Here is a typical story of Deauville, that curious place where Satan puts in overtime in finding' work for idle hands to-do. A wealthy Parisienne, who at 52 sti great passion, went to Deauville' without her husband, who is considerably older than herself, and put up at a fashionable hotel. the sands one morning, a friend introduced her to a handsome young man, in bathing costume. The lady having mentioned casually that she regretted never having learnt. to swim, he immediately offered sive her a lesson. She accepted, and the swimming lesson, which forwards turned out to be pheno-monally expensive, was followed by several other meetings, and shi became so: infatuated that, when the young man suggested that she should marty him, after divorcing her husband, she agreed. The fascinating swimmer having mentioned that he was - temporarily hard up, owing to the non-arrival of expected remittances from Rome, she gave him nearly £2,000 to keep him going.
She then went off to Paris to sive her husband the shock of his life. Fottunately for him, he was a man of experience, and also a philosopher. When she announced her desire to divorce, he mildly remarked that it was a risky thing to do at her age. By dint of jude 8 questioning, he obtained a pretty clear idea of what had been going on at Deauville, and, after tome trouble, he made his' wit realise that she had fallen into the clutches of an adventurer. They tried to recover the money, or some of it, and were told by the young man's lawyer that it was a. loan, recoverable only by civil action. Their only resource is the Public Prosecutor, who can order criminal proceedings to be taken if he finds sufficient evidence of false pretences or fraud.
The New Noise The long spell of extraordinarily} hot weather (which produced days and nights almost worthy of Shanghai in August) has revealed to the citizens of Paris the widespread popularity of wireless and also its drawbacks. Every window being open in consequence of the heat, everybody got the benefit of every wireless set, and, in houses containing thirty or forty flats, arnest of them equipped with a set, the result was sometimes very trying, especially when the gram-phones joined in. A light sleeper complained that he was roused every morning by "Ramona" conjunction with a" sonorous voice driving. much information, mostly an. uninteresting character, about the conference at The Hague, the fighting in Afghanistan, and' M. Herriot's impressions of—Greece. Then came other voices giving! instructions for Swedish exercises, and still. otters holding: forth on the position of agriculture.
Towaids mid-day, the air was filled with information about the wholesale prices at the Central Markets, the: latest political news, forgo and jazz tunes, and bits of "Rose Marie," "Lohengrin," "La Mascotte," and "Madame Butterfly," interspersed" with publicity announeemtents about tooth-pastes and new novels. He-lunched" to the strains of several national'anthems,
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