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Show FRENCH ARTISTS FORM COMMITTEE Brotherhood of Artists to Care for Wives and Families of 2,000 Co-Workers at the Front. Pans. .". a. m.. Aug. 19, The So ciely of French Artists, the National Sot ietv nt' Fine Arts, and oilier groups have formed a committee under th" title of the Brotherhood of rfists to look after the wives and families of 20oo painters, sculptors engravers and architects who are serving with the colors Count Casfillon de Saint Victor, the well known aeronaut, who last year became a Jesuit priest ai ( anterburv England, has returned to join his old regiment and will leave for the frontier fron-tier in a few days A further evidence today of a re- I ll i w in i (li lu ruin'- ji vii.- I tions which prevailed before the mobilization mob-ilization was the reappearance ot flower girls on the city streets The fact that they nad fresh cut flowers for sale shows that the train service can be used for something else than the movement of troops and military supplier. Nearlv all the flowers seen in profusion in Tans during the sum raer months come from the south oi France. The restriction on military orders against the use of any foreign language lan-guage in telephoning still is operative and rigidly enforced. Americans Use Bad French. Americans are not. as a rule, known for their linguistic abilities In speaking with friends, thev often, after aft-er a few words in imperfect French, lapse into their own tongue Immediately Imme-diately thev are interrupted on the wire with the curt instruction that the use of a foreign language is not al lowed They follow protests and expostulations ex-postulations and finally the resump tion of the conversation In French It has some times happened that when Americans were talking In French laboriously and to the bC6t oi their abilitv, they have been told to cease speaking in a foreign language Ex planations that French was being used would bring an apology, but tinkled with sarcasm. Ambassador Hernck is an excep tion Spei lal orders hae been SSUed i.-i mittini: him to i onv ersc in IChl lish. |