Paris seems ever to have x historical problem on hand. At the moment the historians and the archmologists are concerned with the last resting-place of Mirabeau, the Revolutionary accused of being " Moderate, whose sudden death, Danton" xpelled his remains from the chably, only saved hivn from the scaffold, Pantheon, Where do they now lie? 'A vast amount of ink is being expen ed on the problem. It seems likely that they were placed in a cemetery attach-to an anatomical theatre near the Jardin des Plantes. Alexander Dumas used to, point out a green mound under which he ssid his father had told him the great Tribune" was buried. If the story la true, then there is little hope of identifying the Lamb because the spot is now completely c.vered with houses. It must enter the category of the undiscoverable, of the historical mysteries, such us the identity of the Man-with-the-Iron-Mask and the resting-place of the body of the Seventeenth Luis, Automobiles and Dress, was talking the other diy to one of the i the mode" in the Rue de la Paix.
affected the ' dress-mess' of Paris, Nuw-Said "The automobile has greatly adays alody spends her time in careering over the country in an automobile. In the evening, she is in no mood to make a grand toilette.' She is more likely to replace the bolero with a blouse and put on the plainest of skirts, where formerly he would most assuredly have appeared décolletée." It is to be remarked that the Parisieune but rarely wears full evening dress, nowadays, except at the Opera. The result is that the Paris theatres have lost much of their brilliance of effect. There is another point to be considered: that spend-
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