Show A millinery association in session at atlantic city says that american designers will rule the coming styles here is a chance for tho the great american slogan of safe and sane th tho brides sister and the bride grooms mother went along ou on the wedding trip to europe and that was where the bridegroom took to drink in a letter by henry labouchere which is quoted by A L thorold in his life of the distinguished journalist he describes not without a characteristic act touch of humor the extremes to which the inhabitants of paris were driven during the siege of 1870 I 1 went to see what was going on in the house of a friend of mine in the avenue de lImper atrIce who has left paris the servant who was in charge told me they had not been able to obtain bread tor for three days and that the last time lie he had presented his ticket he had been given about halt half an inch of cheese how do you live then I 1 asked after looking mysteriously round to see bee that no one was watching us he took me down into the cellar and pointed to some meat in a barrel it is 19 half a horse he said in the tone of a man who is showing someone the corpse of his murdered victim A neighboring coachman killed him and we salted him down and divided him then he opened a closet in which sat a huge cat 1 I am fattening her up for christmas we mean to serve her up surrounded with mice like sausages on january 6 labouchere notes yesterday I 1 had bad a slice of pollux for dinner castor and his brother pollux are two elephants that have been killed the meat was tough coarse and oily and I 1 do not recommend english families to eat elephant when they can get beef or mutton many ganv ot of the restaurants are closed for lack of fuel they use lamps but even fr french ench cooks when they are arc called upon to cook an elephant with a spirit lamp find tho the thing almost beyond their ingenuity castors cantors Ca and trunks sold for 45 francs a pound the other parts of the interesting twins fetched about ten francs a pound not all the strange foods eaten caten during the siege were as unal hiring on the subject of donkey labouchere says donkey Is infinitely better eating than beef or mutton indeed I 1 do not know any meat that is better let anyone who doubts the excel excellence lenco of cold donkey slay one of these weak minded animals cook him and eat him an eastorn eastern magazine artist Is said to have gone cr crazy azy over the war he roust have been trying to got get the tha hang or of sore of the war pictures tures e wo we are informed that women spend in bou household sebold expenses 90 per cent of all the money eo used in the united states well they know how aviation in war times despite the bullets seems less perilous than in times of peace unless of course a dead aviator count the conundrum itself been figured oat out yet but the answer is that ono one Is a war tax and the other la is a wart az |