Show iris ris Experiences Catch in h n Her Throat I At At Memory of F Frances France's Dead When F I Seeking to Resume Pre Pre- PreWar War War Gayety I DV Dr r nl Service Staff Correspondent 1 h Dee Dec 25 3 Dy By Mall Though 1 Is yet ct far from signed Paris Is g g hard to drop her wId widows widow's ws w's a s and be Ia gay but after four COUr years It Is not easy Every cry very lit lit- of or seems lo to forced arced Thero was considerable drunk when the armistice signed mostly b of or provI- provI but tho the effervescence soon eoon od Led oft off ant and l two Wo days dais later Paris jack ack a at t i worl s dally grind g has been kept up lly for tor tho entire war and Contributed not nol a 1 little toward n ng tho enemy at l bay Paris Parts ParIsIs Is Is a Industrial center as well as ns an lenient ment It Is Weehawken tine and ai as well wen roadway and Cone Coney Island bland And Arid our years cars It has had the war In font ont yard ard 0 at t times in Its which li Is too 00 close to be torn Porn for for- n In a Q few tow w weeks In time Paris aS again ln be light crowded and en- en but I 1 do not think it will over overA overo A o same It has had too close a n. and nd It will always think of ot Its ien en en I speak of or Parts Paris this wa way I real tho city tho people ln lI living permanently and not tho the cSt city that es ea each cach da day Tho The people that i here for tor short stays stas live lI in hotels try trl to got Cot what new sensations Clean can can for their thell mone money and then elsewhere The Tho real ical Is an tr trial l hard working cit city To mal make malco o one has to travel tra In iii lubway or tho the suburban trains ben beti be- be n 5 ti and 7 In the morning I Ii I Brain Center addition to being a n. city of or mani- mani It is the brain center centeri Rt i nation I J mow know now a professor proCessor at on n a who ho has not set foot toot on Grande Grando Boulo Boulevards for tot twenty and a n. fencing master also lira lir- lir j a n the Left Bank who has neverin never in n the Paris sub subway a Yet among ormer pupils of or each are tho the am- am rulo rule dors doroS and ministers that now also Entertaining people Is Atlo rious profession and the things thing's iris s that seem BO so light and ga gay vial mean meon hard work for tor someer somer some- some f fer perhaps perlus during during- r er r before except s Paris ho- ho were the ia a 8 expositions and ia crowded as they are ore today It begins conference the peace pence lain that the they will Ill b Tae b still more moreo make matters worse the peace o o se fiord fio- fio several tea ites have o requisitioned ind rd d announce they will tf l take o more tenants have ha simply been I which Is not nol a n. trivial trl matter matterS days das even e for tor S so se cold rainy its Ith monc money Without malting making resin res- res ons in advance ance It is practically ble to got ol a n. room In any Paris Soldiers and officers coming cominS' the often front find the greatest a a. decent decant place In Into Into In getting Ito to sleep It Its It's the Americans AmerIcana make mako Inquiries as u to the BH In 11 you jot of this cem congestion you ou are aro arof arev Americans American and f v told It is the ply 1 It seems as though the city uni- uni ever ever BO so 0 full tull of ot American Besides tho the army there thore Is hi the Jross ross the Y Y M M. C. C A A. tho the Y Y W. W tho Salvation Army the Knights lun un bus jus and a a. long list of lesser ties les each one ono of at which has Its L 1 Insignia and cut The only onh peoro peo- peo ero ia ro doing good bood who aro 10 not in uni- uni lare are tho the Christian Scientists and They find glory dory enough In an arm band to this large larCa personnel various fields Paris to g C through though A I 1 can nl l are re the tHO permanent permanent Juu i m rations for which several hotels ten fen requisitioned Tho The army hashe has hag he the largest In Paris Pari as 03 an office nc ns and the Red lied Cross has hired Ure tiro Motel Regina which for tor or has hu accommodated a a. largo la-C num- num T travelers trave The arm army as M used for tor over n n. year tho the Hotel r an ns an office build build- well 03 as th the Hotel Sainto Anno Anne the Hotel moreover used my m dro III HI as cs a D. dormitory and the can peace delegation has laid on n tho the Hotel Crillon The Brit Brit- aro are taking the Hotel Mand Ma- Ma while tho the thoi thea ond nd also alao the Astoria nn i a s occupy tho the the lar larg- larg tel on the left bank of or the Seine tone one considers in addition that hotels have been used 09 oe i ac co ce tho the war ar and that tho thoM M Y T 1 M. M C. C As A.'s British and Arner cupy f fourteen hotels It Is no nor t r there IH is a a. shortage Even the 1 ean n embassy has had bad to take over i an an entire apartment house In- In account of ot en- en on of lot ono on floor services I. I Xo No n nil dine for Year Years trouble ii IB la that Paris has grown rown rI laUon without doing doln any build build- and also C r the past few tew years ear f a hero moro are no KS Ba properly speaking When Whon ok lok for office space In Paris no you rou havo o a for tor what purpose g a 3 ground round floor loor store storo a aI aI ag I I room om or suite or a n private apart apart- 1 farts oris has haH never ne learned to con- con l anything else When Then a 3 business 1 rn Installs Itself In a Paris nl apart apart- rt r tho rho e. e visitors I. I on aro are received L 1 In 41 the I. I y the me 06 directors Ors directors meet fn in III t mom m LH tie om om tho the president ent sits Ils In tho pard par par- id d d tho the clerks work wore either cither In the tho 1 inS the butlers b pantry then tho the thoIn In n or In the bathroom Many h have I seen Reen een with the tho 1 Her tier on a n. board bridging In ther the tho r Ib b b. b y not only tho the Americans American that Id ij d Install themselves that U i rench ministry 1 of or armament oc- oc ija fn a largo hotel on tho the A des dese I JB e 15 tho the aviation ministry 1 a killed ailed In an apartment house on and fard 1 St St. Germain and arid the tho Franco Franco- Pan onn high Ii commissioner has taken talon family hotel making ono one less to 10 for visitors Tho The Malson Maison do doe e occupies a mo modern apartment an and l Its directors receive It t l' l was built to bc be bedrooms Coat Ct of ot outsiders contributes Ing ng hot hotels boarding houses an and ed apartments an and adding to the theat thee TC e of at accommodations It Is tho the st not only of or food but of ld 1 1 goods which causes people uld 1 1 ordinarily keep house to live shod tho places getting their meals 1 or hotels i lore fare a n to few ow illustrations lIeh the first year of at the tho war Id d in a n. Paris Purls department store cents now cost coal 00 04 O. O Electric j Y Which ICh b before rore tho the war Were 10 sv i.- i. arc 50 0 5 The Ther cheapest t iron r mattress d Or ur spring pring s francs frants or near nearly neary 60 Ariter A A ak k typewriter riter desk not not even ven cost Oak ak which would about In n American department store more L L. L I raw yesterday marked at nt 5 francs I I or about 4 45 15 and a n package of at Writer paper of or GOO COO sheets which borore bo- bo fore rore tho war was sold for tor Frs I 1 yesterday ay bought at nt Frs 1053 1955 5 E cr Everything Every Every- I thing thinS is in proportion Transportation l Shortage There Is also a shortage and contu- contu I alon in transportation People who raised their own potatoes In Brittany during tho the summer aro not allowed to have vc them Den cent t to Paris because tho Uio military laws forbid transports of or po potatoes po- po until tho the quartermasters quartermaster department department depart depart- ment has hns formally Connally decided it does docs not want them There Is ia a n. shortage of ot I freight cars and yet ct a 1 morning paper reports that a n whole holo train of or them has stood unused at Saint Cloud for Cor four tour years Ye Another paper reports leports that at Dunkirk the French arm army loft nineteen cars of DC potatoes s standing ln uncovered to the other night while the civilian population at Lillo lacks Spain Span and the south of oC France to say nothing of or northern Africa are arc I gorgod with fruit the tho smallest tangerine tanger tanger- ine oranges such as grow in any garden gar gar- den clen on tho the Riviera ni cost 10 cents apiece and lemons from 15 lo to 20 30 The other evening I bou bought ht a banana nt at Care Garo de cle I Est It was about the size of ot my 1111 thumb and none nono to fresh tresh Price e CO LO centimes centimes centimes cen cen- times or 30 10 0 cents restrictions pinch tho the hotel guest fuest and save savo money for tho the I etor tor It Is forbidden to servo o but but- I ter tel In any hotel and antI as ns Its price Is seven SC francs nearly n n. pound thu tho hotel proprietors tors rin find 1 it YOn very easy to observe o this tills law It Is la forbidden to servo rolls for Cor breakfast and each cach client has to buy his own sugar su ac according according nc- nc cording to card allowances or half a n pound a n month Continental breakfasts breakfasts break break- Cas fasts ts ha have havo 13 o. n always s 's boon been a n. derision and anda n n. joke Joko to tho the American traveler cler It Il Is Isnow Isnow Isnow now reduced to a pot of at coffee and a fi hujik ik of or broad broad no no butter no eggs 19 no sugar no jam and after 9 I in tho the morning mornIng morn morn- Ing no milk mW Thoro There never never nC was any cream Tho cost f of meals In restaurants has gone gono up tip even on faster than hotel rates It Is now impossible to get a meal but alone alono a l square one ono even c In the most modest bl bistro tro or hackman hangout hangout hang hang- out out for tor less than five ri francs Tho The minister of or food tood supply tried to set a limit on tho the cost of ot a meal b by re reducing reducing re- re tho the number of oC dishes allowed each aeh person and b by making menus uni uni- form torm Ills decrees havo had no effect His proclaimed maximum price of ot twenty twenty ell t t ty francs for Cor a meal has ban become n n. jol joke e. e A At t the ho request of or tho the American army army rho police now require each cach restaurant restaurant res res- tn and hotel to post the bill of or faro outside c so that soldiers going insi in- in si lo to cat eat ma may know beforehand what wh tildes cost But usually tho the ions lons hills bills have havo a 3 dizzying effect Just tro tto samo 5 there thero are aro so 50 many extra It Items e 1 |