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Show I j I ft its? J Ihe thirst for street demonstrations. The -jrowd awaits events without noise Dr bluster. English and Italians are ;: greeted in the cafes with lifted hat or a word of good fellowship. At the hotels ho-tels the English visitors are treated with especial courtesy and deference. ... Americans rank in the popular mind with Britishers as friendly to France. Curfew Law in Force. . The new law is now in force; all citizens are expected to be indoors at 9:00 p. m. The curfew bell warns all at eight, when the cafes close and " 6treets are deserted. The theaters follow suit. The receipts at the Come-die Come-die Francaise on Monday were under '; $90. Twelve of the leading artists have gone to the front, among them Albert ' Carree and Georges Ricou. The Odeon e- theater has lost Paul Gavault. A few is minor cafes chantant still try to draw, H but the Moulin Rouge is closed. Mau-ftarres, Mau-ftarres, the eminent academician, has ioined his regiment, s- The police continue to be on the f;i; alert for spies. Many arrests have ;:: heen made. Foreign residents have to r apply to the police stations for per-. per-. ,. mits to remain in the city. The gates ,.; are closed all around the fortifica-eationa fortifica-eationa at 8:00 p. m. Late arrivals by automobile have to run close ex-1-r amination. Carrier pigeons are the particular objects of suspicion to the ;t"; police. The law of 1S96 for bidding 3 c the importation of pigeons has been renewed. All the gt. shops hi Paris ; ? hive been requisitioned to deposit their stock in warehouses to be heUl till martial av is abolished. Special is-' municipal nurseries have been organ-Ized organ-Ized for the care of infants whose a,, motliprs have volunteered for the Red ; Cross or other work. tens off to fight for his country, leaving leav-ing the bride sobbing convulsively. Women Fill Men's Jobs. The women of Paris rose to the emergency created by drafting the men of the city for the army. Society women took, the place of men clerks in, stores to sell necessities. Young girls sold tickets in the underground stations. Others acted as waiters in cafes. Grocery stores and meat shops were run by women. Small boys were put on as guards on the underground trains. The motormen are aged, gray-haired gray-haired men, ineligible for service In the army. Paris enjoys the novelty of women doing men's work, and the women apparently do, too. The war has leveled all classes. French society women have taken into their homes the destitute wives and children of private soldiers ordered to the front. . James Gordon Bennett I Reporter. The American adventurer gets the same treatment from the American embassy as the millionaire. James Gordon Bennett, millionaire owner of the New York Herald, is acting as a reporter for his newspapers, going daily to the Amorican embassy to collect col-lect "stories." Ambassador and Mrs. Herrick estimate esti-mate that all Americans in the city have now been provided with the required re-quired police passportf It was observed that Thomas Ryan, son of the American millionaire, and Oscar Underwood, son of the senntoi from Alabama, had to take their places in a line of Americans who desired to see the ambassador. Mrs. Howe, a sister of President Wilson, stood hours in line. |