A RECENT article in a Sunday magazine declares, and it gives evidence in support of its averment, that a regular school exists in Paris to teach American women how to smuggle goods into America. Jewels, diamonds, gems of various sorts, costly laces and silks, are concealed everywhere — under plumes in hats, in hollow hat pins, in hair puffs, in lining of collar, in hat lining, in arm-pit pockets, in hollow corset steels, in hip pad pockets, in fluffy cuff masks, in scarf linings, in hollow parasol handles, hung in the parasol, swathed around the body, hung around the legs, in hollow heels of shoes, in hollow false teeth, everywhere. It means perjury, for the customs present a list of dutiable articles, and demand sworn declarations. Sometimes American labels are taken abroad and placed upon the goods, and then it becomes difficult for the customs detective. Sometimes the merchant furnishes a "fake" invoice for the goods, and the tourist expects to obtain a great reduction in regular duties. The Government has spies everywhere in the large emporiums of Europe, but they miss millions for all of that. It is very seldom, however, that any of these wealthy criminals are prosecuted or punished when guilty save by fine.