June 3.
Paris at present appears to be city mainly occupied by motor-cars, with pedestrians filling any unwanted spaces. No Paris season has been accompanied by such a formidable invasion of motor vehicles. All day and until late at night the cars, many of them the last word in elegance and luxurious fittings, move in serried ranks along' the main boulevards and avenues, broken only at intervals by the halts. at crossings.
'The waves of motor traffic extend well beyond the city,' so that hasbeen found necessary, to make a great increase in the number of police on traffic duty.
This density of locomotion has developed. flexibil ity in the pedestrian. Women and girls slip through the waiting lines of cars with an ease which they certainly did not show two or three years The authorities, who have been decidedly successful in edueat~ ing motor drivers, now are trying to do the same for the pedestrian. From time to time, they hold i journée clu pitter They establish barrages across the boulevards near the Opera, and. tactfully remonstrate with impatient, people who try to rush across at the wrong time. 'These educational efforts are given plenty of publicity, in the newspapers and films, and no doubt Paris will end by having its' street traffic very much better conducted than would have been lit possible by anyer driver a few years ago.
The number of women mot ists has increased enormously.
When motoring began to be general, a few women ventured tod the Bois de Boulogne, but, after a while, motoring, for some Merious reason, went out of fashion, Now the most natural thing in the world for a. woman to 0 out for a run in ber car.
Among wealthy people, the horse (for riding, but not for driving) again is vogue, and the really chia thing for woman is to have a private stable with two boxes, one for her saddle-horse, and the other for her car, The regulation has not entirely disappeared, looked upon as decidedly jen!
Practically all the younger women wear breeches fitting close round the knee, brown leather boots and light-coloured jackets matching. the felt hat.
In spite of the boots and breeches, the general effect by no means is too masculine,
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