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Show GUY PARIS HEARS THE CURFEW BELL Martial Law for First Time Since Siege of Paris. CALM FOLLOWS GREAT NOISE War Scenes In the Frivolous French Capital Citizens Must Be Indoors by 9:00 P. M. Society Women Take Volunteers' Places. Paris. Martial law Is In force for the first time since 1870, -when Paris was In a state of siege. A visitor unaware un-aware of the situation would fancy himself in the midst of a national festival. fes-tival. This is on the outside oly, for every home has its mourning. But life sits lightly on the Parisian. The whole city is beflagged; the streets are a mass of color; hardly a building is there that is not gay with bunting. The English flag is conspicuous conspic-uous everywhere. In the streets hawkers do a roaring trade selling little flags for the buttonhole, but-tonhole, one the national tri-color, another an-other the combined colors of the triple ' entente'. Horse and motor traffic are almost non-existent. Luckily the weather keeps fine. Immense crowds line the boulevards and chief thoroughfares. Quietness Succeeds Noise. A noticeable feature is the strange .quietness which has come over the people. Wednesday there was a continuous con-tinuous roar; processions followed one another continuously Thursday it was as though the nation were dwelling on the death struggle with its fiercest enemy. News sheets were snatched from runners for news of the Belgians' heroic he-roic opposition to the German advance. But, above all, the certainty that Eng-Jand Eng-Jand is going to stand by transformed The third day of mobilization was tne big departure day. Men from twenty-eight to thirty left ty the northern and eastern, stations, which are barricaded to all but the military Five hundred train loads left in one day. AH was done in good order, with an absence of noisy manifestations Many husbands break down when bidding bid-ding wives and children adieu. On the boulevards a superb automobile automo-bile driven by a white-bearded man bears an inecrlptlon that it is for the free use of mobilized soldiers going to the eastern stations. As each soldier hails it and enters the old man hands him. a well-stocked hamper and the crowd cheers. The famoue dressmakers have closed their dobrs. From the front doorways the mldinettes stream out, carrying tricolor tri-color banners. From one establishment establish-ment fifty young women emerge. At the head are three pretty girls who hold between them a huge banner. The rest follow, singing "La Marseillaise" as they march up the Rue de la Patx towards the boulevard. Americana Offer Services. "In the Montparnasse quarter, Holy Trinity lodge, a meeting house and hospital chiefly for the use of American Ameri-can artists, sculptors, etc., is now transformed into a military hospital. Tho members of the lodge unanimously unani-mously offered their services for military mili-tary work. As the German ambassador left a street urchin crept through the lines of soldiers to the railway car. As the envoy entered the lad called out, "Give my compliments to William." . The crowd enjoyed the joke more than the departing guest. A smartly gowned young woman has on her arms a lad of fourteen,, dressed in a Russian naval suit with a cap marked "Russia." A guard passes. The boy leaves his mother and cries at the top of his voice, "Long live the French army." The officer stops hie men and kisses the boy on both cheeks. A correspondent was approached by an officer In uniform and asked to witness wit-ness the civil marriage of one of his men. Soldier Delaporte Jean Marie was united with Chomel Caux. Kissing his bride and shaking hands, he has- |