Garfield County News | 1926-12-10 | Page 6 | Too-Frequent Floods Try French Patience

too frequent floods try french Pali patience ence tho the recent floods in france produced abundant illustration of the fact that the first household article which the frenchman rescues when his home is s threatened with inundation is the mattress strangely enough the bicycle comes second hardly an exception to this order was noted by a correspondent who watched boatmen moving the inhabitants from one of the paris suburbs the women were dry eyed and stern as they were taken from their flooded homes but obviously were laboring under great emotional stress in which rage predominated this is getting monotonous said one seventy year old woman who was forced to move to escape the floods in 1910 1920 and 1924 this sort eort of at thing might inight be bearable once in 0 years but four times in 15 years is a little too much