lunch time comes around
they serveplenty hors d'oeuvres to
whet the appetite. Whetting an ap-
petite that's had nothing to help it
from dawn but rolls and coffee is our
own idea of nothing at all. Still,
this skeleton meal to start off the
Ody Inlay NC Lie ISdSOII Il LdIACC
never produced an Irwin Cobb,
Big Bill Edwards or a William How
ard Taft. About the heaviest man
in France is Marshal Joffre, and he
had to go America few months
ago just to get fed right.
Mabel Norman, the film STAR
gave off an interview to the Paris
papers the other day. She told how
pleased she was to be in Paris and
to see the places Of which she had
read in the works of Dumas, Bal
FAC, Moliere, Racine Anatole
France and some more French lit
terati. The stuff read great to the
Frenchmen here, but the last time
Mabel was in the public eye she had
left her copy of the Police Gazette IN
somebody's limousine.
What makes the Parasites think
America is the land of very plenty
is to see groups of school teachers
Hopping about, living like Duchesses
and tipping like Kings. Here, as
elsewhere, the school teacher is
among the lowest paid. and the
thought that even they can come
abroad and live off the best there
is in the land makes the Frenchman
think dollars grow like weeds in
America. An American tourist can
generally spot school teacher from
the fact, that she's always taking
notes. Every time a tourist guy
spills some information, the lit
tie schoolma'am whips out an
eight-pound notebook and jots down
an item for next falls history class.
Some of them can also read wine
list and are not averse to dragging
at a cigarette. SOME Of 'em, we
said-not all of 'em.
AT Nancy, less than five hours
from Paris, they are giving>a Pas
sion play this year, but hardly an
American ever shows UP. All the
talent from the land of the free
is heading for the Passion Play at
Oberammergau. Proving once more.
that it pays to advertise.
Even the smartest dressed Pari-
sian males wear some awful collars.
The celluloid kind that yokels wear
in the u. S. A are the kind they
wear in Paris, except they're linen
here. Their ties, socks and hats are |
just as bad.
The French do their love-making
right on the street. Nothing strange
to see a twosome billing and cooling
on a bench alongside the Champs
Elysees. A swain will go down al
most any boulevard with his arm
around a sweetie, with local stops
for Il kiss. In New York., Boston
or any other civilization center,
stuff like that would start panic
and call out. the riot police. Here
nobody gives 'em second glance,
which is doubtless the reason they
step right to it. The more you see
of France the more you concede it
certainly is free country. A re-
public as is q republic: