You cannot send them to the store-house or wrap them in linen.

And the spirit of the people of Paris you cannot crush nor stampede.
Between Paris in peace and Paris to-day the most striking difference is lack of population.

Idle rich, the employees of the government, and tourists of all countries are missing.

They leave a great emptiness.
When you walk the streets you feel either that you are up very early, before any one is awake, or that you are in a boom town from which the boom has departed.
On almost every one of the noted shops "Ferme" is written, or it has been turned over to the use of the Red Cross.

Of the smaller shops those that remain open are chiefly bakeshops and chemists, but no man need go naked or hungry; in every block he will find at least one place where he can be clothed and fed.