The Waterbury Democrat., 1933-08-29
? IN F z NIF | NEW II | YORK
Rr IuLIA BLANsHARD

By JULIA BLhNSfhhAAD
 Paris-Parisians have a ne" joke. Everybody is saying that tne gleaming gold American eagIe seal, built into the front or the new white stone American embassy, really should have been a plse eagle". One of the pigses. drawing cards here is the green beer. It was flop in Englana pus Americans lap 1t up nere py sn barrel. Taking taxi in front of any popular cafe, like the Coli see or the Cafe Barry, you are likely to find cards left there, es- peciaIly for tourists. Yesterday one read, Temple of Love" ana gave the address
 ssThose Rude Americans"
 Americans bring their lack of respect along with them to Par1s' The dignifed statute of those great scientists who discovered the medicinal value of quinine, Peiie- tier and Caventou, standing in their long robes out on Boulevard St Michael, is called by everybody on the Left Bank, "The Qulnine Boys" On sunny days, nothing is pleasanter than to loiter on chair( which you get for a few centimes for as long as you want it) in the Luxembourg gardens, watching the old men play croquet They are practically penniless old men who have nothing else to do. They have all the dignity and enjoyement and pride in their game that American millionaires have on expensive golf courses.
 
 Guillotine Earrings.
 Not so far cry from Hitler's Germany of today are the grue- some earrings exhibited at the Carnavalet Museum. They are miniature guillotineS made of sheet gold. The ear drops are tiny chopped of heads. Aristocrats who were condemned to the guillotine and escaped had them made and wore them constantly there after Here too is an elaborately decorated, richly brocaded dress ing case that might have belonged to some removed beauty. It was Napoleon's Over in the Latin quarter, if you talk far enough through crooked, quaint old streets, you come to the Curie Institute. There little old Madame curie works every day, in her white doctors jacket and shirt.
 From sundown on life along the Champs Nlysees quickens. Among the strollers the other evening was Georges Carpenter. He was in deep conversation with Q friend. He is a somewhat older, fuller knew but still as dapper. with fe
 The Poor Millionaircs.
 Paris has a new Crise( depres- sion) plan which might give poor American millionaires an idea.
 Knowing the yen that Ameri- cans have to get into chateaux where noble families still live. and knowing how much these families need new means of revenue, an organization called La Demeure Historique (Historic Houses) is bringing the two together. For consideration, which is in- cluded fin your sightseeing tick ket certain families have agreed to absent themselves from view on Tuesdays and Saturdays to let the organization take MT and Mrs Smith and their offstpring on a tour of their parlors, bedrooms and baths and their gardens. To date the best drawing card is the picturesque Chateau de La Grange now owned by the Comte de Lasteyrie. It was Lafayette's home from 1900 to 1884 and you can still see the luxuriously fur ished, if a bit shabby, rooms where he dined, slept. read, enter tained at parties. The item that attracted the most uhums and ahs the other day. however, was out side the house. It was heavy, ornate, rusty, fashioned light ming rod that runs up the massive stone chimney to height far above the tiled Mansard roof. Ben jamin Franklin gave this hand home piece to his friend, Lafayette. Though Lafayette moved into this chateu 20 years after Franklin left France. he moved his lightning rod with himi