New Britain herald., 1930-03-29
PARIS C0NGESTED,
 PEOPLE MOVE OUT
Suburban Developments Attract
 Crowded City DWellers

Paris. March o9 (P}-"Now is the winter of our discontentment made glorious moving time by the ap- proach of spring. dsclaims the av craze householder at this season, and Paris IS no exception.
 Neither is it unique in cchoing to the anguished walls Of the renter that while there is plenty of oppor- tunity to pick and choose. the place Of his desire is usually priced too high.
 The French capital went over the hump of it's postwar housing shor:- age last summer. An unprecedented amount of building took place III the suburbs and outer fringes of the city and rubbish Uttered vacant lots shaped up into streets flanked with cleaning new apartments joined in almost solid blocks and rising to the height limit imposc1 by city regulations.
 The development was timely too, for statisticians had figured that Paris had reached it's greatest pop ulation destiny. The 3,J00,0 ,00Q peo- pie living within the 2S square miles of the city were crowded until even dyed-in the-Wool Parisians began 10 find the atmosphere somewhat stiflng. and moved towards tue country.
 The squeezing out process hal some bizarre effects upon the sub- urban areas. Many of the packed in city dwellers expanded mentally as we'll as physically when they got into the comparative freedom of the suburbs and gave evidence of their joy by bestowing eXtravagant names of endcarment upon the lit tic villas which they built, bought or rented
 Blue of Heaven" My Little Corner" Lulu and Mimi,' "Only We Two" and My Love Dream" are only samples of the labels prominently displayed on such places. They put completely in the shade such typically American manifestations of the same sort of mental relief expressed by "Justa- mere Cottage Shady Rest and 'Dewdrop Inn"
 The exotic element is not entirely absent either from the city develop ments. although lovers of the old world aspects of the French capital have been loud in their criticism 1f the newer apartment house dis tricts.
 Some of the apartments are con- Sidered fine examples of the best architectural art, with special atten- tion paid to the smoothly terraccd facades that typify modern Euro pean building thought. The critics acknowledge this but aver that these buildings arc exceptions, rather than rules, and that parts of the district around the Champs d. Mars, between the drill field and the Eitfel tower; stretches between the St. Augustin church and the Ftoile and certain of the newly de- veloped sections around the unia- dustrialized outer gates show a marked resemblance to the monot- onous lined streets of the Bronx or the west side of Chicago. But regardless of the architoc- ture, middle class Parisians wlio car not get to the suburbs prefer the apartments to the dwellings of pre-war standards. They prefer low ceilings to high, steam heat 10 alrtight coal or gas contraptions, and constant lot water to tempera- mental heaters of the bath.
 Designers Of the modern apart ments have not taken a maidlcss era into consideration. Virtually all of the places devote the top floor to servants quarters. And ali of them have snug little wine col lars, one. to each tenant, in the bascmcnts.