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SEEING THE NIGHT CLUBS

PARIS.

CROOKS AND CUISINE OF THE UNDERWORLD

Mr. H. J. Greenwall, the Daily Expran Car respondent in Paris, rites.

Three Englishmen tan actor, a business. man, and a journalist were talking about Paris The Srst and the last knew their prowar Paris and loved it. The actor was ying that the Gay City was 'gay no longer it had become an international playground. The journalist's wings had boen scorched many times when the moths futtered round the bright light that burnt so brightly in the days that are dead and gose. The business man was practically s new comer, and wanted to be shown. So the journalist agreed to take him on tour of investigation. Well---

We started out, the business man and I, to spend a real typical Parisian" evening. After dinner, we strolled along the bolt- levards towards the establishment that is the rage of: Faris. I can only bay of it what the Peckham milliner said of the new fashion hat she placed in the window: it is the last shout It is a gorgeous place, this new restaurant. Typically Par isian. It belongs to an English Company. Upstairs there is an excellent orchestra, The conductor is an Italian.

ENGLISH DANCING GIRLS,

Downstairs there is another band; a real good jazz, band, all Americans Feople dance, and wine, and dine. Do you want to know what the Parisians" are discussing? Listen *Wal, if this little dive don't beat any thing Chicago

A Erd pushes oat a placard bearing the word Attraction," and the band strikes up a popular tuna Miss Stalla Marvis, wearing costume reminiscent of May Yohe in." Little Christopher Columbus, walks through the audience singing a song in Baglish or American

I forget which Later is joined by eight girls from Manchester and Liverpool, who sing and dance

You have had enough of this! So have L We go to another Parisian establish went, the property of an English company, and there we hear English and Americaa

and

music and English American convers stion. The night is still young, but the Government decrees that everything must shut up at one. So we accept

the

hospita lity of an American friend who takes us to his "club.” I shook hande with stranger and became a member, Almost like London night lifet

Then we entered a place that used to be a theatre. Now it in theClub. There is an American jazz band, with a nigger trap drummer. The last time I saw him was in the Foreign Legion. America sent us ber best and

worst ;.

the beat seem to have gone home. Here around the American bar, one hears all languages, including German, but, mighty little French. There are men who are possible

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·Bowery and others Fights are frequent, but there is no oficial interference.

DEEGS OF DOMANITY.

It i now three-thirty. The famous Pere Tranquille! restaurant in the Central Markets opens at four. Downstairs there is the little rine bar where the markat porters are already drinking their coffee and petit Tell of the dregs of verre Upstairs there is an oblong room, humanity,

Well might Hell is

cry with Ferdinand in the Tempest empty, and all the devils are hera."

Women 'disappear into G.H.Q. Love, and come out dosed with cocaine.. You can count a dozen women who are doped. The only Franchman present is a drunken, much- beribboned sailor. An English crook" is breakfasting with a pseudo Irish-Hungarian the couple are accompanied by a nondescript Englishwoman whose evening gown shows a disposition to slip from her

shoulders, and whose pearls could never

claire an oyster as a mother. W

We have enough of this dope shop," and for home, elbowing a path through the bustling market people.

The actor was right.

WHERE WOMEN STRIKE.

DRASTIO LESSON IN MANNERS.

Lecturing on Native Customs of the Baila of Northern Rhodesia," at a meet- ing of the African Society, held at King's College, the Rev. Edwin W. Smith remark ed that, the striķa weapon was not cons fined to

The women go on he said. If any man in ariko the gland.

village dog and says something which the women take as a slight upon - thêm, then every woman in the kraal goes on strike. They throw down their tools, and, of course, the men are faced very quickly by starvation. The women have the food in their bands, and they will not give the men anything to eat. The man very soon succumb, and every one of them has to make apologies to the women for the bad behaviour of the one man haa offended. The women then reluctantly extend giveness, but, before doing so, they that they shall have not only apologies, but presents of beads and the

Mr. Smith described a curious and decidedly uncomfortable custom of the Ba-la. It appears that these people dways take out the front incisor teeth. This is done while they are quite young and it is done by means of a hammer and chisel. The head of the boy or girl is held between the knees of a grown up, and then someone else comes along with the chisel and hammers away until the teeth are removed. It is a point of bon. our," added the lecturer, that they may not utter a sound.during the operation.

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PROPORTIONAL TARIFFS FOR PARCEL POSTS.

Pin18, November 28th.. The Universal Postal Congress in session at Madrid has adopted, with slight modi- fications, the scheme submitted by the Com mission on Porcel Posts, for establishing alala od zeights with propozional tarifis which will greatly benefit trade.-

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AL FRESCO FETE

THE

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ON

SUNDAY, 12TH DECEMBER, 1920 FROM 8.30 TO 11.30.7.

Under the Distinguished Patronage" of

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In the afternoon from 2.50 to 60 r. savanal Stalls will be open, and amusements", apecially suitable for Children will be provided. Tea and Refreshments will be obtainable. Admission free. The Band of the Wiltshire Regiment will play during the afternoon.

The Grounds will be brilliantly illuminated in the Evening.

The Benda of the WTLASHIBE 'REGIMENT and the "SOCIEDADE PHILARMONICA" will play between 8.30 and 11.30 r.,

SOME FEATURES OF THE FETE: Grand Concert by well-known Hongkong Amateura, Tea Room, Refreshment Room, Chute, Fishing Pond, Lucky Wheel, Aunt Sally, Electric Shooting Gallery, Lucky Dip, Strafing the Bolshevik, Quoits, &o., &c. FARM YARD AND STORE:

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