Madison County Democrat. (London, Ohio) 19??-1958, 1955-05-31
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my! We have spent a fraction
of a lifetime in a few small
days in a wondrous place
which is full of sex, frivolity
and futility. 1t is positively
charming and altogether "ex-
pressive" in a way that grabs
and seiZes ones wits.
Picture yourself having din
ner on the Eiffel Tower. (the
French will tel you that the
only reason the Germans
didn't tear this down was be-
cause Eiffel was a German en-
gineer). Picture yourself hav-
ing a 5 o'clock cocktail at the
Cafe de la Paix. Try any
sidewalk restaurant. Go any
where you like it all adds up
to one thing The French have
a way with them!
Once the Boulevard Mont
martre was considered "off
limits" to SWANS of the Gay
Nineties but no more. If we
could have had our own choice
(Which we didn't we couldn't
have chosen a better spot for
our operations. Here you can
sit and watch the world go by
India women with blue and
red dots between and above
their intelligent eyes; cute
Chinese girls on the arms of
French airmen; French beaut-
les in the latest Balmain crea-
tions; Jews fresh from Cher
bourg and Tel Aviv; Existent
ialiSt men who wear silly
looking boards and whose
women wear anything they
can get their hands on: Span
ish, Russian and Bulgarian and
Indo-Chinese who think the
answer to the big question"
lies in their fertile minds =
they are all here but the
French take them all in stride
and make them like it. The
French are the only people
we have seen who can take
your money away from you
and make you smile at the
positively painless extraction!
The products of the entire
world are on display here =
anything from a new set of
monkey glands to a Mickey
Finn for your Uncle Elmer.
True, it will cost you more
than anywhere else but it is
worth it even if it isn't worth
it.
A day in Paris is just plain
fun and, after your first day,
you can't wait for the second
day to begin. CAS- if the first
day actually ended in the
first placeD AT any rate, you
get up in the morning and
take coffee at any convenient
cafe. Matter of fact, you
take several coffees since the
sun is shining brightly and you
really have no place to go in
the first place. 1t becomes
noon before you know it and
decide on a stroll. So you get
the body up and head for the
Place de Concorde, for in
stance. Once there you can
look straight through the Arc
de Triomphe a mile away. 1t
looks fine and you recall the
conquering Germans goose
stepping through it at the out
set of World War ii and also
of General Won Gluck's failure
to make the grade in World
War I. So you walk the dis
tance and find the wonderful
stores and restaurants at the
end you are pleased at your
choice when you find your
self on the Champs Elysee.
Paris is just wonderful.
Perhaps you feel artistic =
go to the Louvre. If you want
to hear American jazz or Dix
leland go over to the left
bank to the Latin Quarter.
Sad French songs are on tap
back in Montmartre. If you
stay up late enough land we
did you can get anything
from onion soup to a new ul-
Ger at the French market
which provides a high-living,
unrefrigerated, and uninhibit-
ed population with everything
from beans ten inches long
to snails lately from con-
fusion. Never have we seen or
dreamed of bounty in such
beautiful disarray as at the
Paris market place.
Or perhaps you are the type
that Graves variety; 1--WE are
the type, frankly, if so, there
is but one thing to do or
rather 5000 things to do.
grab a cab and go high up to
the Quick Rabbit" and listen
to Francois Wilton in a tur-
tie neck sweater recite against
a background of nothing but
heavy breathing. or drop in
any one of many Left Bank
Joints and listen to the folk
songs of any country SUNG In
an atmosphere of pure nico-
tine and absinthe fumes. CWe
heard an American Negro ex-
army man do a song with an
ex-French navy deck-hand