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Show 'GREEN GODDESS' BACK IN PARIS; FOR AMERICANS By NEWTON c. PARKS. International News SewlojB staff C-nrre-.piident. PARIS Aug. The "Green Goddess" God-dess" has come back to Paris. In any of the big cafes of the boulevards, as well as in the less elegant bars of the side streets, the wallers will. If you happen to be an American and appear to have the price, offer you a bottle of absinthe for thirty-five or forty francs Just now it is tho firm belief of everybody connected with i nfes and bars that every American In Paris Is here for one sole- purpose to enjoy a drink Moreover, barmen and cafe wallers are unanimous In believing be-lieving that all these Americans are absinthe fiends. As a matter of faet, despite the law-passed law-passed before the outbreak of the war prohibiting the manufacture or sale of the once popular appetizer, anybody any-body who 1 ares for It ian obtain nl-the nl-the absinths he desires. Sometimes It Bold an aDtBette, WhlOh It resembles In color anil In the change It undergoes under-goes when wall r In dripped Into the glass In the approved fashion You can. if ou nro known und considered consid-ered aaiet" even buy a bottle at a drugstore with regular medical indications indica-tions of the number of spoonfuls' which will cure your thirst In the old days when the acrid odor of absinthe ab-sinthe floated up and down the length of the boulevards at the "appetlznr hour," people ulwuyu referred to tho drink as a "Pornod.' from the name Of the manufacturer. Nowadays they nsk for "Pernaud," which has tho same sound, or a ' Pernoz," with the pronounced It Ih1I merely camouflaged cam-ouflaged absinthe |