The Enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 192?-1930, 1928-04-26

champagne and dancers !, de luxe
would probably sink to the level of
the Halles, haunt of the Apachos.
Going To Hell Anyway
think John Calvin was right.
Some of us are going to hell anyway.
He'll, If there is one is certainly
made to hold people, and in trying to
reform everybody, we give the big
gest kind of advertisement possible
to the devils" work.
Nude shows after all whether in
Paris or New York are only money
making propositions. Imagine in the
Congo, where the women GO nude,
some Congo Ziegfcld, putting on a
nude show.
Send Pictures
/ I'll never forget sight once saw
in a magistrate court in New York.
Some luckless fellow had been found
with lot of lew pictures and was
up for hearing. Before the trial the
pictures were passed around in an
inner room where all of us, reporters.
policemen and clerks, all had good
look at them. Among the number
was the magistrate, who after several
Jokes at the pictures went on the
bench and gave the prisoner stiff
sentence.
Paris .Jolxestcr t.. sga
And speaking of pictures ! must
tell this one, though it is almost too
good joke to be given away.
The average tourist arrives from
the land of the pure with the inn
preston that Paris is naughty city,
and of course, he isn't so far wrong.
While in the neighborhood of the
/ Opera, the Place de la Concorde, or
the Arc de Triomphe. haunts of the
sellers of post cards, guidebooks, etc.
he will very likely be approached
! by one of these vendors in the same
sly, secretive way that sellers of pre-
tended "hot" goods in America.
Slipping you package of cards in a
covering Of tissue paper, the man
gives you just enough time to get a
fleeting glimpse of nude female,
then in the most frightened manner
possible rlances from the right to left
he says insistently:
Put it in YOUR pocket. Quickl
QulCk1 IOllCt1
Sixty Cents Out
| Of course, you, full of the above
mentioned impression think here is
chance to get some real pictures
to take back as souvenirs that you
have really been in gay Paree, and
| decide to keep them. How much?
Fifteen francs. You calculate quick
". Only sixty cents. Why in the
States they'd cost that many cents
each. You hand over your money.
! Back to your hotel you will pull
them out for one good look, then II
you have a good sense of humor
you'll have good laugh at yourself
| instead. ;.'3g .@4e. tg asa
They're reproductions of pictures
to be seen in any art gallery. And you
have been passing by better than
these all the morning in the shop
windows for one-fifth of the price.
These men do a rushing business.
Another Proposition
Let us suppose, however, that
you're no greenhorn, and insist in
speaking French no. matter how
much English he speaks, you ask
him how long he has been selling pic
lures in that neighborhood. He re-
plies several months, on which you
hint that the policemen must be aw-
full dumb not to have spotted him
all that time ~
He makes you another proposition,
He promises to take you to a place
where you can see something awful
good" All of which reminds me that
| had better close, or some lady will
be writing to Double dare me to
tell. as in the case Of my article on
Pompeii.
My next article will be on the
American Negro in Paris, who he is
and what he does.