Show Mail fail Carriers Repair Men filen and Laundry Agents All Ail Ask Gifts On New Years Year's By Ily WILLLIM U BIRD Special Dispatch to The Standard Standard- Stan all E Copyright 1927 1127 1 27 by y Consolidated Press Pres Association PARIS Jan Tills This 1 This was the i most dreaded of at All all days In the tho year ear to the tir Frenchman for tor It was the tho day of ot are aro any presents given to inaugurate Inaugurato the new year I but the word applies particularly ito to obligatory presents resents of at money to the tho people who servo serve you ou in vary vari various ous ways In Franco tho the postman and a dozen other cate categories orles of aC aCI I toilers expect and If they dont don't get them there Is 13 some lame thing some thine of a row In tho the fI first place there thero are arc three postmen the tho one ono who brings brines let let- letter's letter let letters ter ter's the one ono who I brings brine newspapers newspapers newspapers pers and tho the other one ono who brings packages Each comes In tn turn presenting a a choice chalco ot of cheap cal cal- calendars calendars calendars If It the tir are ar not gener e ncr ous ous enough the th recipient lets you know without hesitation Mr Durand on the tho floor below s-Ive s gives mo me twice as much as that Or Pardon Monsieur but according to my book ook you gave cave me 25 last t year not twenty The Tho man who reads the tb gas ea mo- mo me ter tel motel meter expects too So does docs docithe the team of at sooty individuals Individual who twice a year sweep your chimneys the girl who delivers the morning m milk lk the tho boy who I delivers deliver tho bread and the grocers grocer's clerk who beings you the wrong kind of at su- su sugar sugar ear su-ear gar The Tbt laundry man Inan who loses your OUr monogrammed rammed handkerchiefs and bleaches your our blue shirts to I a apale palo pale yellow ellow and breaks all nil the tir but but- buttons but button tons ton on your r pajamas will bo be tor- tor terribly ter terribly hurt if you dont don't reward his diligence with on the first day of ot the year ea Sometimes the seekers are aro the tho people you OU never saw mw be before be- be belore before fore lore When In response to the usual formula you OU say zay Who ho are you ou they tell you ou that they are the man who repairs the elevator when It breaks down which is h 1 oft ott- often otten oft often en or the tir man who cleans the tho carpets In the tho apartment entry which Is seldom However January 1 Is not as bad badas badas bada as it used to bo be II 1 In z the tho matter ot of postman That Is because tho the post post- postman man the baker baket bo boy the creamery girl tho the chimney sweep sl weep and the rest of ot the pesky tribe are arc moro more and more avoiding the rush by asic Ing for their s several veral days das ani sometimes several weeks In in advance |