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UNDER THE ENEMY. NEWEST PARIS FASHIONS. HOW AN ENGLISH WOMAN DIS-SHORTER SKIRTS, NO STOCKINGS

SEMINATED THE TRUTH.

One of the surest signs that things are approaching the normal in Paris (writes The following is an account of the the Daily Telegraph's Correspondent on personal experiences of an English woman ay th) is the glass of fashion at Long- who, with the help of a few trusted Bel-champ Races and in the Bois de Boulogne. glans, distributed The Times in Brussels Certain women who pass for being elegant | for 18 months during the German og have sprung a surprise among the morn

ing promenaders in select portions of the eupation :

The first capy of The Times that I was wood by appearing without stockings. able to get during the war was onte Lob-They had replaced stockings by ocks Cained through a waiter at the Palace which ran an inch or two above the boots. Hotel in Brussels, an old jorkey, who With,sunner weather in spring, the silk [knew English, and waited all the stockings of the elegantes have become Koltured Germans, from the Crown more diaphanous than ever. Their trans- Prince of Saxe (whose monocle he annex-parency has increased with the intensity! ed downwards. An other left a copy of of tlu heat, and has reached such a point The Times on the dining table in that as they no longer veil the limbs the September 1814, The waiter quickly launchers of audacious fashions argued picked it up, and by the time the owner that they might be conveniently dis had returned there was no trace of it--pensed with. Besides, silk stockings are the very expensive. The opinion of and it finally found its way to me.

Later I was able to get the newspaper vendors, however, is that the fact that they very regularly. One of the Laeken fire-are dear will kill the new fashion--this

en managed, Heaven knows how to get and the offence against gand taste.

Diligent students of the fashion baro a 'copy of The Times almost every even- ing which he brought to me about 11 meter record that skirts have been shorten- o'clock to trainte the most interestinged by several inches in three years. war items. At midnight 1. heard the Longchamp Races yesterday they were A feature of the handle of my front door rattle, and knew seen at their shortest. that it was the fireman back to fetch my toilettes was a sort of wrap which sug rested that the wearer. had emerged from translation and his newspapers which, by the way. I was very glad to get rid of,her bath. There was also a robe resem

roomy pantalon as the German sentry was 30 yards from bling the

Zouave soldier. my door. Then in the right this ener When we come to unsenline modes it has to be said that whatever may have

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getic man typed the translation into romaniques, which were distributed to trusty Belgian selers and found their the fate of the silk hat in other countries. it bad never passed into com- WAY into every nook and cornés

{plete désuetade in France, One always Brussels.

saw it at receptions. But its use is no

of

One by one, however, the sellers were longer confined to ceremonious occasions.

rua down and arrested.

AN EARLY MORNING VISIT. Then the secret police gave me a call e morning early in October.. 1913, and arched my house from roof to cellar. Their only plunder consisted of copies of the National Anthem a letter had re erived from England, and also an illus teated Belgian newspaper dated August 15th, 1914, which was taken because it captained a photograph of the review of the English Fleet in July. 14. My letter aroused their curiosity as it bore the seal of the United States Legation, and it was minutely read through

It is coming into its own again Silk hat some with brims without much curve, could be counted by bundreds at Longchamp.

SENSATION IN

HIGH LIFE

RUMANIAN PRINCE ATTEMPTS TO COMMIT SUICIDE.

A San Francisco special message to the dah reports an atterapted suicide on the part of the Rumanian Crown Prince, whose departure for Japan on a compli

entary mission to the Japanese Court had been ann

announced.

According to this story, he was dis- covered just in time to prevent him puli- His life

As it was a year old I had forgotten the contents, but peeped over the Ger man's shoulder to see if it contained any thing uncomplimentary to the enemy and I saw at the end the D: Fortung the trigger of his pistol.

was saved. but in the struggle that ately being in English. it took the Ger- ensued, he got injured in the leg.

"It is explained man a little time to read, while I was

that the Prince fell in

# with

neither of royal blood searching for some pretty word in Englore lish, beginning with a d

For of wealthy connections, and, the affair

much notoriety Finally I was asked. Und what is having gained das to which I promptly answered: Bukharest, the Queen, who was greatly concerned, attempted to separate them, The Darlings,"

but none of her admonitions find effect.

Recently, a child was born to them. WES his father, King Ferdinand, who equally anxious, thought that if the Prince had a tour of some months' amidst the beauties of Japan, for which the purposed mission afforded oppor- tunity, it might cure him of his attach

"Oh yes, the darlings," be replied, sceptically.

I could not resist answering. "Yes, over the left"

He plunged my letter into his pocket with an expression on his face that threa tened future reprisals, but I was too in dignant to be intimidated.

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I was still in bed when the two Germans

It is rumoured, says the dispatch, that entered my bedroom. I was greeted his grief at the coming separation from with We are here by order of the his sweetheart drove the Prince to attempt German authorities to search your house. suicide.

for newspapers." 1 answered, Well, search." I was obliged to dress in their presence. As it was just 10 days after Sins Carell had been shot. I consoled myself with thinking that it was certainly the lesser of the two evils. Then the questioning began:-

You have had English and French. newspapers here, within the last fort aight.

I answered. No. not since the begin ning of the war."

Well, we know you have," one of the Germans answered with a leer,

Oh. if you now my affairs better than I do there's no more to be said."

I answered quiet'y.

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What has happened to our conversa; na 'tional manbers 1 The war has altered then; but while some people consider that it has improved them others think it has sent them to the dogs. The only point of agreement is that they are different from what they used to be.

For instance (saya a

Home paper) the elderly managing director of a sedate City company was a little surprised the other day when Major Crasher, the stock- the What will you say when we show you broker, fately demobilized from

"I may ex

ended a business talk over the the proof! he continued

with the phrase:

Rights, my telephone plain that he was a lawyer and had been. employed by Princess Louise of Belgium dear old bean!

Then the young lady clerk who used in her action against her husband, Prince

to be in the War-Office rings her mother Hello, Philip of Saxe-Coburg,

answered. Show me the procis first ap from the City, and excalins

ofd thing I shall be going to the theatre and you will hear what I have to say

Ta-ta, old afterwards. I did not wish then to to-night, sn don't wait up.

creature! know that I understood German, which

The

who was in the O.T.C. young man had learnt at school at Hender, a slaps his father or the back and says: thought they would speak more free say, old china, why don't you get a before me if they thought I did not under-

Trim yourself up a and Ishould learn more of their few new clothes?

bit-ch? You'd do with a new hat, too. intentions.

Rotten old hat you're

Well, so long, gut. you buy tho, hop, off, old sport, on you'll raiss that train

Did our great-grandfathers address dur

but familiar, style after their return from the battle of Waterloo!

you don't speak the truth you will be more severely punished, and we won't believe & you say, I was told, and

I made a mental note that they had no

I re-great-great-grandfathers in that cheerful,

Me

I never

certain knowledge of the affair.

ed. It

any one tells. plied, believe them again either."

The man added, You will be suminon. ed to the Kommandantur to confront the witnesses, to which I replied: I shall be very glad to see who has been telling lies about me.

"

A few days later I was summoned to the Kommandantur, and told that a young Then he turned on me and said: "You girl, supposed to have had the papers had confessed, to which re- are English. Aren't you Babamed that after

bfied: I do not believe it; if so, she we have to search your house?"...

lies. Tell her to repeat it in my pre- I looked him up and down with scorn lies,

The questioner fetched a cross and said: "It is not by my orders that eyed oficer and discussed the matter, and you are here. It is not the first time you have searched people's houses, and I don't as they knew that it would be useless to fetch the young girl I was allowed to suppose it will be the last.'

retire.

FURTHER SEARCH.

•No answer:

The younger and the more spiteful man then went to the upper storeys, where he mistook the English flag for a coloured curtain. It was lying between my cur teins in a box. The elder continued to search in the kitchen. I had burnt letters I had received Iroza Miss. Cavell bearing on her arrest, as I knew that the Germans might be expected at any moment.

I remarked: "I shall light the fire.

sence,'

After this the girl and I were summon ed five or six times, and finally I was condemned to 15 days imprisonment or On December 7th, 1915, 42 marks fine.

was able to get away in a train under the protection of the United States Lega tion, and went to London,

tinue the distribution of The Times, the When it became too dangerous to "con- Belgians had to fall back on Dutch news took some wood to light my dining papers for any news of the war apart rodin fire; it was cold; I had had no from the lien -posted up in Flemish French, and German all over Brussels. breakfast, and they had forbidden the servant to make me a cup of tea: Not If, however, their news was in favour

the Allies, risking a refusal by asking permission,

Dutch newspapers were not the allowed to cross the frontier."

On one occasion I was very puzzled at Getting no answer, I took some wood and reading on the walls of the Brussels Town to light the fire, when I caught Hall an extract from The Times, which sight of an extract from the Matin, which said exactly the opposite of what it ought I deftly dropped into the stove with somer

to have said. The explanation I heard other writings which were After three hours' search all they found later. The extract posted up by the Ger was an illustrated newspaper, and my moans as coming from The Times wAS AL letter, with the dreadful D

proceeded

in it.

forbidden.

(Continued at foot of nest colums.)

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A German newspaper, but that little de tail the poster carefully omitted to state.

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