| Show J HE HER TWENTY FOUR J HOURS OF GLORY Parisian Lady of the le Tub Queen for a Day In the ga gay nineties says a bulletin bul letin of the National Geographic so- so city the washerwomen o or s uses In each quarter o of the city of ot Parts Paris elected a u queen from among themselves es and the queens in their turn ejected a n Queen of at Queens This honored lady of ot the tile tub was borne oa Os a throne to the tile president of ot th tb republic who bestowed upon her a n golden bracelet Among other she received lOO In gold gol a dress which might serve for her wedding gown and aDd a crown which might later be pawned or used as a parlor decoration depending upon tho vicissitudes of or the queens queen's later years Recent celebrations have haye been merely processions of ot floats grotesque grotesque gro gro- tesque or lovely according to the moods mood of ot their designers The queens of ot queens have been ful and fill and with no background of suds The president now presents them with wrist watches Careme's Mi queen for the dayIs day dayIs ny Is selected from the 20 queens who represent the 20 of Paris In addition to these queens there are many more Including queens of ot students hucksters dressmakers dressmakers dress makers and typists The number of queens has hns grown so great grent that It Is now Impossible for each to have hae a separate automobile automobile auto auto- mobile for or herself and others for her attendants so each queen has hils hasher hasher hilsher her car filled with her ladles In waiting The automobiles of the queens are followed by floats which often caricature current events There may be for example the ogre of ot high ligh prices the housing problem and the vulture-faced vulture landlord The route of tJ the c procession Is equivalent to a sight-seeing sight tour of Paris It passes through the most Interesting sections of at the city the Latin quarter the Place de la Ill Concorde Concorde Con Can corde the Madeleine the Opera and Port Saint Denis Deals The procession stops at two places the Elysee palace palace palace pal pal- ace where the president kisses the hand of ot the queen of at queens and bestows bestows be be- stows a wrist watch upon her and the Hotel de Ville Tille where the city fathers' fathers place her on a dais which I Is occasionally used for the entertainment entertainment enter enter- of a visiting sovereign Mid lent Thurs Thursday a is the only day except the French national holiday hollday holl holi day on July 14 when the Paris boulevards boule are closed to vehicular traffic and turned er over to the crowds of ot pedestrians struggling to get close to the tile festival cars Celebrations for Careme Ml-Careme ate are arenow now DOW held held- In Corsica a Italy and Spain Nice and Cannes on the French Riviera stand out however as the cities where the holiday spirit of the occasion Is enjo enjoyed ed with prewar pre pre- war wr zest and where the populace Is not Just a crowd of observers but active e participants In the tIle fun |
