Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-05-28
The
Cosmopolite
Paris l. Determined to Out
Spring Spring in Gay
Colors.
BY ROSE PATTERSON.

NcIUIS. |
BY ROSE PATTERSON.
PARIS, May 23.-The excitement en-
gendered by the municipal elections has
been followed by determination by all
Paris to offspring Spring!
The fashionable shade is something
between lettuce and tulip-leaf green"
and white and green are the seasons
colors.
You must dress yourself and your
car very gayly, indeed; big white cars
are much in vogue, upholstered either
in scarlet, or with mustard-yelloW cush-
ions: madame should be dressed in the
latter case in yellow and white to
match.
Plaster Maiden in Window.
A municipal councillor has even sug-
gested Frightening up the traffic police
very considerably, too. He wants to
put them into phosphorescent suits for
night DUTY. Evidently the idea OF
pilosphorescent policeman holding up
scarlet and white car has seized the
councillors imagination.
But amid this colorful scheme Of
things. the modernist has laid hold OF
the sweet young thing in wax, removed
her from the show window and re-
placed her with plaster maiden with
a long, thin head, gray complexion
and what he Is pleased to call "hu-
man" expression. This lady has no
hair, but her swanlike neck is well
adapted to gay scarf or choker col
lar of colored crystal beads.
Gentlemen, perhaps, like these new
ladies, for at any rate they do not pre-
fer blondes. Anita Loos has again Eeen
telling Paris so.
gentlemen are attracted by blondes,
but mostly they marry brunettes," in
sists Anita.
Food Tinted Like Dress.
Paris has decided that ladies prefer
! the postwar man. He Is not SO pol
| ;Shed, perhaps, as the adult male OF
| 1914, but he is more practical, and II
! the modern Frenchwoman must choose
between poetry and power, give her
power every time, says Paris.
| To get back to our colors. another
fad is food to tone with your dress,
and by all means ask for light blue
sauce with your salmon if your color
scheme demands it.
OF course, you might find the choice
of dishes little difficult should you
| be wearing one of the new geography
jumpers, with map Of the world en-
broidered all over, or even II 1t boasts
only England and Wales.
Avignon-Palace of the Popes.
The ancient Palace of the Popes, that
great red brick pile of buildings, stand
ing with the air of a medieval fortress
on the bank of the Rhone. Is remi-
niscent of dance and Provencal SONG
and sunburnt mirth," as Keats woulo
have said, for did not Tout lie monde
| danse en- rond"?
Every one danced around, around
around on the old bridge of Avignon
and AlphonSe Daudet has immortallzee
this ancient refuge of fourteenth cen
fury Pope in his "Lettres de MOI
Moulin"
whoever has not seen the Avignol
Of the time OF the Popes' ne sai s
such town: from morning to nigh
there were professions and pilgrim
ages; the streets were strewn will
flowers and hung with old tapestry
cardinals arrived by the Rhone witt
banners flying, in gayly decked galleys
the Pope'S soldiers sang Latin In tn
squares. and the mendicant friars rat
| tied their rattleS, ana Cnen 1rom Lol
to bottom, in the houses that nestle'
and hummed round the great Papa
palace like bees round their hive, tn
lace looms licked, the shuttles flew t
and for weaving the golden chasubles
the goldsmiths' hammers rang. AM
over it all the great bells pealed, an
by the bridge resounded the timbrelE
ceaSeless din"
Other Distinguished Guests.
: Since those happy times Avignon hs
boosted other distinguished resident
: besides Popes. John Stuart Mill, dur
r ing his residence there. was invited t
call upon two visiting princesses g
? their hotel They had come to Avie
2 non especially to make his acqualnt
ance! He regretted that he had mad
it a rule never to pay visits of tina
i kind, but he would be pleased to sc
$ them if they cared to call on him. I
/ those days such thing was impossibl
i and the princesses went sadly ava
:. again.
: Quite recently the noble building ha
been used as a barracks and the mob
c lines of the great hall have been spoiie
o by temporary ugly partitions. The pa
!, ace is, Of course, a show place for tour
= lists.