The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-07-13
FRENCH PREMIER 
 WITH BRIAR PIPE
M. Edouard Herriot Seek. ]. ing Smile Of Lady
 Luck, Is Pleasantly

Luck, Is Pleasantly
 PARIS; July 12.-(By Associated Press. .)-Whether Monsieur 'Edouard Herriot, premier of France, uses pipe for it's own sake or whether, since the visit of General Dawes to Europe, he has decided it's other virtues are such [ that no statesman with hard job on his hands should ignore them is. the question that is going the rounds.
 M. Herriot was seen in Paris with pipe in his mouth for the first time when he returned from the electoral campaign. at the head of brand new majority to succeed M: Poincare, who neither smokes nor enjoys the reputa- tion, of General Dawes, of being a man of more than ordinary luck, It is hint ed good naturedly that Premier Herriot. who is great admirer of the chief reparations expert and was dazzled by the fact that the American found a way out of the separations tangle, at tributes part of the Dawes success to the qualities of an underslung pipe as a mascot. -.,..:. .s,.-.,
 The pipe has just made its appear ance for the first time in history so far as any one has been able to trace, in the inner sanetun of the QuGit D Orsay, where the cigarette heretofore has predominated.. But M. Herriot has not gone to, extremes, He has re- trained from adopting the underslung pattern. His pipe is the ordinary French briar. The premief's choice not only shows loyalty to home indus tries but pays compliment to the ac- tivity of small enterprise in the foot hills of the Alps, one of his favorite plAygrounds. ..5
 Speedy With The Knives
 Records are not made on Olympic tracks alone. A French surgeon who is declared by his countrymen to have performed more appenlitic operations than any other surgeon in the world, has just died in France, aged 72, Adolphe Jalaguier, besides having been the alleged record holder in the number of operations, is also said to have held the record for the greatest speed in re- moving the appendix.
 Dr. Jalaguier was specialist in chiiy dren's operations, notably for harelip, before making appendicitis his field. He read a paper on appendicitis before the International Medical Congress in, 1900 to whom it is said, nothing or real importance has been added since.
 IT. Parisiennes Prefer Boots
 Fashion may seem foolish, but ac- cording to it's followers, common sense plays its part. All of, which explains the fad among Parisiennes for high shoes at home. They .found that un- supported ankles. sag and they prefer beauty to nature, regardless of Paul Poiret's dictum that thick ankles indi- cate superior brains.
 Women for the same reason also are discarding the heavily cut out, siashed sandals and are taking up for afternoon wear demi-boots which were formerly restricted to morning wear. One of the smaEtest models of this type, blue kid with combination champagne and black kid with a touch of red, is promised for autumn. .:-.... '
 Black stockings are advocated, al though a tendency is growing toward matching shoes. As white shoes are worn at the seaside resorts, white stock inss are coming back. h ..
 Freaks of fashion include the new cubist shoe of field mouse gray with straps and heels inlaid with triangular pieces of green. brown. red, etc. An other modernist type for house weaf is the square-toed futurist mule made of gilt, black and red triangles. and lined with gilt pieces turned back on the il- step. .,r .7<.t.fs..S F
 The keynote of simplicity, spoken of as the new tendency, seems limited to form, for the widest range in color is offered women. At races and other fashion shows they are wearing apple green, tanbark, tete de negre black, trimmed with silver, black and cherry colored lizard skins, field mouse grey and even standard white. @,
 Olympic Boom Fails
 Many an establishment in Paris which counted on increased patronage due to the Olympics is now dismayed, having made costly renovations and new installations in anticipation of the rush of Anglo-Saxon visitors, only to discover that the boom has failed to strike. Paris: One of the big Turkish bath establishments in Paris remodlled its swimming pool and employed extra help in all departments. But it found that the American athletes preferred their rub downs and other essentials at their training headquarters at Rocquencourt. The. American swim nlers also found that the new Les Tourelles pool was sufficient to save them from recourse to the privately owned "Six-hy-eights' promoted from the pre-Olympic '.two-by-fours.
 The swagger barber shops and beau ty parIors have been reduced to despair finding that the American athletes and their followers belong to a hardy race and prefer to shave themselves, while the feminine contingents are converts to tn bobbed-hair regime which does not need continual marcelling.
 - The hotels report no strain is being experienced in providing rooms. Many of the hotels which put faith in stories months ago that Paris was utterly .un- der-hoteled, now are regretting having undertaken. the renting of annexes and private rooms to meet crisis which has not yet developed. ~I