The Washington times., 1922-03-26

The majority of cafes in Paris,
Of course, are open to the street,
but a few have yelled their win
dows, and now the police want 70
know why.
Just to make things cosy and
homelike." say the proprietors.
Hardly good enough" reply the
police. You must take down your
curtains, for when we pass we want
to see inside" g.
RRIDEGROOMS who arrive late
for the marriage ceremony
have been giving priests in many
churches in Paris quite a lot Of
trouble just recently, and IN one
fashionable church the priest has
been led to adopt measures to in
sure the arrival Of prospective hus-
bands on time.
Thus 1t was that when 4 bride.
groom arrived at the church q
quarter Of an hour late the other
day. he found the service had al.
ready begun. and he had the hu.
initiation Of having to walk up the
aisle in view of everyone-the
bridegroom who was late.
This treatment, I understand, il
having the desired effect.
MOST of the pretty girls in
Paris are typists nowadays,
it seems, from the occupations Of
the twenty beauty queens Of the
gay city. who have now a, been
elected.
One Is a manneo uin, one . no
diste, one a jewelry worker sever
are shop girls, but no lie thIs
ten are typists.
At one time the ses mistress
and the laundry girl took the
palm, but today the pre- %
the girls turn up their noses ~
these occupations. 1t is more Cr1-
teel to type. and, beside. -
typewriter the fair Parish Ne can
keep her hands as white and
dainty as those Of the ladies for
whom at one time she used to
sew in the workrooms Of the Rue
de la Paix.
HAVE just heard a character
istic lite story of Pearl
White, who is enjoying her stay
in the capital to the hllt.
Despite the fact that she il q
cinema star herself. Pearl enjoys
an evening at the pictures" as
much as anyone else. The other
evening she paid a visit to a film
heater in Montmartre. where she
found hanging in the vestibuls a
picture Of her Apsrl,l'rg self.
Bu, tbs picture disr'eaAeS Trerl.
Tin not 4 bit hHe that she &r-
ciarsi, and the rna aas.r strs.isnt-
way took the offending portrait
down from the wall.
Next day. howover, Nc -vraivec
a portrait of Pearl radian, IN ono
Of her most pearly smiles. She
had sent it herself, and 1t now
hangs in the place of the dis
pleasing picture.
WHAT a night 1t was at the
fancy dress ball held by the
Paris cinema world at that famous
Montmartre rendezvous, the
Moulin Rouge.
For sheer grotesqueness Of cos.
tune l have never seen anything
like it, The idea of the whole
thing was that the dancers were
visitors from the planet Mars, and
everyone let fancy run wild In
presenting a conception of Mar.
tian anatomy and costume.
Heads and eyes appeared in the
most unexpected places of the
dancers bodies, and some evi.
IDENTIFY were of the opinion that
morals in Mars demanded little, II
any, drariUE q. the corporate
forms.
1t wa nearly usyixD' s.to!s
the reveisrs took tteir tI4is nsci
to Mart
MADI.GkAS, me sS' fs-. -
fore Lent. IL over, and now
all good Parisians are supposed to
be serious and sedate until the Mi
Careme, when for one mad day
they give full vent to pent-up mer-
riment in tho most popular carni-
va! Of the year.
But Mardi Gras vss hAz-dly 50
gay a. usual this year. Few Of the
big establishments clossd their
doors. and only the night was ssy.
with the new fsts days addsd to
the calendar In recent years. many
people are inclined to think that
Paris 10 Estting too many merry.
n,skings. but that they should be
robbed Of Mnrdi-0ra u taken ~ .
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