OUR PARIS LETTER

Evening Post, Volume CVII, Issue 22, 26 January 1924, Page 13

OUR PARIS LETTER

THE BRITISH BREAKFASTS

BANNED BY FRENCH MEDICOES

CrSOM OCI OWN 001SMKMD1ST.)

PAEIS, 28th November;

The French Academy of Medicing yesterday decided against a breakfast of bacon and eggs and the British- working day, the question of which/ had been referred to it by the.Mimster' q.£ Hygiene .and. the "Minister" of Labour. The Academy of Medicine apparently; reported against the-attractive -Britisb; programme >, for starting tho-day- latee; and ending earlier on the grounds, thafc it would be achieved only by sacrifice"bf lunch. The Academy of Medicine-is e>vi« dently under the belief" that'the Britipk lunch isa hurried and rapid affair, none, of its members" apparently: e'vei; having besn summoned in consultation by British colleagues-attending City men. The French- lunch -is certainly ' a dignified thing in .all classes: of-"society, consumed at leisure and eaten with taiction, and entirely free . from boiled potatoes. The banks give two hours-for lunch to their clerks and kindred 'institutions and Government 'offices, about the same time. , :- ----■-:■-..-

SCHOOL THAT MAKES GOODr

HOUSEWIVES.

t There are 400 pupils -this • term- it i;h# housewifery school opened "three years ago by the City of Paris in the Eve DebeUeyme, and in the great kitchens, where little girls from nine to elevea years of age are learning to cook, menus lor ten persons are how being prepared at an outlay of less than 20 frauds ~Eor • two francs a head the chidren prepare a. meal that includes soup, roast meat, vegetables, cheese and either"* sweet or fruit. The lesson is given' on Saturday, mornings, and the children go to market themselves to buy the different food- •» stuffs required for the day's menu^un- : der the supervision, of course, of a. teacher. It is a thoroughly French trait "«•■ in the teaching that the small co6ks; ara taught to prepare two kinds.of .meal.a weekday and a Sunday menu, the-latter being more dainty and also more copious, as benefits the family fefc. Whea these 400 girls have finished their house- • wifery studies, they have at .their fingers ends a calling that will be as good' ■ as a drowy,. for the tendency is for" good male cooks to become more and mbra '■ scarce, according: to one of v the cordons bleus of Paris, and capable women "wiU' be welcome in the kitchens. !" * ■' '■ :

NO HONOUR AMONG THIEVES; ..Messrs. Betchakeff and Varanefi■'■ ar« two exiles in Paris who met .each other only two days ago, but found on. ac. quamtance that they had a pickpocketing system in common. . Theyv never touched ordinary passers-by; or people in omnibuses or any other of the'1 common "victims of the pickpocket fraternlty. They watched for persons under sudden emotional stress and when they found them they struck. Thus, in the] Boulevard Richard Leneir, whera there is^ a fair, a lion-samer cot into difficulties with , a lion and all the spectators were sud- < denly .projected into emotional stress '■ Under cover of this, Betehakeff and Varaneff gathered a nmnber of watches and purses. Not satisfied with these, tney strolled to where in open »ir lottery was taking plaoe/For sons time, the emotionai state of successive win! ners yielded them further trophies. Then two passing detectives saw them, at work and arrested them. For this fate, M. Betehakefi wu prepared per. haps, but not for what the searchTof himself and his friend at the police [station disclosed. His own pawrwas gone, for, while he was robbing others. Comrade Varaneff, recognising that this was an emotional condition, also had robbed Betchakeff himadf of his private fortune of marks, roubles, and 215 French franca.

SOOT FOE RHEUMATISM

Mme. Josephine Lanelet, who lives i* Oie Avenue de Saxe, is a rarse, who does not exercise her profesaon^Sb stereotyped lines. If we may believe thai evident* given before a magistrate Am told patients that doctors n»-all=verß well in their way, but that she could provide much more effective remedies. For rheumatism she prescribed an ointment* which, it is said, turned out to be mads 01-soot; and she maintained that there! was nothing like a pigeon's entrails foe soothing pains. As for baldness sna treated it with holy water and animal magnetism. Some of her patients appeared to have thought themselves better for these remedies, but one, a woman to whom the nurse had paid -60! visits, lost faith and refused" to-pay'! When the nurse began, proceedings to recover, her fees, 10 francs,, alrisit, th* patient retaliated by informing *tbV police, and the result is thatiMme; tanglet has been committed for trial on a charge of illegally practising medicine.

WHY THEY BEGGED,

The sight of a shabby and delicate looking woman standing at the corner of the-Kue Vavin and the Rue Notre-IJame-des-Champs drew glances of pity; from the eyes of passers-by and alma from their pockets. When she had;reaped a good harvest she left lief stand and went into a chemist's shop. A polic* official who had been observing-her followed her into the shop and found that she was spending her takings in ether. He took her into ■ custody where her identity was established as Clau'dW Feraud, aged 47, with several. convictions to her discredit. While formalitieswere being accomplished at'the polica station another woman, young and pretty, was brought in, and. a look"- of recognition passed bet-ween the women They were /mother and. daughter, both engaged in the same traffic to satisfytheir craving for the drug-that had beei' their downfall.