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Show Permissionaires in Paris. At the Gare de l'Est you can see the permissionaires come in by hundreds. They are of every age and grade. There are clean ones and very dirty ones. They slouch and they strut, or they walk with that peculiar trench walk, with the feet close together. They hang about the station entrance to buy post cards and aluminum rings, which they give away to their friends as presents from the trendies. Little family groups are waiting there for some of tbem or it may be just one woman with a baby in her arms, or a woman in mourning for the son who will not come home any more. With a tine contempt for such things as dust and mud ami the public eye, the per-niissionaire per-niissionaire is embraced warmly by his relations and they carry him off in triumph on the train or in a taxicab. Cartoons Magazine. |