Fuos Our Own Paris, Sept 21, The Parisians who tured ext in thousands to sce the march of the American Legion were treated to a great surprise. Knowing that the Tegionavies were to go to the Are de Triomphe and lay, flowers on the Unknown Soldier's tomb, they not naturally concluded that they vould see a more or less formal hrilitary procession, with general aspect. of solemnity. Instead of this, they were provided with spectacle which looked as if it had been designed as an_object-lesson in the great variety of races that inlake up the Union, and the uncon querable youthfulness of the Amer-can spirit. As the procession was jon the lines of those held every year in America on the occasion of the Legion's convention, out must acquit the organisers of deliberately trying to astonish the French, but this was undoubtedly one of the effects produced, Until they saw this display, very tow Parisians can have realised the prevalence of the esprit. cocardier fondness for military display, existing in the United States, They were in the habit of regading Americans as a huge concatenation 7 industrial and agricultural workrs, almost entirely oecupted in making money and eating nothing for uniforms and decorations, The Legion march showed them 'a bewildering variety of military. and civilian costumes, striking accoutrements, and a profusion of medals, few of which had any relation to service in the field Ench Press representative had a medal with a usp, a Jubel and a red and blue ribbon 14 inches long. They saw a contingent of men looking remark ably like French Zouaves; Red Indian chiefs in tenthers, and their quaws, from Oklahoma; a California brass band in uniforms of a distinctly Spanish type, reminding one of the origins of this State; cow. boys in strange boots and sombreros rather like those worn by the Paris market porters; a few negroes, and davies are scattered all over the world, the members who had come from various countries were sen* out in separate detachments, and it happened that the 400,000,000 of China were represented by one man, who marched all by himself in solitary grandeur. The spectators may have been too surprised to cheer in any case, they did not show thing Like the expected amount of
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