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Show LIFE IN AMERICA BROUGHT WORLD - .. i Former Premier Served Librarian and Later at Equestrian Instructor and ! Married Girl in Boston ! PARIS, 8pt. $0. Former Premier Clemenceau haa become remlnlacent (ilnoe he decided to vialt America next I November, t'lemenceau waa 2& jreara J old when, aa a young doctor. ie landed I In New York ftfty-alx years aan. and poltlon he held for two yeara. The l gnxaled old "tiger" aayl theaa two yeara were among the happleat of hia i long life. The reading public did not i patronise the library much tn those I daye. Clemenceau aald. Therefore, he i was able to seclude himself am una; the books and spend most of his time read-, read-, Ins; tbe best philosophers and hlto-' hlto-' Hans. There my mind acquired what It lacked and my Intellect completed Its j formation," he aald recently. It was after this that ba became pro-' pro-' fessor of JYench In a school fur youns ladies at Stamford, Conn. A school i miatress, who waa a - practical soul, .learned that he waa an accomplished horseman, and requested him to ac-;comMiny ac-;comMiny the girls on their rides across ! the country. It was thus that Clemenceau Clemen-ceau fell In love and became engaged I to Miss Mary Hummer of Boston, whom he afterwards married. Bhe la the i mother of hia three children- i Clemenceau returned to France In 1169, and a year later came the Franco. 1-YusKian war. As mayor of Mont ma r tre, riemenceau beyan his political career ca-reer which has lasted for upwards of fifty years, 1 1 i The ambition of the ultra smart Parisian woman thla fall in to nave the complexion of a Hindu maiden, i henca many dusky hued women have made their appearance In the well I known tea rooms ami cabarets. A in- ochre colored powder rives -the desired .shade to the skin. The powder alao Is I applied to the hadns and those portions j of the arms and neck which are ex-j j posed. To obtain thy effect, cold co-mm j : W thtvouchly rubbed Into the skin i first, then the ochre powder 1s care-l care-l fully spread over it. The dark hair of the averaae Parisian woman, together togeth-er with lip and face rou?e and skill-1 skill-1 fully used eyi-ltruw penciling give a t striking; effe-t. I j The fad was first Initiated by a few t j act reuses. j M. Pnrmentier. special financta! rep- reaentatlve to Washtnrtcn. haw i. -j ttirm-d to Krunre and baa had a ureal i I dew I to say in praise of the lavlah hos-, hos-, pitnlitv he encountered in America. He i seems to have been arf Icularly struck by the amount of excellent chumpaiKn he found tln-re. His one criticism la that melon appeared rthr loo frequently fre-quently on the American menu. MI. I'armentier said he liked melon, par tlfularly the American variety, but tt ws melon for breakfast, melon for i litm h and melon aaaln for dinner. "Then." he added. " had discussions 'with Mr. Mellon of the treasury be-j be-j tween meals. I Better rldinc automobiles, which are strong enough - to travel the war s heritage of rough roads at the amallest I possible cofft will be a lending offering I of Krenrh manufacturers at the automobile auto-mobile show opening next Wt-ant-sday 'at Champs Klyxcs. Hmnll uikeep Is the chief concern In Franca just now, as gasoline costs 76 cents a g-tli ui awl oil about 40 cents a quart. Krnall ten horsepower cars are mora popular than ever this year. "War widow. 7. chi!d?ee, earning 72ne franca yearly, and with war pen-; pen-; sion of HO0 francs yearly, poaseaning jing 4.00 francs capital, seeks corre-jspondence corre-jspondence with a view to marriage." Tbe foregoing advertisement, which appeared In Postal France, has started diacussion as to whether the pennon law shoufd not h reviaed to prevent widows using their government pn-j pn-j slons as an attraction o ae-ure new i huabands. Also the auggeation has been 'made frequently that chtdtewt widow employed by the state should not be jpeniloned. When the pension law was j paed. it Is pointed out, a c la usr depriving de-priving widows of pensions on re-, re-, marriage waa rejrtj on the ground jihat It would encouraxe Immorality by ; tempting such widows to live with their lovers without going through the iuar-1 iuar-1 rlaga ceremony. |