OUR PARIS LETTER

Evening Post, Volume CXIII, Issue 3, 5 January 1932, Page 14

OUR PARIS LETTER

A TEHPOKAKY "PAPA"

ROYAL RENDEZVOUS

(From "The Post's" Ftepresentative.) . : PARIS, 11th November. Nothing moves Parisians so easily as the sight of a child in distress, and a small boy of about two years weeping bitterly outside a big store yesterday ■attracted a policeman and a crowd of sympathisers. He was lost, but he was too young to give any description of his "Manian" or "Papa," for whom ho wailed incessantly^ Then suddenly, taking one fat "fist out of his eye, he reached towards a young man in the crowd and' Said ''Papa." But when willing hands put him in the young man's arms, the latter with a scared face denied'all knowledge of the child. This was unbelievable callousness, as the crowd; said. They also added spmo other remarks, in which words like "Scoundrel" and "Inhuman brute" were freely used. Things really looked rather bad for the young man, and the policeman began to be suspicious,.. when a man and a woman unceremoniously shouldered their way through the crowd. The woman tore the child from, the arms of the bewildered youth, and the man scowled darkly on him; while both exclaimed in furious tones, ''Kidnapper." \yHEN AT SEA. ■ . A. professor at the Congress of. Col 4 onial Tourism, now being held ia Paris,' has-given-it ;as his opinion that seasickness can be; prevented. In a paper which he read beforo the congress he states that he has experimented with dogs, and finds.that the/illness is more serious after a.good meal has been eaten. .He . therefore counsels light meals at regular- intervals, and 'to minimise : the effect of- the boat's movement, suggests that the "patient" should wear:a fairly tight belt, drink soda water,'and lie at full length until he "ias become; accustomed to the .motion. Auto-suggestion, he says, plays a, part in the'illness. The professor has also, found thirty drops of belladonna a day for three days—that is until the "patient" has become accus-to.ined-to the' "vessel's" movement — is very efficacious. This drug, he considers, is sufficiently harmless to have no after-effects on. a normal person. "PL AT3NUM; BLONDES." One' of the, amusements of women visitors' at the Hairdressers' Exhibition.' at the Porte '-de. Versailles, Paris, is to. watch, girls being turned, as though by .magic,^ into "platinum blondes.'" Arid there seems to be no lack of pretty /girls ■; to. submit their heads as. a kind .of "sacrificial offering", to fashion. Perched on a high chair above ;the audience, the girl allows her hair.to be plastered lavishly with, a thick paste to a running: comment by the hairdresser, who- explains the: method.. The pasto is allowed to stay on a certain time, and then the hair is. washed, and the girl, who may have been black or brown haired, appears before her fascinated audience with locks whichare a pale gold, mixed with silver. .■■'.!■;. . - ~. ■• Another' thing that seems to attract women's attention are the girls Who are having their hair permanently waved by different methods. To prove that, the process, whatever it is, is absolutely painless; every girl. tries to smile brightly. ' NOT TO DISAPPEAR. . The Cafe de Paris, after all, is not going to disappear. It is true that the estabßshment in the Avenue de l'Opera is to close its doors, but the celebrated restaurant.is to reopen again later in-a building near the West EM,: where: the fashionable life p| Paris ia slowly gravitfting.'.;. -^i- '^K^'V^:'"; ■;;■.■'■;■ ■ - ■-. •Thi^ wi}l;be its third move since it v?as first.opened. In 1830", it was situated'pii the corner ofithd Eue^Taitbbut, Opposite th^' almpst equally famous Tottoni, '^.nd in its restaurant^ lighted then; by candles and oil-lamps, a .fashionable clientele flocked to taste the dishes invented, by- the. ex-chef of the Duchesse de Berry. ■..;'. :.: ;: ', . - •Years',after, the Cafe de Paris.was forced to move, and some time elapsed^ before' it was opened again. In the 'seventies, Paris hacl1 a Cafe de Paris again in the A.venue' de:l'Opera. However, it had lost many of its clientelej and some time:werit by beforo it again gained,'the same, vogue. But then it attracted the smart world as never befpre. . Practically every celebrity, in theworld was to be seen there, at one time or another. Eeigning Eoyalties and Boyal Highnesses dined there incognito, and there was riot bnej1 but several salons dcs princes. )\¥ NEW rACES rpR OLD. vDiiring the war, facial surgery, made treinendbus'strides, arid since,then it hias<become a science. The public are still apt to think of it as a surgery of which only a" fading beauty takes advantage to repair: the ravages of time, but the second congress of plastic and aesthetic surgery, which is being held in Paris, is proving; daily its ; . service to humanity thcDugh the wor,ks;of the doctors, who have come from all over the Continent, as. well as: from America and Canada.-'^lt needed the hoirors of the war to stress its usefulness, and then both sculptors and'surgeons worked to give back to broken men some measure.of normality.- .i. ■./■•■ J ; ;There is one well-known American sculptor who spent much of his time during -those years in moulding casts for. men wounded in: the face. Now the new,: surgery is used to remould features or limbs 'tfhich ars naturally imperfect or distorted.through an accident; _or even to- give beauty where ordinarily there; iarnone.: It: is impossible to know how many unfortunate people have, been .saved:, from neuras-. thenia or despair by.the aid of these <xpertß.-' ',!■:'■ ■■■ ' .■.'.- , - : ' '