Evening star., 1946-08-06

their mother, are in Paris.
The responsibility seems to be
welcomed by Mrs. Rist, and she plans
TO make frequent trips to France to
keep in touch with them. Photo
graphs show very attractive, happy
looking group with ages ranging
from 4 to 81. Last Christmas, after
month Of packing, Mrs. Rist took
OF the II off to the Tyrol for
a fortnight of skiing. Her husband,
who was head of the French Finance
Division in Vienna at the time, was
able to join them and a merry time
was had by all.
A new arrival in Washington, Mrs.
Rlst has found charming old place
in Georgetown to live in, which quite
by accident has the appearance of a
house in some suburb of Paris. The
walled-in garden in back, with Its
clipped ivy and tidy gravel walks,
has all the quietness and privacy of
a French home.
Like Lady Astor, the first thing
Mrs. Rist noticed when she got to
America was our hats. Her COM
ments differed, however Lady Astor
said we have too many hats, and
Mrs. Rist claims we are wearing 1899
models. Even the dress styles haven't
percolated through from Paris yet.
American movies shown in Paris for
the first time after the war, it seems.
were very popular because the
clothes We wore then made the
audiences laugh.
Mrs. Rist told of the lack of food
in France, especially of meat, butter
and oil. Cattle are so poorly fed !
even bacilli won't grow on the meat
used for experiments in the Pasteur
Institute. A small cake of soap, 80
per cent soap and 10 per cent clay, is !
allotted to each person for month. !
Clothes are rationed and only wood
en- shoes are sold on the market
There is one story Mrs. Rist likes
TO tell about the war. In November
one day the youngest, age 3, of the
nine children living in Versailles
took walk with her sister, age II.
Tney spoke enough English to have
a chat with CT during their air
ing, and they told him there were
nine children in their family and
no father. The CT saw them home
and returned the next hour with an
armful of different kinds of food,
and later he came back again with
a large Thanksgiving turkey.
1t was the first turkey the children
had ever seen, Mrs. Rist said, and
they were all gloriously ill for
week.
The CT appeared at the house sew
eral days later to say farewell TO
them and then left for the front.
They corresponded for a short while
and the children still have his pic
ture and still talk about him.
Another story relates the rescue
OF an American f1ier who was found
wounded in the woods near Paris.
A friend brought him to the Rist
apartment for hiding. Chains were
investigated which would conduct
him through the underground to
Spain. Two chains were contacted
which we're broken, but a third was
finally found which was in running
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companied the man to the Seine
embankment and saw him on his
way. On the same day two friends
of the American went down to Spain
and all three reached their destina-
ton safely after two months.
The former Eva Cornier OF Rouen,
Mrs. Rist met her husband while
studying in Paris. Leonard RiSt
was also a student at the time at
the Sorbonne. During part Of their
engagement, Mr.. Rist was away
serving as Secretary at the French
Embassy in Moscow for six months,
and in New York for six months
for his first banking training. He
is the son of Mr. Charles Rist, for
mer deputy governor of the Bank
OF France and time financial /
advisor to Poincare.
Mr.. Leonard Rist was in private /
banking from 1928 to 1945 when he
was vice president of Morgan & Gle
in Paris. He took an active part
during the war and was taken
prisoner by the Germans when try
ing to get to England after the
French armistice. When he escaped
in 1941 he joined the resistance
movement and later took part in
the liberation of Paris.