The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1922-10-26
DAILY NEWS LETTER
PARIS SOON TO HAVE
 MOSQUE WHERE ARABS LOOK TOWARD MECCA
By ALICE I4ANGELIER International News Service Staff Cor.


 1 respondent
 Paris, Oct. 26.-Paris will soon have its first mosque. The ground
 was broken last March and now Mar 1 shal Lyautey is awaited to lay the | cornerstone.
 The mosque will be essentially Arab, place for prayers and media l tion and from the tall minaret the 1 muezzin will call his faithful together at regular intervals of the day. The
 surrounding gardens with fountains and basins, the different rooms with frescoes, carpets and mosaics will be carried out in the same style by dec- orators from Fez, Mecknes and Mar | rakeoh. Around the mosque will be the hamman, the house of the high
 priest, the room for ablutfons and a guest house built like a caravanserat1 in the desert where Parisians may come to taste real Arab dishes-cous- couss. highly seasoned with red pep per and honey cakes served by Arabs in picturesque burnouses.
 All in all 1t will make pretty white spot in old Paris where the faithful may turn their faces toward the mecca and sing praises to Allah. Strenuous athletics for young wom- en were denounced by the Medical Congress of Physical Education, which has been sitting in Vichy recently. A number of doctors went there to study the problem at first hand when 90 women's athletic associations took part in a national gymnasttc fete. The
 congress approved resolution made by Dr. Dtffere that girls should not indulge in active sports unless they have completed 8 careful graduated | course of physical training to fit them for strenuous competition. French women have had a. difficult
 task to enter the ring of national sports. In general, the feeling in l France is against them. Women, F'renchmen think, are delicate, dainty 1 mans pleasure Everything that tends to make them manish and mus cular is bitterly denounced. To find that his floor is practically carpeted with gold was an unexpected surprise to Monsieur Maunoury, French Minister of the Interior. No- ticing his carpet was becoming a bit
 worn and faded he sent for the in spector of the Beau Arts to call around and see about cleaning and repairing it. Much to the astonishment of the minister, he declared the floor cover
 ing worth at least $5,000 at the pres- ent day exchange Put up to auction, the expert says that it represents a sum of $20,0O0 to s30,000. So now Monsieur Maunoury has decided to
 replace the expensive rug by a cheap CT modern carpet, for the risk of ink spots, etc, is too great.
 DO you SC that big dollar bill, DOT | ter?" said a traveller on the Straus- l bourg express, its yours if you wake l me at Bar-1e-1uc. My compartment | is No. 2, second class, and I'm a pretty l hard sleeper, so don't be afraid to | shake me a bit if necessary-sure l thing, eh?'' and he slipped him the dollar bill.
 The next morning the train arrived | at Strasbourg and much to his sur prise the porter was approached by | the passenger for Bar-le-Duc whom he thought he had put out in the mid | d1e of the night.
 l "Imbeci1e, idiot, espece dane, that's
 the way you earn a good dollar, is it ?' | Well, what's the truble?" asked
 the chief trainnaan who was passing 1 by.
 1 ."Oh, chief, that's nothing-if you
 only could have heard the man | whom I put off at Bar-le-Duc!"