Show QUARTER LONELY LONEL YI i I Little Lillie Mimi Longs for Artist Art Soldier ier Ii FOOD IS PLENTIFUL By WILLIAM G G. G SHEPHERD United Press Staff Stal Correspondent PARIS April 14 Alls All's well in the Latin quarter Theres There's plenty of or coal and plenty to eat cat for tor the hundreds of gracious little Nimis who are nrc holding tho the fort fort rort In the theland theland theland land of or Bohemia The Austrian officers officers officers cers at nt PI- PI sl w were re no braver er than these girls arc The men are ra gone one hut but the girls Iris are keeping the quarter alive and when the sur sun hor Ivors of or the soldier soldier- artIsts come trampling tramping back rock again to tho the Boulevard Doul San Michel tho fires tires will be burning In the attic grates the home tome lights will bo he gleaming and md Mimi after all these grave tearless days clas will at last find time lints to sob But nut Mimi has had her trials Only recently the th military got ot after her with witha a 3 club When hen the French l aeroplanes climbed Into the sk sky the other oilier night to tocha cha chase tho the big Zeppelin awn away the fly fly- loo era saw fla a tremendous patch of light on the the- O map mall of Paris It was Mimi with the thc skylights of the studio ablaze blaze hundreds of Mimis lIml In fact The shop ke keepers had hlll curtained their windows windows win win- dows tho the hotels had shuttered their French plate pInto panes but Mimi had not I covered tho the studio studio 0 skylights Who ho wants to hurt th the quarter asked Mimi It belongs to the tho whole world But Oho tho hn French mill military tn 1 men disagreed d with Mimi they felt ell sure that a t Zep Zeppelin p- p bomb wound find Its wa way In the Latin JAtin quarter Just as surely surel as in an any other district of Paris Pails So 80 Mimi obeying obeying obey obey- ing military orders spent the next two or three days das rl rigging sheets over oyer the th studio sk skylights lights and Imd th the lute next Germans who cone come over Paris wont won't he be beable heable able to let Ut the Latin I. quarter go 0 un- un bomb d d. d even cn If they thc want to Arms to Lean On Its Ils true truo that Mimi ml has some come strong arms to lean on in ht th these se dark days but they they're re only to be leaned on on not to he be hugged b by into tho the cafe tre du Done Dome tonight a n alame alame lame lamo whiskered young youn fellow tellow will pick his Ills way to a certain table Before lon long two or perhaps three chic little girls will come up and anI greet reet him with a laugh or a playful tap on his cheek cheok or f e ov an n a 1 tug nt nl his and soon loon wilt will be under I little party part way a merry mern Other men will como come to the tho laj table T. T bo be they'll men wont won't bo Ie Frenc Englishmen or Russian or 01 Amt Amei Americans leans will sa say L Leat Lets E Ecat soon some come one oat eat cat Pretty Prett That's a signal for or tho the lame whiskered chap to get gel up P BJ antl and B go away awny wit if o dine ame to going rl ar arc Tf lie known knows tho the K girls ewo worries aw arll well this evening g s so his ti of tho the Tho The girls arc ended th the Who have gone gono to his best hest friends front front If they the dont don't c cal t with someone other nl night ht they ther 1 1 else tonight ht or r any n o of of His little store wl with h him Mm out ca eat Mimi lIml dines she isn Isn't I when mone money And isao who making ln love And toe oc to tho men b wel- wel welcom makes love lovo to lo her He a wont won't bo come com again at tho the table In the cafe fe du Dome Strange arms orm nrc to lean upon but not to 10 fall Into Food Plentiful Theres There's laughter left leel In the quarter juror juror- you'll hear ar It to tonight to- to too For Instance hethe nl night ht and every cr nl night ht in tho studio of oC a certain Russian woman oman artist ShehaN She I has haN money and for 12 C cents ns con nn any o into Kin lrI from rom the tho Latin quarter cnn can como Into her studio seat seal herself el at ono one of the tho l I llong tables and d e cat t a oilcloth covered long ants good meal if she he hasn't h nt the 1 12 cants she can cat anyhow anho And Anti then utter after dinner is over oyer at nl night musicians pIa play and sing sill sillas as the they please walt while hile perhaps a n hundred girls and men sit about and smoke and talc take their coffee and dream war nr time dreams of peace How ilow man many mimy Frenchmen are aro there here hero I asked nuked Dave Davo kr In Inthis Inthis this studio the other evening He lIe looked over o the crowd o of French girls Jirl and variously garbed men and answered Just JUt one one That lame fellow over there is French Tho The other men were Russian Swede Italian American A Mimi sat Bat among amon them and laughed and played or moodily ly saw aw her dreams come to life In cl cigarette smoke while the mu music lc sounded Rounded but her heart was somewhere along don the French front If Mimi lIml has a n lover at the front she receives 20 ZO O cents a a. week from rom the arm army Tha That's ts t's coffee money mone at least And Ami then there thero la is the Work Vork of the Good Fire a charity foundation where for fora rora a few ew pennies she can cnn bu buy a huge hUJe sack o of coal and where if she sho ha has no pennies pennies pen pen- nies she sho ran can get pt I tho ho coal 1 anyhow n |