It is now the tim for the final invaseon of the west by the eastren american league teams and before this clash is over it will be definitively known wether the two sox teams are to fight it out in a nip and tuk finish or wether the Chicago sox will have a comfortable margen to insure a world series betwean the two largest American citys Chicago and New York.

The French news deals exclusively with the developments in the world series Over There, which is, perhaps, almost as important.

A new acquaintance made today was that of the Gentleman from Louisiana. He introduced himself to scold me and another guy for not taking sufficient exercise. We told him we found little pleasure in promenading the deck.

“That’s unnecessary,” he said. “Get yourselves a pair of three-pound dumbbells and use them a certain length of time every day.”

So we are constantly on the lookout for a dumbbell shop, but there seems to be a regrettable lack of such establishments in mid-ocean.