Evening Star Newspaper, May 28, 1922, Page 63

“Pourquoi, We Spurned Those Ancient Coifs?” .\ IhgeniousBé‘otle‘g Tricks Sharpen Wits of 7‘ - Cry Puzzled French Girls in New City Hats Officers Who Enforce Liquor Laws. - = As U. S. Misses Buy Discarded Headdressesjp~~~~ ent w | Terenme mmmsa. s ot e g e Quick Thinking and the Hunch Help . MERICAN girl tourists have of La Rochelle, who has Ironed hor| ) {ncle Sam to Defeat Opulent Peddlers of l,..mo“’. il S et 1o T ity a|§ Hootch—Héaree Used ae a Blind With Still in Full Operation—Spare Tires Contain Contraband—Elongated Container Placed in Fire Hose—Female of Species Proves His- 1ibs \! lack it. o strange way. Generous and liberal- § trionic Skill—Graveyard Used as Hiding g Auen: * k%% IN half the whole French country- side the coif remains triumphant. In the north it has long been but a characteriess little bonnet. -In the f 0 what, - and appreciate beautiful things—especially at a bargain. Y Touring through the French coun- tryside, our girls have picked up bargains in coifs. And ythereby hangs a tale. Coifs are the old white caps, stiff starched, of linen, often handmade, or of -fluffy mous- seline or tulle, embroidered beauti- A fully by hand, often decorated with ‘real lace and often monumental in proportions, which French - country girls have been wearing these 800 years past—and are now ashamed of! Our girls buy up the coifs, of course, to cut them up for their old linen and embroideries and lace . But the French girls do not know chased it out, except in Algice, where it is all ribbon. In Normandy and Brittany they boast competing “wonders.” Around Tours and O leans the coif fights for its life. But the girls of Angers sport white head- pleces as splendid as those of Arles, and all through the Cevennes, Au- vergne, Dauphiny, Savoy, the Py- renees and the entire Atlantic coast the old traditions and the fortunate influence of the American tourist girl, with her pocketbook, are tipping the scales in favor of the coif—to make it “fashionable” By a misunderstand- ing. handed,” friendly, kindly, democratic, our .girls, all the same, know what is Place—Ventilating System Comes Under Suspicion. BY LARRY O°TOOLE. BING a prohibition enforce- ment officer is not the cinch job that it appears to be, ac- - cording to statements made B by several of the men who have been intrusted with the work of seelns that the measure bearing Representa- P - this detail ; : tive Volstead’s name is not violated. I 3 1) ” They think they are going to wear rr.';.erj."'.lm.“y..::m:“.uf,:fc'{;f.' n::: i e T i the rich Americans may be mistaken. | ber of special officers would be ap- e e ©Of course, the Americans think' that | Pointed to carry out the provisions of o the colf is fashionable. Otherwise |the prohibition liaw there ensued a Up to the war most European coun- scramble for the jobs and members tries knew that picturesqueness pays. Russian fete days were glor- ious with thebright-colored ‘“koko- chnlk” coifs, Which are features in all_Russian historical paintings. Austria and Italy, where the peds- ants still looked like a comic opera chorus, rejoiced (before the war) not to” have made too much progress. “It is ‘the whi if that ‘ But in France the “costume of the | THE COIF OF THE GIRLS OF ROCHEFORT. TO STARCH AND IRON THE vyou !.o:n".;dwco:\.l:" c.': m:hll: l; .: province” trembled i s 5 s *"‘"w balane. HANDMADE LINEN IS CONSIDERED A FEAT. sald in 1919. The girls of the Ceven- . i . : nes desire to be “as good as cit FREA(.,'H wrllarl.und painters glori- | dandruff or is soiled and crumpled |thused. “I'll sell my hair and wear |girls” by wearing hats l:lut- are thz . ty it. In their hearts the peas- |from beauty's gambols on the green- |the stylish coif!- My Henri says let [right thing,'and yet because perhaps ants love their gay old-fashioned |sward, she sends it to the dry cleaner. | the hair \buyer make it 550 francs|the coif is fashionable they sew & hat styles. Whole sections of France|Prices age going up, but the French |and he can go to work with his scis- | (or up-turned work basket) into the still 1ive upon the picturesqueness of | country girls are in their cruel di-|sors. Otherwise my hair stays on its | top of the historical black lace coif their land and dress. So, they reap|lemma. > head. In case we get hard up we |of the Cevennes—and there you are! & rich tourist harvest. But when| ‘‘These elegant Americans desire to | can mortgage it, can't we?" Do not smile .at the girls of the they would not buy 1t up in this way. But who knows? The Americans are foreigners, and have not the entire French chic. Perhaps hats are more fashionable and they don’t know it. These are the girls of the Cevennes. They had a grand ide ‘Whith is -|truly fashionable—the hat or the coif? In doubt, the girls of the Cevennes have joined the two. the city folks have gone, the harm |Puy our coifs” they argue. “Girls so| <“Mortgage your hair,” exclaimed |Cevennes. is done. They have excited fatal ad- |Smart and well appointed cannot|the bevy. They stick to an ideal (one-half) miration. Girls and youths of re-|Make mistakes in fashion. Dame, | “Of course. The money-lending|while being up to date (one-half). mote villages, misled by ambition, | C0ifs must be still in style.” notary of Le Chateau does it sald |In it they are happler than Russian spend their tourist money to bloom * o ox % the blond. “Now, I know what I'll |irls, who, since the bolshevists have out in city élothes. 5 T Marennes, a fine girl stood by It threatens ruin to French tourist Aby her spinning wheel in the door- trade, for tourists wish to see the 3 way to be photographed. On her head things they have heard about, and|gpe wore with pride just simply the ed by con-|pint of liquor for them, and, of course, | quality, and its use for any length | law permits. It is interesting to note are disappointed to see country girls first wonder of all France. It is an of Congress were besi in city hats. Yet the French govern- | ohiong white edifice of Intricately em- stituents who desired to serve their | his arrest immediately followed. of time will render the services of a | the different kinds of jags that these country—for & consideration, of * x ok * stomach specialist necessary. extracts produce. An old-timer thai ment cannot pass sumptuary Jaws.|projdered, fllmy mouwsseline stretched and the beaux arts commission. |gver two great fluted wings. The watching jealousy, with full Powers|guteq edges gre starched lace. over architectural relics, may not!| -gow much—the coif?” we asked even give advice for the preserving | . e of beautiful old local styles. How shall it tell country girls, “Your coifs are beautiful. Your city hats gare silly!™ THe local boosting syndicates (“syndicats d'initiative”) are scan- dalized and frightened, and as they belong to the big towns of the girls' L ;’:'"fl:m;"ez‘ "C"fdl L"l“’ costume | 4 ;g these Marennes girls are deter- = memc:'l ';m: “:'hz 9::"‘)‘;;: mined to be fashionable, more than all others, for the good reason, close dresscd y | rexscd in the old styles, and even |, no¢ pride amd self-respect, that = take them up to Paris and on tour |y, onnes 4s an all-pants town in to show them off. In vaim, for when |, ° business h6firs. course; but during the past two or “WE found a unique hiding place| “We learned the other day that the | we picked up the other day for in- three months the list of applicants the other day, when we un-|ensraving of labels used on a lot of | toxicatfon declared that he got # not contained as many names of ee! reater kick f: ind of n t had been | Stuff is 2 counterfeit of the imported |greater ki rom a certain ki has c i y earthed 2 long tube that had . . K as formeriy. ed in the fire hose of a certain |labels, so you can see that when peldbe m":“: * * :::edhulldln‘. By unscrewing the |You Pay from $10 to $20 a quart you [that is now being “eddl_"L e for this, |ROZSle of the hose it wils an easy |are getting a cheap substitue, if not| “While we are endeavoring to Tun T ERNE. mu e (Dacee Matter to siip the container in the|a deadly poison, in the majority of [Gown sl cases of contraband liquor and the reasons, as given by those | B ST (R N0 T 13 have hap- |cases. We found some bottles labeled | and intend to have the bootlegEcr in a position to know, run about as pened if the water pressure had been | cognac, and-a close examination of | punished, yet we are especially kecn tollows: turmed on is the problem that is|the container disclosed that the bot- | to Set the individual that sells liquo: “When people read the storles of | U1 (L ) o L er of the building. | toms had been burnt out, the origi- |t0 Young boys and girls. The grecd the wonderful good times that & Pro-| “,o ' "0 b piy have noticed that|nal contents removed and 2 cheap of some of these violators of the law hibition enforcement agent has, they [ B T T T Jandelions re-|and vile substijute poured in, after |has Decome such that they care al are indulging in & very fine plece of | oo 0" "o of the parks. We | Which the bottle was resealed, so the | Solutely nothing about the age o fiction, because the job is about one | Lt LT T L the other day a |purchaser, when he pulled the cork, | the individual to whom they sell their of the most nerve-wracking and un- | MEPRRe 0 To o O Jarge | fattered himself that he was getting | StufT. S satisfactory under the government. |y, . eis full of dandelions, and when |an original package. | her. “Twenty-eight dollars,” was the modest answer. ~ Note the price in {dollars fixed by a _ remote French | country girl to profit by the exchange to francs. We took a walk. But now she knows her colf -is fashionable. 7 % ;v:“ ;xru‘:kn;\'-e had their trip they |~y 0l o ol “Let me give you a few of my ::.‘ e TiGA heD) (s foner ket Dbk : SR GN the early days of vr:hmnmn = e S S Marennes is the great center of the Derlences ‘since 1 have been on the |7 [MIEC SR W0 L eaR. | ((<HESE are cnly a few of the| . Uhe state of Maine they used i “Girls" cry the boosting syndi- k- job. I want to say to you in @d- > bring whisky into that state in china s ~ | most expensive oyster culture. Wor! urement of the washtub disclosed the many devices used in substi- cates, -“you're -hurting tourist trade! ing forel, vance that I am not boosting our eggs. and the memory of this method Put on.your coifs!” ing at the culture, planting foreign o it fact that underneath the soiled|¢ytion. As to the stuff that being | o e EDvihtiom aeiasatly BRI > oysters to give them ‘the green color troubles one airt; ter was a false S ¥ g 3 & clothes and y wate s0ld today, take it up with some chem- | o G5 PO CTIL T Virginia “We had received word that W% | hottom n which was & §00d Quality st and read what his report is, or it was & still being, operatel. bu of dandelion wine. A further search |yoy dom't want to do that, spill some ';":':’h:r‘e"m:’:n‘.':': et f4| of the premises showed other appara- | of it at night on the top of & highly jus' They won't. e and copper taste so much' appreci- Tpal. tn; Sysay L thapnontdn & ated, the girls wear pants, just like But now, they are hesitating. ' The | non All day it is an all-pants town. American tourlst girls have got their | gu now. you see, when twillght bootlegger who endeavored to ship into the district some fine old peach cont m! brandy by a similar method. It was ] . Vi v structed alopg similar lines. | varnished table, §o to bed. and when | .\ S e woat? comes, why, they have got to show “ Fioanl N raa v > : quor. Finally one e L ‘We recelved a telephone message |y, 6 N e folks what is what by being super- rounded the place and searched all| . ! :'_h:rc:.; S :5 s "h:e ::u :’ec‘:: ::;:e n:’onr:l::tl::kn:::l.: his method of transporting his pro- AMERICAN tourist girls-abroad are | fashionable. : e through the house, bt were unable | =% % PC8 SO HOP T O of high- | 1itie ‘waye of ‘bringing/booze fnto the | 2UStS —noth- e . ; doing a beautiful thing—noth When the girls wash up for to discover a single drop. One of our | 25 UL L LN ot had Just]city was unearthed- the other day “I think one of the most ,..,.?1 ways of transporting liquor that we boys happened to remember that this|, .~ 0o cht down from Canads.|when we finally managed to get the man had & hearse out in his EAT8E° | When we got to the place, we found | goods on & man who had been making and we asked for the keys. He de-| "c 0o wriky but orange mar-|frequent trips from here to Baltimore. murred, saying that there was noth-|, , 0. "ipot nad been shipped down|We had him 'under “survéillasce Tor Ing less than tipping the scales to|evening dance and don their two silk save -French picturesqueness! It is|skirts over three linen petticoats, true that they are doing it'uncon-|they put on such ‘magnificent, high sciously. - They buy up the despised |coifs that they are called. “the won- have rur across in some time was that of a man we caught com- ing over from Virginia with a fire colfs everywhere they can, and when | der” ing in the garage but the hearse, and ik A extinguisher filled With brandy. He they got them home they cut them £.8 500 Inasmuch as we had made a thorough [ i JORORIe TWelKer e Ve on someitines X Hlp pad “;"l“” A Dartl” | inaignantly denfed knowing anything up to make rich, beautiful inser-) .\ pARBY, in the Isle of Olerom, search, he considered that we should | 7o at the owner of the|tion in his gasoline tank in Which he| jpou¢ having any liquor and ve- tions, etc. Motoring through the vil- | N "2t "0 0L ")) thetr | THE COIF OF THE LADIES OF OLERON. IT IS CALLED THE “BALLOON™ { "\ o nim further. * goarmaizdekidded e carried contraband fiquor, and. it was|, = .\ 0 oiested” hin innocence. AND REQUIRES AN ENTIRE DAY TO STARCH AND IRON IT. not bo “One way that we found out whoso arranged that he could take .on | ER"Y PO EE O Il “r h-dml h'::flllo::‘:t‘:h;?::r :‘: had stolen a valuable lot of wines |gasoline without creating.any sus- had deemad no longer “fashionable”! | wovy in demand, and in an Oleron |do. Tll start in wearing the coif |made them equal to the Romanoffs, :n:"f:a ,o:: and short of It was we |22d liasor ;vu th:;ou‘h noticing the |picion. We estimated that he had T have seen & colf out Of Which & |quiCink we heard girls talking |again, right off—and so be in the|wear ‘factory-made German hats|nso him surrender the keys. When|PUTCHase of Lhe Jaree ionring carsmade & good-sized (ortune during the aeven-mch squace of rare old Maran- | about Mme. Givet, who, at the age of style. They all know that I've got three years behind the day to prove | mo o o ls" the garage we founa a [2Pd fUF coate by some Dereons who|past year. é daise lace was cut bought at the bar- | gixty-seven, in the year 1921, sold her [my yellow locks, all right! Then |it! They have absolutely sbandoned | "0 °Fl e "son gallon still busily|® few months previous had been| “We raninto a new one a week ago gain price of 30 cents, and 40 cents | beautiful white hair for $60, “but she [when I'm sheared no one will notice— | the magnificent “kokochnik” coifs apiece for old dames’ caps has been |will not sell her coifs for any|just like Mother Givet!” which looked so noble on the heads ;" alike of princess and peasant girls. lages, they give good money to the |y, inan sell their coifs. In spite of peasant girls for the headgear they i, ozent styles, really fine hair is al- Virginia for a month or so, noticed that a man with a small farm kept on buying potatoes every week and he observed that the man did not make ny outgoing shipment. He finally . working for a public corporation. The | when we learned that a lot of men |1 | I la aband engaged in turning out moonshine) Cg T T Derity was the |neld meetings n a certain section|lcChted the still in an old abandoned ity I rather "":.';‘l‘:; ;::mm:h;:.‘::’. Y a8 o be| thing that gave us the line on their |of the city and that all of them seem- well and we captured many gallons of flery liquor. ! currently accepted. But now, less so! | money: A b e bng - I = ™ i 111 ti to . ussian coifs are now an arti activities, and the rest of it was just {al mood n they - » | I:’::’c;'l::l::k:‘::v: Susinet to have "‘O'h;(’?'ke:"?;’ auahed” Nobody N[ SGivetihanEhecy pont ok Ab L} eXDOLE OBIY: €1 9% | used tn the Anal: phase of his busi- | IV PSSO 5 :n:::: ;:0:1‘::6.‘.““6“::1: whien hiats et s e fne 08 coifs in stock by the hundreds, | notices that she has sold her hair.| -Vl like five other girls of these ; STERLING HEIIG. [nest U e other| “The public does not realizs tint|iney were -hoUing “their mestings. (TN £ 2L TS S there is no limit to the hours we When one of our mén went to inves-| (" 0 001 g o arranged bis work, either night or day, or both.| tigate he wastold that it was a lodge | . i ment that he was turning out Fair weather or foul, we are con- |meeting. and-unless you were & mem-( o "o i e very palatable wine. the inside of the spare tires he car- | Stantly on the job, and every obstacle | you could not be admitted. To make| .ye ran across a rather complete s om the back of his car and the |that human ingenuity can devise is|a long story short, we managed 1| quipment a couple of weeks ago of Tily way we happened to get on to |Placed in our pathway. ‘The general |get in and it certainly was some lodge. | oo UL T 0l N this city and o e omat oBe of our men hap.|Public, as a rule, sympathizes, not|They had the mecessary number.of |y certainly was oleverly camou- with us, but with the mia we are|raps on the outer door and-wentlq .o pion an aerial observer g But when a girl like me takes up the | parts. She is posed in a “balloon” which they have picked up for a trifie and sell at dearer prices. They |Colf again folks say at once she has | coir that takes a whole day to V¢ were family treasures. Yet they had | been sheared.” "| starch and fron. Rice starch is used. THE VQl [ EY 7 cost work omly. Girls embroider| ‘At Le Chateau and St. Plefre the |x; oier starch is stiff enough and them while tending geese. Mothers | 5irls all wear the coif!” spokKe UP|qan. enough to give their rigid char- OF PLENTY day certainly had a slick way of bringing boose into the city. He had fitted up a container that just fitted weave handmade linen while the |370ther \» |acter to those concentric fllms of “Be have sold their hair! baby sleeps. Wives make little| .’ ,::::;h'y e tulle so that they stand out in five (Continued on Third Page.) squares of lace while they watch the | " “pardon, they know the colf is|Separate dircles, riever touching! s pot boil. The local speculator seeks |fashionable again, otherwise those| When Mother Givet starts to iron | -HE stuff’s off.,’ says Sweet Caps ?:::fl n:: ::::?}::“,::.‘1::?‘:,_’ after. through a prescribed™~ ritual, » butf Uohy po o et it was part of them out. When they have their nat- | rich American girls in automobiles|a ooif;.she eats three hard-boiled to me in a deep, skered whisper. * % % % when it came to that part-Known &s| ., w.neijating system of the build- « ural cream color from lying Afty |would not be so anxious to buy them!” | e8g8 for breakfast: locks the door S e o LA I .. “for the good of the order,” the.cefi- | ;o s years in a drawer she respects the| A golden blond intervened. and leaves one window open to give | T-6t's beat it ¢ A RATHER anfusing incident hap-| (|7HILE the men bootleggers are| (e stand or table was twisted around HEXEI tint. When the coif is grimed with! «Now, thats good mews” she en- |the -exact quantity of fresh air re-| “WNix’ I days. ‘You fasten that A pened the other day when we more resolute and dayins, Yet the | pringing into view & complete array e s 2 “Bweet Afeiing’ auired. there window! Tm too weak to run ) dspper 1ooking | female of the species is more clever |or some mighty -g00d liquar. Some | THE singing of Sweet Adeline picked up.a very. dappe 5 and other old-time popular bale ing e suit. | than the male. She is more recretive |jodge; I'll say it was.- Z::: ::: ';r:r:ofl':l.(-l!::::‘ln.; rather |2nd she presumes upon her sex in 2| Ope of our men-the-other day got lll" Sl ::'t:'ufn-‘flm::"ml - good-looking automobile. We had |Tajority of cases to prevent us froi |into a place where'Sey were serving : tep sy e r:n‘ % Been informed that this young man |®Aking & thorough seatch of the|corn liquor out_of-a pitcher. The e‘el; oos wan B ronds was making week end trips regularly | Premises where she jperates. If the | man who was sérving it -insisted ; 1: gre e;' c‘ n| : n the Datweun the Monumental city and the {motion-picture magnates could only |on filling the glasses right over the |1t SHome and & S808 FAIC 108 & BECH nation's capital. view, as we do, some of the clever |sink, explaining that if.the prohibition hib! l-n: officer to u_dow( s to wai : “Ho was very indignant when we|8cting by woman bootleggers the |oficer came in he Would immediately | Ver closely a KROwd of e, s stopped. him, stating that he was|DAmES of & lot of new feminine xtars | qump it down the waste pipe and also with SR Srpiad bheh & g s simply coming over to play golf and ‘::ul: confront the pnblic very|empty a bottle of :l:unonln that s ::;: stan e shgrinsy c;r;:r- e ds, but when we de- | #hortly. close at hagd. " ‘was surpris '-Mle' 5 = - 2:&::1;-?:: omn“m- suitcase, he| “Tt Teally is surpsising how many | when t€ken into’ustody. ':";"1": :‘:: fim:*‘:: l:: ;;:rc: stated that it contained some ‘m- |Woman bootleggers theio are in the % % % el g s e portant and confidential papers for | business today, and I want to tell you | ;; ~NE raid that'we made netted us eony en om :. . s d right now that they are a great deal about fifteen 'bottles, all ot ou will, no doubt, recall reading Representative — +in the papers some time ago of & “For a moment We were stumped, | harder to catch than their brothers-| gy cn were labeled embaiming fluid. { o "0 "o oorious origin. The ori- ‘| pecause it might have contained some | In-booze. I got one the other day,|gng from the -tests, our chemists, .. o ., vt A g e lmporiant and . confidential |and she was carrying a bottle of ab- | i, of tnis seuff, it certainly was | 5'% OF (hut fre S the explonOn o7 Gocuments, but when we phoned to |sinthe, the bottle having the label of | yppropriately named. Another lot | fH . - e Rhcaka ho lavie 5F the representative we were informed |& well known French perfumer. When | 4112t we managed to grab was put Saion: aith ThTTOVL that Wik o that he knew nothing about any |I.demanded that she open the bottle |y 5 cans bearing the label, “Dewdly | L\ " Ty s out a vestige of embroidery. In shape|to begin to think about making up aid he know the you she became very indignant, and ison.” for -bugs, -vermin, ete.’ We certain tempera it is a high-peaked cone, like the [their minds to advance en massy, L|PUPSF®: e | clstmad thir T weiks tusulfing Ner. BSs :“‘““; - to. ARt man'e. pustness| 215 nfll.;lleh “-n A:l:ly e:.m;; w‘:fl headdresses of great ladies of the|pulls down the front shades.and |/ : 5 a Mad' ez. | constructed, was shattered an e middle ages, from which it 1s, In fact, | strikes & match and lights up a coal- m‘:: = ;:nx g% o8 aRC WA RETS :“.‘.:::"l o:’fl:":':::‘ ';::: . ::: l:.:.:: Nz:' :»d :‘-mn’x': e ces | fames of ‘the heating apparatus were 'a survival. is n . | chase Bikpesthg thrown against the curtains of the oll lamp and reaches round for some 'We wanted to get an|senators of the commonwealth in the .apartment houses in-the But examine the peaked films. suitable to take the first raw ‘bootlegger. L el among . E ‘ . room. 4 Thay are not wired. They bear-thelr | Lo ot my sspetite—such as -a|FACt:liue en him batore procesding |which she lived, and seodmess Knowe “Some would-be humorist got me g } further in the matter. This chase|Who else, but When I finally got the R o or L B > x oaiiple oL ORRE, 'also led to the Capitol and we bottle away from her she wilted etea gl . Srediont put Into the rlce atatch,| "TheD TIED off I ssés where we Ao {apsedily Iocated the man we sought,|and élaimed that the perfumery, a3 o e e SR The Islé de Re In & brosd territory, | T840 & fatsl misteks, and =y only to find that he had been before |she called it, had been presented t and: Siviog me- the RESbeE with towns, ports, farms and marshes. | 3198 writhin ¥oe 498 T fusc plum bl one of the committees testifying In|to Ker. :::e 1“ rived ‘1 tha place T, tound Yet in its population of 18,000 souls |1apses and folds up inside of myselt| P o ' =00 qrit on alcohol, o “The other day, by accident, we hap- e e six only wiss women concoet and re. |like & concertina. And that explains” | "SICC B L T yy” on ansolute | penied to unearth the hiding place uf | tended to patoh s diminished income ('t WaR & PROIGKTHPULE ©70F BEC EC tail all the starch émployed to_iron | he concluded, Swhy. ’°:' k] m;t ure-fire’ case went up in smoke. & good-sized quantity of moonshine.|by purveying high-class wii and :‘:: _1_‘. pRSY ‘M :"“i: S 7 {ferwoink ou the luat statiten muny “Some time. back two Of our mén |It was in a far corner of algravevard. | whiskies to those of mush Wwealth. B e e i the peaked Rethalse coif. B 'Across the straits are the mainland | “Did they give you elghteen months| - ved & Hip that & bootlek The sulpelt o o pipsmad oy i v o hiding it there ‘was that no one|All the stuff that was captured ‘was | technical definition of a photograph. 1 It was an April fool joke, but if I /{aistricts of Marennes, La Rochells | for breaking into the delicatessen) ° "\ . o 31y trade in = certain o absolutely pure and of a good vint- One of three young girls ‘who pay now, and if they'll give me about five for lessons stirs the starch incessant- ly. The second brings the starch by | Minutes among the vitties T'll be too full to run. Either way,’ I says, ‘i teaspoontuls, bolling hot. The third a pinch, and,’ T says, ‘we'd better fate girl, close to graduation, helps the ancient dame to rub the'starch in|it on a full stomach, than an empty with & #heep's bone. - Z A T e e ] “™But they'll have the goods on u while the ironing still progresses, the | he says. coif is supported nevertheless in a| *‘Son’ I says, ‘It they'll only hang framework of ribbon on wooden | back a little we'll have the goods in stiips, and two girls hold 'a rounded |us. They won't have no trouble prov- wooden “backer” up behind this film | ing the corpus delicatessen.” I says, and that, as a species of ironing- not if they bring a stomach pump board-in-the-air! Five irons of dif- |along. Bar that window,’ I says, .| terent shapes are used. ) let joy be unconfined.” Three ‘oifs are admittedly great| “So We fastens her up from ironing jobs in all the district. The |inside, and while we hears the Isle de Re is noted fop a young girl's |aroused and infarlated populace sur- colf, apparently qul simple, with- | rounding the place and getting ready t _classes ' of bootleggers and there is quite a so- cial distinctiva. - In fact, some, time ago we captured & copple: who were socially prominent. . Another was a refugee from a forelgn shors who in-| samer stiffness is an unknown in-y ; s (Bsebt top S i s u ik oy, b Bvpi b Bk brreriBeray Lo s b ever lay my hands ou the individual ' i IR wanihe 9f ) Fmiarpeniail slent s | Sim wnd segiatering aa young min- |the fact that he hadn't any left hind| “We have had a gosd Meal of | who got me out uY bed &1 FIAC WOW, ) !tlln.nlcsr:‘yne;ll‘nl:.homwuau p us ] >t ? g ‘of & rabpit. : trouble,_with men and wo i who “l::r:;.:rnll‘ eu, S ant . A : = Rochelle. 2 full lace ; ; Y B ft that 13 ]sold so-called ‘extiacts that coritain ajam permanan : TEE “IEIRD COIF WONDER OF FRANCE —THAT OF THE GIRLS OF|and embroidery. The concentrie{the ~ [ motdl. - They finslly. managed to get ‘A good deal of the 'ffl ; LA ROCHELLE. o~ S ~fims fall on each other'at the front, . i ! ; obe of the liotel Delboys to secure & lcoming into the city is of:tho poorest | larger peroentage of alcohol aan g 3 o