The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1922-12-20
DAILY NEWS LETTER
AMERICANS PURCHASE
 LAFAYETTE'S BIRTHPLACE.
By ALICE IIANGLIER
 International News Service Staff Cor r.fASrnnrndealf

By ALICE LANGLIER,
 international News Service Staff Cor Paris, Dec. 20-Lafayette, here we are-again! The chateau of Chs vignac (Haute Loire), the birthpIac ce Of the great Hhexator, has just be- Americans who are transforming it into a handsome country club. The location is an ideal one, on a high point with plenty of fresh air. There course and shady hooks and gardens where good Americans may repose themselves and dream of their great hero who first saw the light in this spot.
 Going down! Going down-It's the birthrate of France which is caus- ing alarm; According to statistics 10 per cent. lower than at the cor responding period last year. There were 6,911 fewer births in the ten largest cities of France in the period rom January to September Paros T course claims the most babies and Aarseff1es next.
 Isn't it enough to make your mouth water? Doctor Mucier, Director of the Assistance Pubique, believes that good wine is a fine thing for con- ya1escents and has consequently or dered for the first semester of the
 ear 1923, 3O,OOO gallons of excellent win rouge of "perfect nature" 5000 2allons of win blanc, in the same con- ditiOn. 1000 gallons of sweet red wine tnaturel," and 10000 one-half bottles packed in cases of fffty-aIl this for people lon the road to recovery"
 Let the dog do it A butcher in the rue St. Charles noticed that he was . few steaks missing every day or so and set detective to watch for the thief. He installed himself under the large cloth of the table and watched for business. It was not lCng before a little poodle sidled up to the shop and looked about to re- assure himself that no one was look ing stood up on his hind legs and, seizing a nice juicy steak made off with it at a good pace. The detec- tive followed him until he trotted up to the door of a second-story apartment, scratched at it and an old W oman greeted him with open arms She will be prosecuted.
 How many real Parisians in Paris?, asks L'Avenir. There are not as many as there are New Workers in New York. The Parisians numbers are growing smaller, according to the than one-third of the total population Of the capital Country folk from the Auvergne and Savoie districts head the list They are the famous
 <ANiN Sl S4iedtS NIlO Ie%lh "4lIl an anus ing accent which is initiated in all, the music halls. The men have long black mustaches that curl to points They make handsome policemen Be- fore the war the Germans were more than 26,O00 strong in Paris and the Swiss almost as many. Italians num- bered 10000 and Russians 10000. Now the steady influx of North and South Americans, Spaniards and peo- Cle from Central Europe has just about replaced the Germans who were here before 1914.
 We're on our way to America" said two little boys who were found fast asle6p in a little railway station near the Forest of St. Germain They had started to walk to Le Havre on their way to New York but were over come by hunger and fatigue
 Thirsty Americans will not be able 70. drown their sorrows in imitation absinthe the next time they pay a visit to France. By a law passed in July. 1922. the manufacture and sale