Show THE POSTCARD CRAZE paris postmen ordered to the seaside en masse paris sept 24 there Is a block in the paris postoffice post office caused by the ab senca bf the clerks nun ibers of whom are dally leaving for the country picture postcards are at the bottom of the trouble every frenchman on his holidays dispatches hundreds of them to let his friends see how he Is enjoying himself they choke the lc ter boxes and incite the clerks an postmen whom they remind of the delights of the country to try to get away themselves this they contrive to do by means of sick leave from the doctors who resenting the increased con write the sick leave orders offhand As a result M berard the undo secretary of state for posts andr fele graphs has sent a circular tors complaining of this too reada benevolence which leaves the bubli without its letters in one office of employed emp loyes no fewer than eighty he states notified their bluet on the sami day that they were ordered to thu seaside M berard requires that when the postoffice post office doctors order clerks ormes or mes a country holiday on account of fatigue overwork or anaemia they must give the department a fortnight or months notice this stern measure he trusts will acm edy the abuse after some of the officers and men of the english fleet now in the baltic had visited haarlem near amsterdam on friday last postcards were found in the letter boxes paris sept 24 the first installment instalment of the much discussed loan which the sultan of morocco raised from german bankers has been put to ludicrous use it the tangier correspondent of the echo de paris is to be credited the sultan has spent 2500 on im porting a party of egyptian dancers which he proposes to install in bl pal at fez he sent a telegram to alexandria on saturday asking that ho dancers should be sent by the first boat and wired to cover their expenses mexico city sept 21 the mexican branch of the Y M C A has been inaugurated with vice president cor aralas ralas honorary president of the association cia tion there is also a branch tor english speaking young men |