ECHOES

Small profits!
All of Paris knows that Mistinguett needs two pairs of silk stockings a day. But, having been worn for such a short time, these stockings are naturally not all in poor condition. Good friends of the star also assure us that she has found a way to make the most of them. She has reportedly made an agreement with a woman selling clothes who would buy them back. These good friends also say that the same is true for her dresses.

Fifty years of service... and what a reward!
Readers of Funi have also read a letter from a newsagent on Rue de Belleville. It goes without saying that this woman is not the only one whom Messageries Hachette et Cie have taken issue with. The oldest newsagent in Paris, Madame Marguerite Dupuy, has not escaped the scandal. She was both the owner and manager of the newsstand on the corner of Rue de Richelieu and Boulevard Montmartre. She has just retired. This brave seventy-eight-year-old woman ran her newsstand for fifty-two years.
Before her, her mother had already sold newspapers in the same shack, which the City of Paris had granted her because she was the mother of eighteen children and her husband was a soldier of Napoleon and a glorious wounded soldier in the Italian Wars.
No doubt the City of Paris and the Hachette Company never thought to award Madame Dupuy the Good Servants Medal. However, a few months ago, the old woman, who had never incurred any penalties, had the dismay of being suspended for eight days for having lent and taken back, in violation of the rules, two Petit Parisien coffees from her neighbor, the owner of the Café Biard.
Despite the sympathetic intervention of several customers, Mr. Paul Dupuy, the head honcho, ordered the humble kiosk to be closed for eight days.