Show QUEEN how pans paris chooses a fete sovereign each year mile lucienne joly a hard working seamstress was queen of the french captala cap tal s autumn feast this year pans paris although france Is now a republic tor for the third time her peo pie still seem to hanker after royalty and their taste runs in the direction ot of queens they can t have a regular queen of co arse so they must be con tented with queens of a lower degree who are chosen in various trades and various parts of france with all due ceremony from time immemorial the trades people of paris have celebrated each carnival by electing a queen from among the work mork people whose ch eh ef merit Is unusual beauty the pride of birth being quite an unimportant tac fac tor for the vegetable women select ct their queen the grobeis theirs the fischmar ket makes its choice and so on then these several chosen queens are brought together for an appointed committee to pass judgment on them the queen receiving the largest num her ber of votes Is labed to the highest honor and her title Is queen of the queens it Is a strange fact that for several reveral year with one exception the fish market has furnished the queen of queens tor for this joyous fete this year the business men ot of pans paris inaugurated a fete dAu tomme au dumn feast and october 2 and 3 were chosen as the days for the cele bration I 1 A very ceremonious meeting was wag held in the chamber of marriages at the city hall at which the delegates of 0 mile Lu lucienne clenne jol joly the various business associations as a few days ago for the dim cult undertaking of electing an ephe meral sovereign to preside over this fete the delegates on arriving at the hall found 15 beauties sitting it in state awaiting the decision of the judges the idle butterfly type was not depre dented for the young woman who wag was to attain the supreme dignity of queen had to be taken from the ranks of the business women after a moment moments s contemplation the president of the committee M chal chat anson arose and ano in carefully selected words set forth the ideas which first inspired the business men to bring in to existence this autumn feast the delegates then asked to vote tor for the queen of the fete the situation was most embarrassing gallantry 1 IQ proverbial with the frenchman and to his chivalrous mind it was almost treason to select inq one to the discredit of the other candidates A choice bad had to be made however above each candidate was a number and each del agate simply wrote the number of his hl preference on the slip provided for foy him and dropped it into a box rhe first count showed that the del agates were of divers opinions and nc one of the candidates had a majority this necessitated another ballot billet A signal was alven to the brasa bras band in attendance and in a tm twinkling it was thrilling the assembled people with one of the most exciting i copular airs the music gave courage to the timid and faltering judges so that it was only a question of few minutes before the final note ote was cast and counted this formality over M grandon mas ter of ceremonies announced the re suit and proclaimed the chosen queen to be mile attie lucienne Lu clenne joly queen of the dressmakers a juno like brunette who had recil received ved 41 votes thus ma king her queen of the autumn feast blushing with pleas ire and greatly agitated the reigning sovereign thanked the assembly for the honor conferred on her and the committee then escorted her and her 14 maids of honor to a restaurant where the cho sen one was congratulated demon stra by her relatives and compan ions |