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Show WEEKLY PARIS GABLE LETTER Commerce Invades Haunts of of Boulevard G-ayety; Millinery Flowers Changing With Season; French Parliament Plans Reservation to Washington Treaty Trea-ty to Get Even With U. S. Senate, Blood-smeared Pugilist Told to Smile. j ' PARIS. April i;. (By The Associ-tated Associ-tated Prss. Prosaic commerce, to Itlie discomfiture of the patrons of gaiety, is making Inroads upon that jpart of gay Paree between tlx Made-jleine Made-jleine and the Rue Drbuot, i:nown .simply as "The Kouleva.rU." , "The Boulevard is dying, the boule- Ivard is i-ui " is the nfialanchollo I comment of old habitues on hearing' 'of the disappearance of the Cafe Ain-i erlcain and the Cafe Keopolltath. I iRanka will replace thaae world-famous, "wat giods" Ihbna, which for years j have been the meeting places of fam-' 1 ous men in tiie world of art and literature, lit-erature, j Thirty years ago financial and business bus-iness houses wore ho exception on' t tic boulevard. Gay life commenced; at sundown. There was not a dark, house and rarely was any one abroad in a business suit; evening clothes atbr de rlgltor. Now sombre fa-! Bton heir . shadows over the fow remaining brightly illuminated cafes, and gentlemen gen-tlemen in yellow shoes, soft collars and peaked caps greatly outnumber those in formal garb. TOO MANY FOREH.NERs The Cafe Toroni, where Rocheforl and le Matipaawanl and their friends were wont to congregate, was the first I to disappear The Cafe des Angelais Oscar Wilde's favorite haunt went Inext. Tiien the Cafe Rlche was trans-1 j formed into a bank A tailor occu- Pled the building that once wns the' Cafa Vernon, and now the Zaharoffl Intereata have bought the Cafe Ne- j opolitain Quite fittingly, an American Ameri-can bank Will replace the Cafe Am-encain. Am-encain. The Cafe da Lapaix Is tho' lonly one left of the famous old taverns tav-erns on the boulevard and it in being frowned upon by many old time Parisians. Par-isians. "There are too many foreign -era," the- aver. Modish WDKERI Mil l s I Paris fatdilon is buslng lierself with handkerchiefs' The latest designs have in the corners embroidered figures representing the users' favorite s-poi t such aa ulf. tennis, racing arid fenc-J:??r. fenc-J:??r. The men are being offered ob-long ob-long handkarchlefa with colored borders. bor-ders. The milliners, who have generalb adopted flower trimmings, are reproducing repro-ducing seasonable flowers of changing varieties us the spring advances. They are now using hyacinths, wistaria, i o w slips and buttercups, heretofoit rarely seen on Paris hatSL Blael: and red, blue and gray and I :. eiluw and white are the prevailing color schemes for gowns with hal, shoes, stoc kings, handbags and even i head -"Ax aa to match. I WMKEKN REBEELIOl s. The temper of the French parliament parlia-ment is to adopt some reservation to the Washington conference treaties ns, a mutter Of principle, simply to indi-cote indi-cote that Prance has independence of action equal to that of the United i States. t'i. . : Poincare l.as determined not to make the treaties a question of confidence in his cabinet but to leave parliament free to accept, reject re-ject or adopt the treaties with reaer-vatiOUn, reaer-vatiOUn, His purposu appears to be I tb Bet forth earnestly the reason for ratification of the treaties. The attitude at-titude of the adminlstralon will be expressed somewhat like this: "Here aro the treaties. They are admirable, and we recommend them. but It is for you gentlemen of the senate sen-ate chamber, to decide." tOnON DELAYED. M. Poincare had nothing to do per-i sonally with making the treaties. He accepted them as a legacy of former, Premier Briand' policy on this Bab-1 ject. and he supports Minister of the Colonies ' Sa uraut whom ho retained from Briand's cabinet. 'wing to the bill concerning the. regulation of military service, and :ne other measures, the VVashlngtin treaties cannot bn taken up until June and in the. interval the situation ma: be modified. Talk In parliament. ury lobbies turns esm- la.llv on lh rmv ,1 ; treaty and the need for somewhat Igresvter liberty of action for Prance han is expressed in that document. POET'S PLAY SUCCEEDS. Maurice Donnay. tho poet, who will represent the Acadomlo Francalse at the Aanencan celebrations of the tercentenary ter-centenary of Mollere. begun his career ca-reer at the Chat Nolr, the first one ot tho Montmarto cabarebs whtro young poets recited their verses. He sjils for Amevli a today accompanied by Andrp Chevrillon. also a member i.if the I-Vench aca,6Vem'. Donuay. in reciting Ids verses invariably in-variably satlriied prominent Parisians This caused him to be rebuked and dismissed bv aai UOfaolIng building contractor for whom Donnay was an a ppentlce. The poet was rated as an indifferent indiffer-ent pupil at college, where he wu educated ed-ucated for the engineering profession. Donna.y'a latest play. 'Ia Belle An-gevln" An-gevln" which ems produced for th first time last week. Is scoring a bit VV REX TO sAfTEF - long Oartiog left which Ben I bruista oari .a mw eigii ; pug.. kep nto Gene i Iriqu 'a face throughout the first two rounds Of their fight here last Tuesday, an-! noyed the Frenchman, who. with a Istern countenance, continued boring. !lnto his opponent looking for a knock-put. knock-put. "Smile, smile." Robert Sudelin , Crlqul's manager, exhorted him Just before the third round. "Smile," he1 repeated, "our friends think you're I worried." Criqui, with his face bloody-smeared, retorted. "Look here, Bob. you go In there and do the fighting, and! I'll stay here and do all the smiling" Then Crlqul went in and knocked Cal-liCOtt Cal-liCOtt cold. The Englishman out-1 weighed him by ten pounds. On entering the ring. Callieott knew Ihis father was on his death bed. and ' he learned afterward that he died while the fight was in progress |