While the woman tram-conducfor still holds her own in Paris, the woman chauffeur is not very much in evidence, says "The Manchester Guardian." It is, indeed rather astonishing nowadays how comparatively few French-women drive even their own motors. When the woman chauf-four does appear, however, she is very good indeed. Dressed neatly in a sort of uniform coat, with a peaked cap pulled down well over her face, only little loops of hair at the side give the lie to " masculine precision. The car is usually beautifully kept, and suggests that it is hung out every morning, French fashion, with the mats. Women chauffeurs seem to have a preference for grey cars, at this time of year neatly covered with natural-coloured linen. Quite apart, however, from the attraction of the car, the woman chauf-four has cther advantages. She is unexpectedly careful. As a rule, taking a Paris taxi means taking your life in your hands. [If it were not that many of the taxis are very small and light and the brakes very big and strong, there would be even more casualties than are at present suffered by the patient Parisian public. Their attitude, indeed, towards any driver who does eventually bring them safely to their destination is one of supreme gratitude. Paris taxis are cheap, but it is as well to have insured your life before using them. The woman chauffeur seems to have taken a resolution to protest against reckless driving. She is unusually steady and she does not try to make _plaits with the traffic in order to indulge an instinct for speed at nil costs. She is also very polite. The taximan has improved somewhat since the war, when it was necessary to go on one's knees to him, but he still keeps the tradition" of a demand that is greater than a supply, and while he takes a passenger without protest or. stipulations concerning' the ''pourboire,"' he is not particularly enthusiastic about his job. The woman chauf-four, on the other hand, is positively welcoming. She gets down to open the door and makes no fuss about Inggage. Her only fault at present is that there are too few of her, but if she keeps up her present standard, that is a fault which it would be very advantageous to her to remedy.
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