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Show CHEERFUL PIS1S I ENJDY GOOD HEALTH ' Few Drugs Used Because Supply From Germany Is Cut Off. MUSIC IS PLENTIFUL Surprising Amount of Gold Turned Over to Government Govern-ment by People. By GEORGES DUFRESNE. 8p-Ul C lil to The Tilbune. PAWS. Spt. .- Parin ban never been in better health nor in better spirit than to(la . During 1 ho Htm weeki of the war, whrn th- -itv wan threatened with a German invaMou and when a long mege ai'ix'nre.i ine i table, all thi patient Rlnerlnfl from ehronie dlMAMI wen ent ihh) and the hospital were . i-lea red. The Parisian! ho rem hi ned were naturalh a little nervon and nit. of itmomnta beeame wry frequent, with the r'ult that the sale of drug increased in-creased cnormou.slv. After the victory vic-tory of t he M iiroe, however, we be-Cfif be-Cfif quite our normal selves again. With the advent of Hunittn'i th-ne maladies, in their turn. disappeared, antl tool v, I am mire, t hen- in no healthier community in all the world than Paris. ( 'no tag bu a difteuieft anI epidemics are unknown, and our few remai ning dott-Oft, whom old ago ha kept from joining the army, have few patient to attend. Drogfi Arc Simple. It in rather fortunate that it ahonld be o. for the do-lorn OfenBOl prerihe any drug? hut bicarbonate of sodn. magnr-;a and various channal tablets. Theur are the only drug left in the drug ftoreo. 1 he war has revealrd the fact that practically all our drugs came from Oermanv or froni hranche of German firms established hero to avoid the ustom anUsa, all of whih have now been 'dose,i Atpiun, which before thr war cost six rnn.n a kilo, is now worth nearl riM hundred f ranes. Brticjhltfi cost thirty. git francs. Hrjro-. Hrjro-. napbtol cannot be had for love nor I money, and we are forced to import I la rge quantities of bromide of pot as num front America. H is rather ! humiliatini: to thyuk that all thene drugs ire derived from coal tar and I wore first made uaofli by a Lyons cheni j ist thirty five yean ago. .Music Is Abundant. Gaiety ha- departed from Paris I such beautiful rouie been heard in our streets as at present. Members of I all our most famous orchestral have banded together and are to be heard everywhere, and concerts that would delight the ear of the most fast id ions lover of music may be heard in Paris courtyards anv day between 12 and '2 o'clock, when these artists are playing to our little midinettes. Perhai the most beautiful music ma v be heard in Kue Richelieu, where a certain courtyard, surrounded by arcades of Doric columns, is always filled by a music-loving crowd listening listen-ing to a famous band of instrumentalists instrumental-ists and several well-k nown singers from the two great opera houses. American's Gold Refused. The large amount of gold which patriotic French citizens poured into the French treasury as soon as it became be-came known that it was needed bv the government surprised the whole world, but the surprise would have been greater at ill had it been known that you had to go through much trouble in order to be allowed to get rid of your gold. French government ofticials are justly just-ly known as the worst bureaucracy in the woild, and they have evidently learned nothing and forgotten nothing through the war. At first thero were in all Paris only two places where you might get rid of your precious metal the Bank of France and its branch office in Place Veutadour. But bad as this was, it was not all, for in some cases the gold was not even accepted. One man fan American, by the way) tells me that he brought 18.(100 francs in French and English gold to the office of the Bunk ofl France in Place Veutadour, and aftes waiting patiently for nearly fchrel hours an employee told him he was not authorized to receive such a large amount from one individual. Pupils Are Grateful. M. Adrien "Mithonard, president of the Paris municipal council, has jitpt received the following letter signed bv all the pupils of the public school in Seppois-le-Bas, a village in Herman Alsace captured by the French: Messieurs: We write you to express bur joy at having become French, as were our ancestors, and we are going to devote our entire energy to learning the beautiful French language. We are especially happy because our parents had taught us . enough French beforehand to enable en-able us to answer correctly all the questions asked by our new French teacher, who told us that wo spoke almost without any foreign a(.. cent. We want to thank the beautiful and generous city of Paris for the beautiful book sent us, ami which we shall keep forever in sacred memorv of the first distribution of prizes in Alsace. Vive 1 'Alsace FrancaisefJ Vive Paris! Vive la France! Then follow the signatures of all the pupils |