Personal Photographs in Night Resorts a Present Craze row Ovn OWN Contesroxpent Paris, Aug. 24.
The photographic souvenir is be-yining more and more in vogue in Paris among visitors certain class. Customers at smart restaurants are invited to have their "pictures" taken, and prints are presented to them before they have f Finished dinner. If you Montmartre for a "night out" and take a table at one of the cabarets, an enterprising flashlight photo-rapher is sure to present himself, &nd_ you can go back to New York for New Zealand and show how you Tooked while. plunged in' the night life of the Gay City. These photographic attentions are by no means confined to the supposedly prosper ous patrons of restaurants and berets. They are. also bestowed Deople of foreign appearance who merely walk about the streets and Took as if they would be "tickled to death" at the idea of supplying the home town with postcards showing themselves on a background which some well-known night resort shows"up prominently.
Thus is the Grand Tour of four forefathers democratized and modernized with a vengeance! "At first, the. explosions of magnesium Tights, used to rouse real Montmartrois from their slampers, under the impression that a street drama wat in progress and that somebody hud ten shot, but soon they recognized that the sound was merely another audition to the ordinary. noises of Paris, and they returned to bed. To any who may wonder why the police allow promiscuous flashing on. the public highway, the answer is that' the photographs may prove quite useful in keeping track of the doings of certain people.
The Murderer's Terror Dr. Paul, the eminent French expert in forensic medicine, who has Just been promoted to the dignity. of Commander of the Legion -of Honour, is the Sir Bernard Spilabury of Prance. Ho has helped to convict hundreds of murderers and has! carried out nearly 10,000 pout-fern examinations in the course of career. He is unequalled it the art of dissecting a departed brother and finding out why. the machinery ceased to work. It is an occupation which, to the lay mind, seems somewhat ghastly, but it nev. has been known to depress Dr. Paul. He ix a stout man, with a long moustache and a jovial' manner, jand, when he gives his evidence it court, he has a knack of putting' human interest into medi He is very popular with the news paper reporters, whose curiosity he: is always willing to gratify.
In spite of his chronic cheerful Dr. Paul admits that he is superstitious. He says that, when he was only fourteen, a fortuneteller predicted that he would 'e-come celebrated through blood, that he would marry and have one who would die at the age of 18, and that he himself would lose his life through something connected with his profession, This prediction hus been fulfilled up to the presen The last part of it heartened Paul greatly during the war, when he was frequently under fire. He] was convinced that it could* not hurt him, and, as a matter of fact, he came through without a scratch but he does not feel so confident:. Jabout escaping septic poisoning, although he takes all possible: precautions. Forewarned is fore-farmed, but is not necessarily—invulnerable.
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