Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1963-12-01
PARIS REPORT
BY ANDREA
star Special Writer

By ANDREA
Star Special Writer
PARIS. - Something that
he will not COR could not)
exchange or return - not
neckties and gloves. but
something to show off with
pride.
The fashionable gift that
any Frenchman would like to
find in his stocking this
year, Is the genuine British
cashmere sweater, imported
openly or not-from over
the Channel.
With q little imagination.
however. she might avoid
the troubles and costs and
give him something unusual.
And so the PariSienne is
hunting the perfect Christ
mas gift for her man, the
one that will please him and
make her look smart for
having selected 1t. In the
back of her mind she is quite
confident that her gift will
also be useful to her, one
way or the other.
Don't Judge
A book? Not any book or
Just a copy Of those that won
a literary prize. They are all
around town and somebody
else will give or lend them
to him anyway, but one or
two elegant leather bound
books that would fit in any
library. They are in fact
nothing else than cleverly
disguised whisky TASKS.
Among the really new
books nothing will be as use
full as the new Guide JUL
lard de Paris" a very special
guidebook containing more
than 1000 addresses. All the
restaurants worthwhile are
in it, with prices, atmosphere
and quality Of the food men,
toned. There are some, and
quite well known places
among them, where the au-
thors Henry Gault and
Christina Millau will never
be able to set foot in If they
don't want to be lynched, es-
pecially in the fashionable
st. German des Pres district.
where most places are quail
fled as "snobbish with bad
food"
Now "he" will finally know
the real good ones and pick
the right spot to take "her."
He will also find the ad-
dresses he has been looking
for In years: Where to buy
a bottle at midnight, where
to play golf without being a
millionaire, where to rent q
costume or a bicycle, where
to find Q babysitter and
where to call II he wants the
Eiffel Tower or the Arch Of
Triumph illuminated on her
birthday land for how
muchD, where to hire q
clown for the children's party
or an extra servant for the
grown ups.
He will love 1t and she will
use 1t.
Vocabulary Aid
Also amusing and quite
useful is the Petit Diction-
naire du parfait Automobil-
iSte" by Christian Verbel. q
delightful booklet for the
nervous driver with every
single expression he might
utter behind the wheel. It
is written by q Chanson-
nier who knows all the tricks
about cars. The story goes
that an autopart manufac-
turer wanted to distribute q
copy Of it to his customers,
but quickly withdrew his or
der when he learned they
wouldn't like 1t: Most Of
them are repair shops and
in 1t the author reveals all
the known ways to cheat the
client.
Another nice gift for the
fanatic driver would be the
autoseat cushion with his
license number printed on 1t
and q Paris specialist has
even foreseen a gift for the
one who gets too many
tickets. It's a sort Of piggy
bank. a silverplated head Of
a "flic", as the Paris cops
are called, with q slit to put
the loose pocket money in
it, so that the tickets will
amount to nothing In the
end. A nice gift for him in
deed. He can put the money
in 1t and she can take it
out for the intended purpose
so he will never know how
many tickets she got.
All the boutiques Of the
town are displaying funny
little gifts for men, every
shop has something-from
the dime store to the big
fashion houses. Just for fun
she might buy him a small