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Show COSTLY MEAL SHOCKS JACK Dempsey Finds Paris the Most Expensive Place) He's Struck; Women's! Advance Styles Decree ! Blending of Colors PA 11 IS April 20. i By The Associated Asso-ciated Press.) 'Thls is the most ex-, ex-, pensive town I've ever struck." ex-I ex-I claimed Jack Dc-mpsev as he looked over a bill presents dfiltn for a meal' In a boulevard cafe. The champion pugilist, with Tack , Kearns. his manager, n French newspaper news-paper man and the correspondent as; his guests, each had Just taken the equivalent of an ordinary American business man s lunch. Dempsey drank Water and the three guests light wines The bill read 228 francs, which, with the customary 10 per cent tip Increased In-creased to 200. Dempsey Immediately translated the amount Into dollars: "Twenty-five bucks!" ho cxpotu-. lated. "Why, I could eat meals like thai for a week In New York for that money "It must be great. Jack." said the, correspondent as miest and hosts saun-J tered out of the restaurant, "to look i OVSr the crowds in the boulevards and be able tO sH to one's self 'There's not a man in that crowd 1 can't! lick." "Don't you believe It." replied thej champion modestly, "There are perhaps per-haps half a dozen men on the boulevard boule-vard now. who, with a little tralnliiK w ould knock nie. for goak" Pi I RSI S' Hi l IRJ l The Florence Nightingale school for nurses, the permanent memorial t, American nurses who gave their lives in France during the war. Is nearlnn completion at Talence, near Bordeaux. Bor-deaux. It will be dedicated May 12, the 102nd anniversary of the birth of Florence Nightingale, founder of modern mod-ern Red Cross nursing. NO less than 278 American nurses died on d,iy In France and 60.000 nurses in the United States have contributed con-tributed to the tund, making thin school possible MIIVV TOPPI-'Jl RETURNS. Among the Incidental victims of the war, Ihe high silk hat was one. whose fats was regarded as definitely sot- tled It disappeared with the inobl-livuntion inobl-livuntion a-nil It was found that marriages mar-riages mi' funerals could be celebrat-. celebrat-. .1 without Its presence it required, during the war. a ministerial or an ambassadorial function of first Importance Im-portance to produce them But now-, the Jocky club, tho most aristocratic social body In France, hat decided that henceforth Its members Bf mUSl no I appear at races without their -ilk toppers. ORGANDIE IN VOGUE. The return to simple organdie Isl dresses with extended hips, as in the BLI of bonis XIV. Is promised by the a! big Paris dressmakers who are Juct H beginning to display their midsummer HH models. These "period" dresses all BH have the appearance of old-fushioned HBftg crimollhe, but can be worn without BAVfl corsets, un element in woman's dres IVAl regarded as absolutely essential to tie BwJ proper effect or dress in the time of BflBa Louis XIV VAswJ Having decided that spring and HSawJ summer frocks must have capes to tswJ match. fiu-h Ion creators have decreed ImbwJ thnt shoes must now be worn to EBbswJ match the cape and dress Paris HsBaWJ shoemakers, therefore, have begun to nHswj manufacture summer shoes of all ttSawJ shade., brick red, oyster and leige 9lwJ b. lug the three colors most affected. HfiYJ I trier this new dictum of Dame V Pish. on. women this summer, to lvWJ qdoti one Paris dressmaker, win be (HwJ symphonies In one color. There will wbHb b.- no mixture or blending of colors OTliBj Every woman will have gown, cape tIsb! I stockings and shoes of the name Vll |