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Show LORD GURZON IS GUILTY OF BLOW AT DLDCUSTOM British Foreign Minister in i ' Paris Actually Carries Own Package When Hasty Has-ty Delivery Is Required PARIS, Oet. 14 (By A. P.) A ientl. man does not carry packages In Paris, j but Lord Curson. the English foreign - minister, during his flying visit last i week, delivered a severe blow to that j old Parisian prejudice. He found time between conferences with Premier I Polncare to do a little shopping and. ! being alone and In a hurry, he carried hla purchases In a small package, much to the surprise of th. few Parisians I who recognised him. A melon, however, may bo carried ;and It Is th. sole exception to the bur-i bur-i dens that a gentleman may bear. The carrying of a parcel has a humble sta-I sta-I tlon In life. Carriers are always Invlt- ed by the Janitors to take the service stairway and to stay clear of the main staircase. The exception of the melon was established es-tablished by the late King Edward VII of England, when Jie was Prince of Wales. Tempted fy a luscious melon, his highness bought It and carried It to hla apartment. The porter was so shocked at seeing the prince with the melon that he railed all the servants within hailing distance to view a gentleman gen-tleman performing a cook's work. "Why. that th. Prlnc. of Wales. said one. "Well." remarked the porter. "If that'a th. Prince of Wales, he knows what Is proper all right." Sine, that day It has been good form for a gentleman to carry a melon on the streets of Paris. With the popularity popular-ity which Lord Curson acquired in th. past few weeks here, he could doubtless establish a second exception by making mak-ing known what his packages contained. con-tained. Napoleon Romsnettl. who. In recent jdsys. has enjoyed great vngue In the j Coralcan woods, hss protested Indig-i Indig-i nsntly agatnat misrepresentations by a I group of tourists. Returning to Paris I from a tour of the Islands, a party of j French and Americans pictured him as la bandit of the old Corslcan type and I described how he "shot up" the town of vlxxanova. The tourists said thst he demanded a heavy ransom from all I the guests of th. leading hotela. i Romanetti admlta certain differences I between himself and tne gendarmes, i These differences, he says, maks the air of the brush more salubrious than the air of the town, but It Is a matter between himself and the gendarmes. As for shooting up the hotel and ransoming ran-soming the guests, her. Is his v.rslon of th. affair: "S ps'-'y of toiiel.ls, ellmWwg the mountain on muleback, atumbled upon his retreat. Ho greeted them politely and entertained them ao cordially that the tourists Invited him to return their call at their hotel. Romanetti, the following fol-lowing evening, like a true modern, self-respecting bandit, drove his high powered car to the town and placed sentinels about the town before making his entry. This sctron spread consternation conster-nation throughout. It was not until Romanetti assured the guests thst ther. waa no danger that they were quieted. He then proceedd to Inspire the hotelkeeper with the proper Idea of Corslcan hospitality. "A bottle of champagne for every guest.-" h. shouted, giving his order. Kvery guest waa obliged to drink hla or her bottle. A second bottle for each one followed with the same Injunction, it was half past two In th. morning when Romanetti sought the mountsins sgsin, leaving th. guests, according to his own story. In such a state treat they did not glv. clear evidence of what had occurred. "It was th. champagne." he remarked. re-marked. "It waa all champagne, that ransom, story." A movement Is being started to oh-1 tain the canonlxation of Loula XVI, guillotined by the people of Paris In 173. Cardinal Dubois, archbishop of Paris, haa not yet taken any action regarding a petition having this for Its object and now circulated as the preliminary pre-liminary steps In the formality. Mon-slgnor Mon-slgnor Baudrtliart. rector of the Catholic Catho-lic institute at Parla, refused to sign the petition. Many delicate questions have to be settled. Among them Is whether he was a martyr, and If so. whether a martyr to hla faith or a political po-litical martyr. |