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Show EASY FOR FRENCH PEASANTS American Tourlita Expected to Pour Golden Flood Throuah tho War- Devastated Regions. Commenting on tho American summer sum-mer rush to Europe, especially to tho French battlefields, Customs Inspector Henri Duval said In New Orleans: "I am reminded of a tourist anecdote. anec-dote. "In many French provinces every peasant rnlscs each year for his futn-Ily'w futn-Ily'w uso ono or two enormous pigs. Nothing of Iho pig Is discarded the fnt Is boiled down for lard; tho blood Is mado Into blood puddings; the hams nro cured; tho chops are salted; tho feet aro dried ; tho meat In tho head Is chopped Into sausago meat; oven tho cars aro preserved; an occasional bIIco of car being used to enrich Uio soup. And tho tall? Oh, yes, they uso tho tall, too. It Is utewed with vegetables and contains, they say, a tiny morsel of dcllclouB meat "Uut to return to tho anecdote. An American touring tho north of Franco ono summer before tho war, nsked a peasant what tho pcoplo thereabouts lived on. " 'Pigs, monsieur, In tho winter,' replied re-plied tho peasant, 'and tourists In the summer.' Customs Inspector Duval laughed. "Well," ho wild, "tho talcs of extortion extor-tion I henr from pcoplo now returning return-ing from Franco make mo think that few peasants will bo eating pigs' cars or pigs' talis this winter they'll bo eating trufllcd chicken nnd drinking champagne." |