Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-07-26
BY ROSE PATTERSON.
L Dispatch to The Star.

Special Dispatch to The Star.
PARIS, July 26 CN.AN.A).-The Paris
season has officially closed, but fashion,
ably dressed and jeweled Summer visit
ors are crowding the smart restaurants
and night clubs.
When August comes the lone French
man will desert them quite, but mean
while he can still entertain the visitors
with discussions upon the eating of
meat of which the French doctors have
just been telling him he consumes far
too much; upon the latest craze for
camping out in luxurious style, too.
Paris has two ZOOS, and in one of
them, the Jardin discrimination, quite
a number of we'll known Parisians have
been camping" in little portable villas.
They persuade themselves that they are
thus enjoying all the rigors of outdoor
life. and are SO charmed with the OK
perience that we may expect to see
many a Partisan hitch his villa to q
car and go traverSing Europe in this
novel way, emulating Mile. Yvonne de
Bray, who has determined to set out for
Berlin in this manner.
Doumergue's Absence.
The lone Frenchman will tell you,
perhaps, the story of M. Doumergue's
absence from one of the great ACE
meetings recently. The President had
lent his stand to some friends, and it
happened that a maharajah among
them sat in the presidential seat. The
usual provincial crowds gathered about
the stand between races; they looked at
one another; they wagged their heads.
IN. lie Presidents face is very
strange color" said one of them at last,
''he must be very ill.,
And If you laugh loudly enough the
L. F. may even tell you another story
one from among the many good ones
told sometimes by NJ. Henri Cheron,
minister of finance. who himself may
become President of the republic, some
think. when M. Doumergue retires.
Witch NJ. Cheron was minister Of
agriculture, he received a deputation
from local village, headed by an irate
mayor, who thus addressed him:
IN. lie Minister, we have come to
say that we demand, to the last man,
to be electrocuted without further de-
lay. We have waited for years. The
people in the villages round about us
were electrocuted long ago and we will
wait no longer!"
OF course, it was an electric power
system they were after.
Advertising on Gold Bicycle.
You may hear too, how Mile. Maud
1Oty set ABOUT advertising the legitimate
stage in the face of the growing menace
of the "talkies" by riding to and from
her theater on golden bicycle. Press
photographers were invited, but when
they turned up the wondrous mount
had been stolen!
When the L. F. Is gone and you are
left to entertain yourself, you may
watch Paris making her annual toilette,
for the Summer army of "paveurs" has
put in its appearance. Some 10000 900
square yards of paving, of which nearly
a quarter is wood-paving, has to be re-
conditioned every Summer, while Paris
flockS to the sea or the country.
Riviera and Color.
Bathing at Juan-les-Pins and the
Cap d'Antibes is nothing If not smart
this Summer. Costumes are gorgeous
and shoes, caps. belts and bags, in
bright shades of rubber must all match.
Rubber beads and rubber bracelets are
worn in the water and your wrap of
towelling, however smart, Is "chic'' no
more. It must be superseded by a
sports coat of flannel or crepe de chine!
Gibraltar as Tourist Center.
They are going to build a large,
modern hotel on the Europa road, SO