If the loan were an undoubted success, the Government would be greatly' strengthened in dooli with the flanancial reform proposals to be discussed in October and would be in a better position to oppose schemes for taxing capital. If the loan is only moderately successful, the Government will be less able to resist those whose policy consists simply of taking the money wherever they find.it. Some eriti doubt whether M. Painle in staking the credit of the country on an operation which, after all, is an internal arrangement to provide against certain consequences of the borrowings made in the emergencies of war. They wonder whether it is really" necessary to make the country appear as if its fortunes were bound up with the result of one of M. Caillaux's plans. As to the success of the loan, reports are conflicting. Officially, of course, all is well, but privately it is said that while the response has been satisfactory in Paris and other large towns, the country people are hold ing back. They like the National Defence bonds (which M. Caillaux wants to reduce) because the money is tied up for only short periods, ranging from three months to year, the interest is paid advance, and the process is anonymous. They hand in their bank notes at a post-office, present the bond when it falls due, and either renew it or take the money, and no one is any the wiser; but tying up one's money in a Government stock, which can only be sold through a bank or official stockbroker and has value subject.to the fluctuations of supply and demand, not to mention polities, is quite another matter from the "French peasant _proprietor's point of view. It is to be feared that he will look upon the Cailtlaux loan (which many of its paid propagandists incorrectly des-ibe as a gold loan) with the same suspicion he showed towards paper money. The French peasant is ready to come to the rescue in a great national emergency, as he proved in 1871 and the early part of the great war, but he isnot thrilled by talk about consolidation, cancellation of floating debt and other financial terms.
The Unrivalied Deauville Deauville, that celebrated resort on the Normany coast, is now at the height of its glory, which bests barely one month out of the twelve. Its reputation as something unique continues to attract rich men from all parts of the workd, and, of course, their womenkind, legitimate or the reverse. The display of jewellery and toilettes at the Casino in the evening is phenomenal, One American woman the other evening wore an enormous diamond solitaire ring and a pearl necklace with two very large diamonds. She bad a diamond dindem and a dress of silver tissue. She attracted great deal of attention, which was no doubt what she wanted, and roman from all parts of the building rushed to see her and appraise the details of her toilette, Luxury reached the pitch 'a reaction becomes more and more probable. A good many wealthy patrons would prefer place that is not quite so near Eng-Innd and where their doings would not attract the limelight of public notice to such an embarrassing extent. One of these days we shall ace the decline of Deauville, Every fashionable resort comes to the end of its reign sooner or later. MIN. Cornuché, the organizer who "made" Deauville, is rather tined of it and has cast his eyes on La Boule, a little place on the west coast, much too far from London and Paris to be of any use to the mere week-end visitor. La Boule has a spick-and-span new casino and many distinguished "nam ts of visitors. One of these he world will awake to the discovery that the entre of frivolity has been displaced.
The Hunt for Zizi Paris hag an inexhaustible:
pacify for producing unexpected incidents either of the tragic or comic variety, One of the latter just been supplied by a female
@'Acelimatation (the Bois de Boulobrought Jardin, n leopard. This creature
gue "Zoo") Inst week. Somebody forgot to provide a proper cage for her, and Zi the keepers called her, was put into a temporary wooden shed. She waited for night, tore away the top of the door with her claws, jumped through a cor. rider at large in their favourite park naturally created a great sensation among Parisians. Those who had taken a stroll in the Bois on the morning after Zizi's escape felt a thrill down the spine thought of the peril they had uncos sciously faced. Public opinion of course clamoured for energetic ind a night battue wag imorganized, it being understood that leopards always hide during the day and only venture out of their lairs under cover of the darkness, The battue was picturesque and amusing though ineffective. The park rangers were reinforced by policemen with their trained dogs, the Jardin @Acelimatation mobilized one of its elephants, and behind came a body" of—amateur sportsmen, properly dressed for the occasion and provided with guns and dogs. This motley crowd wandered over the Bois for a couple of hours, the sportsmen occasionally letting fly with theft guns when they heard any suspicious rustling among the trees. It was fortunate that the expedition came to an end without anyone being shot, Great hopes were based on the dogs, but they unhappily did not know what was expected of them, and they showed a complete lack of interest in the matter. Another chase on the following night proved equally futile. Zizi was at liberty for three and night she got into garden adjoining of into' a Bois and was pursued and
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