Meanwhile Paris is quiet and, in some respects, a pleasanter place than usual in which to live. Provisions are plentiful and prices normal. There are no rolls for breakfast, all the bread-making having been simplified to save labour, and the meat is not of good quality, but otherwise one lives very much as usual. Trade and confidence reviving. About thirty of the leading hotels remain open, and some of the smart restaurante, such as Voisin's, are actually doing much better than usual at this time of the year. The motor omnibuses, which add so largely to the noisiness of the streets en ordinary times, have been transformed into travelling meat stores for the troops and are rolling merrily over the roads near the fronti¢ There are still taxicabs, and plenty of horsecabs, drawn by bony animals and driven by ancient auto-medans not required at the front.
all goes well, we shall soon see the cafes and restaurants kept open until eleven o'clock, and there is even talk of reopening some of the theatres.
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