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Press, Volume LIII, Issue 16053, 8 November 1917, Page 10

Parisians are not yet used to the | kilt. "I have just come back from 48 ! hours' duty in Paris," writes an officer i in a Highland regiment. "My servant I and I, loth in the kilt, were buying ! some stuff outside a shop, as one does in Paris, -.rhen a crowd of about 20 people gaihercd round and simply stared some amused, some open-mouthed, I and some (doubtless) in admiration. I was amused at first, but it got a bit too much of a pood thing, and my servant -who is a wag, said: 'Shall I hand round the hat, sir?' So, for a rag, and nnt- thinking be -would. I said, <Yes, I do ' and —— if didn't whip off his i balrror;:! and take it round perfectly seriously wit' l 0 childlike expression on his face- They cleared off all right, } somo grinning, and others looking very sheepish. But wcpot nothing!" The "Morgcnnost, or a recent date, : states that tbe'Berlin polico.intend to . prohibit smoking m the streets, the hibition to be general, and irrespective j of sex. The measure is proposed in j vicxv* of the rapid decline in tobacco | ; stocks, and is to extended to the j 1 whole of Germany. t