Imperial Valley press., 1925-07-08

husband. fnhn II. Rater formn1
sunorvisor from the fifth district, is
matinq an extensive four of Euron"
Mrs. Baker. writer of consid
cradle ability. gives vivid and
Intensely human nicture of tourist
life in the capital of France. The
letter follows:
(Snacial tn the pressl
BY AUDREY w. BAKER
Once ur9n y time there may have
been IN American tourist who re
tnruel from Paris to his home IN
Wichita, or Nashville. or Los An
ornes or somewhere else. with the
cuiltiest Of feelings, because he
hado t zone to The very top of tho
Eiffcl Tower, or had skipned some
gr"qt relic at Notre Dame!
But The tourist has never beer
found, who couldn t answer his next
door neighbours oucrv:' Well. |
supposo vou had drink at the Cafe
lie In Paix' with an honest: "SurC
| did. and let me tell vou never
saw more Americans right down nj
the corner drug store here after the
picture show on Saturday nieht..''
"'Sit on the terrace of the Cafe
lie Ia PaiV. for an hour today, and
vou are bound to meet some ono
whom You know So every tourist
will insist. And one to he con
WINGED that summer. 1925, has arriv.
81 in Paris needs only to glance at
the crowd of four hundred thou.
sand Americans at ono time or an
ather sipning their coffee or eat
ing their ice cream in tho shade of
the gorgeous red and white awning
these lovely warm afternoons.
Just toeing the line that senarates
the scething boulevard. with its
army of peddlcrs. vending every
thing from colored spectacles, to
monumental and metropolitan maps
set the advance guard of the college
boy battalions. "Biggcr and bag.
gier trousers than ever seems Ia
he their slogan this season, and
'shinier and vellower walking
sticks. Soft hats at just n little
bit more than that Prince of Wales
angle, one Tapping trousered leg,
swung nonchalantlv over the other,
they sit cat ease talking of tick
els. for the Casino de Paris. and
convinced that "It's a pretty darn
good passing show right here, and
it certainly ought to bro2den a
fella : outlook =
In the row behind Them, and IN
uathetically large numbers. YOU l
find those WelI dressed, stout xh
gentlemen. wearing impeccable
tweeds. but stil cIinging TO their
Congress shoes. the prosuerous bus
mess gentry of the United States,
who are irving 10 kill time while
their wives and daughters shop.
/" Run along, and don { You worry
about ne. - they tell the folks
right after breakfast. and Il O'Clock
finds Them anchored safely under
the red and white awning praying
that eompatriot will accidentlv
sit down beside them. Human in
tcrest stuff ahounds in Row >, at
the Cafe de Ia Paix,
Magazines Handy
q always take the Literary hi.
gest, or some other American maya
zine with me when I drop in for
coffee, admitted one white-mue-
tached. gold watch-chained husband.
Works right often, TOO, for di-
rectly another deserted husband
sees me, he asks me the time or
something. and there we are. Al
most as GOOD as a lodge pin, I've
discovered.'
Probable the most heart breaking
ease on record was tho kindly old
gentleman who took the liberty of
addressing another solitary patron
on the terrace, the other day.
" Brother. 7 wonder if Won would
mind talking TO me q littln? My
wife 3 been mad at me for two davs.
Won't srcak to me. and whom Won
said 'whiskev and soda minute
ago. that was the first English I've
heard spoken in eight hours,
went 10 what's supposed TO be IN
American barber shop, on purpose
to talk this morning, hut it was
the barber's day off. and the fellow
who shaved me, smoke nothing but
French. 7 wanted TO 90 out and
iump in the Seinel''
The fragrant odor Of the Rue dc
Ia Paix. poDular perfumes smothers
the smell Of briar pipes. and cioar
cites, at about > O'Clock. Thi,
means that the ladies are beginning
to gather. to recuperatc on ch0co
late parfaits, and porto films, from
a day Of strenuous purchasing. n
twos and threes they wander in
just little perplexed as to wheth
or the row against the wall or the
little corner table at the meeting
Of the Opera and the Boulevard i,
the nice-kindly faced matron
whose sons are at last married, ano
the daughters are safely at school
so that they may have this first tril
in years with not worry in tn,
world; pretty girls in sports suits
and obviously new "made" hat
signalling the two boys they met ol
the boat coming over, and thel
again in Rome; older girls doing
little intelligent lOafing after wear
Of work at teaching school or helr
ing mother with the housekeeping.