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Show FRENCH EXECUTIVE SEE!jyMIWO! President Poincare and Large Party Make -Extensive Automobile Tour. DINNER IS NOTEWORTHY Seven Hundred Bottles of Wine Required to Fill Glasses for Single Toast. PAEIS, Oct. 4. A million Frenchmen French-men havo looked into the plain, friendly friend-ly face of President Poincare during his September excursion through southwestern south-western Prance. In automobiling from Paris to Bordeaux, ho passod through many a town and village. Ho caw 220,-000 220,-000 troops at tho autumn maneuvers in the Toulouse countr-. lie met somo thousands of tho important people of the provinces through, which he trav-elod. trav-elod. His utterances in reply to addresses ad-dresses of local authorities anil at public pub-lic dinners havo deoponed the impression impres-sion that Poincare represents the new spirit in Prance, tho spirit of confi dence, energy and action. The diction of his speecnes has aroused tho admiration admi-ration of litcrarv Franco. "President Poincare and President Wilson are alike In one respect," remarked re-marked a newspapor obsorvor. "Whatever "What-ever they say will bo finely phrased; why either of them has dono a thing will bo explained in the beat possible manner. Were Mr. Wilson a Frenchman French-man he would be a follow academician with Poincare." In Long Procession. The presidential party, which included includ-ed Maaarae Poincare, several members of the cabinet and their wives, traveled in forty automobiles. Thoy took in; tervala on dusty roads of from 300 to 400 yards apart so that the procession was often eight or ten miles long. The presonco of Madame Poincare and other women brought about an innovation at; official dinners in France, It was arranged ar-ranged that the women should also be guests, and bo were the wivoB of the provincial authorities. A white straw hat with velvet ribbons, snch as arj commonly worn in the Creuse, was presented pre-sented to Madame Polncara at Gtnerot. She laughingly took off her fashionable Paris toque and put on the peasant hat. She wore it at lunoh and drove away in it.- the country people cheering. cheer-ing. Four thousand persons dined with the president at Toulouse, When thoy drank his health 700 bottlos of champagne cham-pagne were emptied to fill tho glasses onco. Learns From America. M. Honri Labrouo, history professor at tho Bordeaux Lycoo, rocalls his souvenirs of America in an article appealing ap-pealing for certain rofonns In French Public Instruction. One of the things which particularly impressed M. Labroue in America was the reproduction of the Republican national na-tional convention of 1907 by the members mem-bers of Columbia university. M. Labroue La-broue considers that such a scene would appear somewhat childish to students of French universities on account of tho differences between tho French and the Amorlcan temporamont, but ho use3 it as an Illustration of the immonso difference between the teaching of history his-tory In France and the United States. French professors are not expected to teach their pupils history after 1875, The Frenchman, thorefore, must pick up his knowledge of modern politics as best he can, whilo tho American boy enters manhood fully equipped to tako on intelligent part in the political progroBS or his country. M. Labrouo has much admiration for the manner in which politics and political po-litical scionco are taught in American schools and colleges, and advocates the adoption of similar branches of teaching teach-ing in Franco. |