The Paris authorities have} sing views as_ to means of{ ing fuel. It has been suddenly announced that, within 24 hours, all public places devoted to dancing must close, and that all establishments where dancing took place as an incidental attraction were ta forbid it. Everybody at once concluded that the real object was to discourage dancing as at resent practised, becau—it obvious that in the ordin. tearoom where dancing gves on in whatever floor space is available, and stops if extra vables have yo be brought in. ae amount of electric light and heating expended- is exactly same whether the clients are seated at table or indulging in the rhythmic catalepsy known to a benighted generation as dancing. As for the night restaurants, neither their food nor their wine is so good, in relation to them Eiffel Tower prices, as to justify themselves without some further entertainment. But there is nothing to prevent the proprietors from organizing a café- chant ant programme in place of the forbidden dancing.
This attack upon dancing alone, among all the pleasures to which post-war Paris has delivered _her-has naturally made everybody that it is the dancing, and not the heating and lighting expended on it, which has annoyed the authorities. In fact, in the
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