Show GOOD FRIDAY IN PARIS when meat is D if cult to get in the F french en ch capital the son sor t of a french friend of mine a boy piri inears q ears ars of age when asked by his tutor tuto how good friday holy friday the french call it differed from other othea days distinguished himself by th epigrammatic answer on good friday there Is less butcher a meat in paris and many more fir fn gl ishmen the boy described the dit dif farenc t e exactly from a paris point ot view to day is the one day in all the oa on which the paris parts butcher close closes his 1 shop and takes a holiday and meat is extremely difficult to get in paris except in restaurants where of course a small supply has been laid in for customers who are not roman catholics or who do not practice abstinence from meat even upon this one day in paris where ex of opinion of ell all kinds have always met the freethinker appear appears in his most self assertive form today to day there are a number of freethinking free thinking clubs in paris all of which meet in great solemnity this evening to protest against the tenets ot of all churches to eat sausages ham pork t and every forra of pigs pig s flesh they can think of and to drink at intervale intervals toasts to the downfall of religion these good friday festivals of 0 paris freethinkers are very harmless paris parts correspondence of london pall mall gazette |