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Show "BOTTIEFIELDS" DRAW TWEET French Offer Thirsty Folks Variety of Ways to Drink itv GRAX1 GORDON (Copyright. 1922. by The Standard-Examiner) Standard-Examiner) PARIS, Nov. 4. A resident of Fails Is somewhat puzzled by a letter from an old crony In America who says he is coming over to "visit the bottle-fleldfl bottle-fleldfl of France." Me Js womb-ring whether the spelling was Intentional or accidental. "Thfl trouble ls," declares tho recipient re-cipient of the letter, "that if he Is i oming to visit the battlefields' I won t see much of him. for I have never had any curiosity to re-visit the places that I last saw In November, 1D1. On ln- other hand. If he really wants to Visil the 'bottb fh-lds" I will be only too delighted to reflght tho battle of Paris with him." And It Is a curious thing how many Americans who come over saying thoy are going to visit the battlcf leids. manage man-age to content themselves with the hottleflelds. Then- aro those, to be sure, who go out to the front, but they are fewer than most people suppose, MANx WAYS TO DRINK. Whereas bottleflclds are near at hand, and plentiful. There are many ways to drink in Paris, of which tho worst Is to visit me jom-in.au oars. amu iniu let ii le said figuratively, Is tho wuy most American visitors seem to choose. In tin. region that lies between the opera and the Madeline and for a couplo of hundred yards roundabout, there must be I I don't know that anyone has overcounted over-counted them), at least 60 of the said bars. i And new ones are constantly opening. open-ing. Some of them have American bartenders. bar-tenders. Others have English bartenders. barten-ders. A few have French bartenders Mont, however, seem to have bartenders barten-ders that only a rash nature would attempt to guess men who speak almost al-most any language and always with a Blight foreign accent that defies analysis. analy-sis. Each of these bars has Its throngs of habitues who seem to bo unionized n tho eight-hour btiRls. Who are they 7 Wheneo do thoy draw the wherewithal to buy Scotch at five francs a throw? Apparently thoy have. i;ome. business that occupies them. You he ir them whispering together in groups and enough trickles out to reveal re-veal thero ls some business deal at utake WOMEN ADMITTED, Some of the bars are pretty cloeo to tho original American article Others Oth-ers are not Not Infrequently tho latter lat-ter will have a row of high stools along tho front llko a soda fountain.) Sometimes women are admitted, which usually means that there is a string iof women hahltucs who belong to the Oldest profession In the world. That ls ono way to drink In Parle. 'and, ai I sav, it la Liut laast MMMmatim. I Why so many American visitors adopt it is a mystery Another way, and one would think more alluring, is in the regular French cafe, an even more numerous Institution. Institu-tion. Although slneo tho war some of !he most famous cafes on the Im-u1c-ards have disappeared to make room for branches Of banks. It Is still true that most of the ' big" corners In Paris are blessed with cafes. Tho most famous, fa-mous, of course. Is tho Cafe- Do Ivx Palx. right on the Place de l-'1 tpera It ls here that legend says you will see everybody you know In Europe-pass Europe-pass by ,1C you sit hng enough. MOKE THAN DRINK. At tho cafo one gets more than a drink for tho money. Ono nits comfortably com-fortably and reads a paper or talks to one's companion, or stares at the peoplo at the neighboring tables or at tho passing thronxs Those are the two principal ways to drink in Paris I am speaking of casual cas-ual drinking during tho day. Tho latter lat-ter ls, of course, the French way, ol- though the bar habit ls growing among Frenchmen, and tho cafe Is no longer . th Institution it used to be. But while the cafo Is passing, it isl far from past It Is still possible to j have one'e favorite cafo and favorite table, and to spend on hour thero in Hho afternoon or evening, playing dominoes, dom-inoes, checkers or backgammon, If one prefers the inside. An |