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Show PARIS HAS BALLCN FAD. - New "Sport" a Favorite In the French ' Capital. - , "It is Impossible, on n line day, to : look up into' the- sUy :tlot Paris with out peeliiK 'two or tluee balloons, llko red or jwwn moons, nlloat apiitist tlie blue." Tin' bie;0er. a member of tilts Aero Hub, resumed: ' "On a September Sunday, -tamllro; b tho Aio de Trlouiplie, I counted nine balloons ulloat nbmo my bead. i Tuey wen beautiful In color t.earlet, ' VC blue. wild, fsieeu, white and nobody "VL ' nntrhed tlK'iu. for they were an ordi nary flpeelaele, llko a horse or a peddler. ped-dler. "The balloons, keeping together, floated past the Klrfel Tower. Then a Rst of wind bdzed them, and they rushed with inei edible rapidity towards to-wards Moutmartre You could neo them dropping Band. It looked like a ropo made of elond. a lope that quickly quick-ly melted against tin- blue hky. ''' "ItdlM run balloons In Paris. Chll- 1 a'V.,! dron bo up In them, lint for tho ex- '.frS - - penee, I belleo that every Parisian f5 ' would take a Sunday balloon line." |