The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-08-12
BOYDEN HAS WON GREAT ADMIRATION
 IN FRENC HEyES.
American "UnofficiaI 0bserv- CT" Had Much Power On
 Preparations Body

PARIS, August 11.-(By Associated Press. )-Roland w. Boyden. who has just turned over his unofficial" duties as American delegate to the separations commission, and Is pre- pairing to sail for home, will leave France with prestige equal to that of the most popular am bassador the United States ever had here. The French like MT. Boyden.
 Although they know he has not al- ways been their packer on the repara- tions commission, they like his frank ness and fairness. Premier Poincare once said 1t was a great pity that MT. Boyden's duties were not more of ficial," not only because it would have been well to have the weight of American prestige used effectively In the settlement of separations prob lems, but because the American rep resentative was Mir. Boyden.
 The French admire him particularly for what in their eyes is a great feat. He prevented the position of 'unof- ficial observer" which at one time seemed bound to fall into, ridicule. from being caricatured on Paris musical hall stage. "Boyden, without on the commission as any other dele gate" an official of the commission once remarked. His counsel on many occasions has strengthened out tangles that delegates of the more di- rectly interested powers were unable to unravel."
 Mr. Boyden goes home with the cross of the Legion of Honor and decorations from other countries rep resented on the commission, and with all the honors accorded a diplomatic representative.
 Teach DarninE.
 Excellent mending long has been one of the great assets of French womanhood. Girls virtually are never seen with holes in their stockings, but apparently Leon Berard, the minister of education, has observed some heels shining through, for he has issued a circular to all schools, insisting that girls be we'll instructed in darning.
 q wish" he says in the new school decree, when a girl has new stock ings she would learn before using them to reinforce the heels as our mothers did. This would give her reg ular practice with a darning stitch which she can apply later to darning holes which Is much more difficult. It might be well also to show the chill dren how to avoid holes. To do this 1t Is sufficient when the stockings have been washed to look them over carefully and then strengthen the thin spots.
 Children should be made to realize that to wear clothes torn or with holes, even If not seen. is to lack self respect"
 Wine Prices High.
 Frenchmen may look on wine when 1t is red. white or yellow, but that's about all in the case of the famous vintages unless he Is wealthy
 Notwithstanding that last years crop was heavy and this years prom ise to be bumper one, there will be no fall in prices for a score of req sons, the principal one being, accord ing to the growers, the scarcity and high price of labor, and incidentally of wine casks. which before the war cost 25 francs and now sell for 175 francs.
 Ordinary persons will have to be content with the thinnest of thin, or dinary wine to wash down their breakfast and French fried potatoes which, according to the Investigations of those statistically inclined toward gastronomy subjects, is the most pop. ular dish in Franco.
 A hundred frac note now just about covers the cost of a bottle of fine old wine in the best restaurants and the tip that the wine waiter demands for himself. The French however, can enjoy their usual post-prandial smoke without the fear of prices be- ing imm ediately raised, and they do The daily consumption of cigars is now nearly a million.