OUR PARIS LETTER

Evening Post, Volume CX, Issue 102, 27 October 1925, Page 9

OUR PARIS LETTER

BLOOD TRANSFUSION

FOR THE THIRD TIME

(FROM OUR OWN COBEESFONDBNT.)

PARIS, 26th August. For tho third time a Paris physician, Dr. L. Georges Prevost, has given his blood to save the life of a patient. The first was a politician, the second a painter, and the third a woman who had severe hemorrhage during her confinement. Seeing that the case was critical, Dr. Prevost jumped into a cab and fetched another medical man. The transfusion of blood was carried out without delay, and the young: mother was saved.. Interviewed by the "Pelit Parisien," Dr. Prevost said with a smile: "It was all,part of the treatment. There was no time to lose, and ' it was unnecessary to bother, anybody." DU-PLESSYS MEMORIAL A movement- is on foot, to erect 3 monument to the French poet, Maurice dv Plpssys, and to provide assistance for. his widow and two children. Dv Plessys, who died in January, 1924, was in straitened circumstances nearly all his life, and an ironical fate willed it that his wife should be compelled to sell newspapers to keep the home: going while her husband was 'writing poems of great beauty. He was one of those exceptional writers who are never satisfied with their own work, and who strive constantly after an unattainable perfection. When he lay dying, a cheque for nearly 10,000 francs-arrived from Mauritius., and his last words to his wife were: "I am so glad, for you and the children." : ' ELYSEE GARuEN PARTY RULE On the invitation cards sent out by the President' of the Republic for the garden party given, in the "fine" "grounds of the Palace of the Elysee three words were engraved, "Uniform; .frock-coat, tail-coat,' intended for the guidance of men visitors, who might '.'be'■ tempted to don dresscoats" or. -jackets'. It caused some cruel indecision among some of _ the young men not entitled to appear in a uniform and possessing neither of the other garments mentioned. They appeared perforce in tailless morning dress eventually, and were conscious of incongruity among the women whose smart day toilettes* might easily be mistaken this year for full evening dress.. The dress, coat in England has come to be regarded as essentially and exclusively evening dress for day or evening wear, and conservative Frenchmen still go to their weddings in the dress coat and wear the same attire when they follow their wife or. a close relative to the cemetery. To -exclude it from the gardens of the .Elysee reception puts the dress coat back in France to the place it, occupies on the other side of the Channel. - DRESS MUSEUM PLAN Several of the municipal •councillors of Paris have been, won over to the project of, establishing in Paris a dress museum in which the outstanding models of men's and women's costume should be preserved for future, reference. The scheme, it is pointed out, would cost very little since suitable" buildings such as the .d'Ennery Museum in tho*Avenue, dv Bois, the mansion of the late Baroness Salomon de Rothschild in the Rue Berryer, or even the Grand Palais are available. Not many, trinkets, scarcely any jewellery, but all the accessories of dress, and some lace, but no materials except made up, would probably be stored in the proposed dress collection. Mannequins may not *be .used- for the display of the models, as'they take up much room, but this matter may be reconsidered, since the mannequins also reflect the taste and the styles of the passing seasons. CONSCIENCE MONEY Like tho English Exchequer, the French Treasury is often enriched by anonymous donors who send in "conscience money" after having successfully evaded the tax collector. The majority of the sums sent in are small amount-si but there are exceptions. One of. the windfalls^ in 1923 amounted, to two and a half million francs, and this "penitent thief" brought the year's total receipts from.this curious category-of citizens to 2,957,495 frc. 79 c. Centimes, it appears, often figure in conscienca money. The amount of anonymous returns received last year was 1,751,057 frc 52 c, but although debts of'the kind have been paid anonymously for , many years, the sums formerly were of small importance.-- From 1900 to 1914 they represented only a few thousand francs in the year, tho total for tha first thirteen years .of the century amounting to only 152,011 frc. 77 c. But now that the taxes represent billions, the returns from, remorseful shirkers, come in by hundreds of thousands. A STREET GALLANT One behind the other, ten great' mbtor-coches passed through winding Montmarte yesterday morning, carrying foreign tourists through the quarter. On the front seat of one of the coaches were two English'girls, who', with delighied eyes, watched the bustle and movement in the busy Rue Caulaincourt. Their car pulled up at a cross road, and a young main standing on the pavement looked up into the two charming young faces. The sight seoms to have pleased the Parisian, who glanced round for something he could offer in homage to youth and beauty, and, as it happened, a woman began at that moment to arrange some flowors near by. Turning quickly, the young man took a rose and threw it lightly to tho girls, and he received a smiling acknowledgment of his gallantry as the car |-started off again. HAIRDRISSING BOOM Well content are the hairdressers with the prevailing fashion of short hair. For all its apparent simplicity, the style has made women regular and frequent visitors to the coiffeur, and the consequence is easily seen, for on all 6ides, the hairdressing establishments are being enlarged, doubled, or trebled. A modest establishment in an outlying quarter is thus being enlaged. "I shall have fifteen cubicles," said the owner, "where fifteen clients can bo waited on at a. time." He and tho many other hairdressers in the neighbourhood are liesieged on Mondays and Saturdays, and busy on every other day. Only the 'makers of wigs are dissatisfied. When much hair was tho rule, vast quantities wero imported from China and Japan, to bo worked^ up into chignons by the "posticheurs.". Now, when wigs are worn at all, they are of lustrous silk in thick strands, white, or silver or gold for .choice, and vor amusing and pretty in. effect imdor the lire of electric light.