The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1922-10-02

Rernhardt has returned from her summer home to Paris where she is hard at work on a new play Adam and Eve,' by Sacha Guitry. Lucien Gultry will appear as Adam
 "A country lacking in children is always overrun with cats" complains Le Petit Journal in an editorial re- gretting that the tens of thousands of Paris cats testify to the necessity of an outlet for tend erness which should be given to children.
 The Chamber of Deputies is the great sounding board of French po- htical gossip. and the rumors which are SC persistent in it's railways are not always to be taken too seriously. However. the sheer force of frequent repetition has made Poincarists un- easy, for it has declared that Poin- care will not be able to survive the budget crisis next month The politi- nians are busy drawing up slates of ministries to succeed Poincare.
 Military circles are chuckling over Marshal Joffre's forgetting the anni- versary of his great victory on the Marne. He completely forgot the ments which prevented him from at tending the Marne Day ceremonies in his honor
 The man who claims to be the old est living human being in the world was unfeelingly carted away to a hos p1taI pit for the insane. In the village or Montreuil- -Bois a barefooted, oareheaded old man. clad only in loose shirt and pair of trousers, frightened the women returning from peering searchingly into their faces
 What do you want?" the gen. darmes asked threateningly.
 'I am searching for Jeanne d'Arc, monsieur, feebly replied the old man.
 "Jearne d'Arc?"
 ,"oui, monsieur .out. Jeanne d'Arc, whom I knew so long ago and who led me into battle''
 Kindly, but firmly, Joan of Arcs last legtonary was led to the nearby hospital.
 European propagandists love to portray America as a country suf- locating under a burden of gold The project to melt our surplus eoId b1,I1 non 1nno statue to be placed on a high column surrounded by high ten- sion wires was enthusiastically re- ce1ved by the anti, American propa- gandists. who used it to prove that America is living in an orgy of lux ury.
 'She will make music wherever she goes'-for the fashionable Parisienne powders her nose to music. Newest Io,yi powder h. receptacles are really little forth melodies soon as the cover Is removed. Some play classical airs ana serious ones, but the seller in one of the large perfume shops where they are on sale says that every other woman asks for the lone with the jazZband music"
 Police are suspicious now of cafes that adorn their little tables with vases full of flowers. Recently a raid was made on such cafe A clumsy gendarme upset a flower vase and out tumbled bits of folded paper. They proved to be written bets on horse races waiting to be collected bv a bookmaker. Betting by bookmak- ing is Illegal in France.
 Military manoeuvres. the first se- rious ones since the war, are the or press reports progress of the "blues' against the reds" and the advances, retreats taking of hills, and surren- derins of town reminds one unpIeas- antly of war conr1nuniQues Two groups take these reports equally se- rtously. Those who realize the play war is preparation for real war, and those who have to get up at five o'clock in the morning to build trenches for sham attacks.
 Tn the natural course of events a new class will be called to the colors is being made that this is the day before Armistice Day Let the boys have the holiday at home before their barracks life commences" write sev- eral persons to the newspapers. It is thought likely that the date will be moved up to November 12, cutting two days off a long year and a half.