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Show Get Loans From "Aunt" In Paris and other big French cities the pawnbroker is called "my aunt." In France one needn't blush in doing business with the pawnbroker, for ha is the state;, that. Is, the government conducts t lie pawnbroking business. It does it very well, too, if I am to believe be-lieve t lie testimony of some Americans who have "traded" with "My Aunt" while awaiting delayed remittances from home. "My Aunt" has had a good year's business. She does little business nowadays with the working-man, working-man, for he Is always in work. Tho center of poverty has moved. It Is the white-collar brigade which, unable to make both ends meet, resorts to "My Aunt." Oddly enough, "My Aunt's" shop In Paris Is on "the II 1 11 of Plei'y." Not a misprint for pity. A, B. L, In World Truveler Magazine |