The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-11-10
SCHOOLS IN PARIS.
More Things Are Learned There Than the
Prospectuses Promise.
Lucy Hooper's Letter.

Lucy Hoopers Letter.
But cannot warn my country-people in
too impressive manner respecting the care to
be taken in selecting school in Paris for
their daughters. 1t will not do to trust too
far to prospectuses and to French recon-
mendations, especially when the prices are
of tempting lowness. There are thorns
which lurk beneath the snowy blossoms of
all this watchfulness and extra strictness of
department The candoT aud innocence of
the average American or English girl are by
no means the rule with her jealousy watched
foreign associates. There are things talked
about in some of these model establishments
that are never dreamed of at home in SUCH
circles-subjects which | cannot explain or
even hint at. | suppose 1 shall be blamed by
some of my readers for even abiding to such
matters. but think it high time that Ameri-
can mothers should learn something of the
perls to which they expose their innocent
children when they place them without due
and minute Inquiry, in a French school,
Another drawback TO a residence at such an
establishment is often the type of girl with
whom our young maidens are compelled to
associate | know of one school Of high re-
pute at which one of tire scholars was the il
legitimate daughter of a Partisan actress.
The younger sister of the famous and infa-
nous English demi-monde known by the
name of "Skittles" was at one time fellow
pupil with the daughter of friend OF my
own at one of the most fashionable schools of
Paris This young damsel used to invite her
favorites amongst her school-fellows to go out
driving with her during the holidays in her
sisters carriage an invitation which some OF
them accepted. 1t was the horror of n
French gentleman on beholding the daugh-
ter of a Russian princess of his acquaintance
taking an airing in the Bots in the snowy
| and 1ell-known carriage of Madare 'Sklt-
| tles' that led to the discovery of who this
petted and fortunate pupil really was.
know of another instance, where the sister
of French actress was a fellow-pupil and
| favorte friend of party of American girls.
| She has since become a prominent Partisan
cocotte, and mods inpudently to her former
| school-fellows from her eight-spring landau
| she drives in the Bots.
| Recently, too, case came to my ears more
| fragrant than anything L have yet related,
| but the circumstances are, / think, wholly
| exceptional l never heard of such an in
stance before, and I am inclined to think
that it is unparalleled in the annals of the
| French schools for girls.
There is another point on which have not
vet touched, and, though of minor import
ance. it is not the less a serious one. 1t is
| the question of food. The economy which
| forms so prominent feature in the French
| character is carried to an extreme in French
neutrality-suspicious. and boardi ug-houses. dc
| not believe in pampering growing girls with
delicacies, but they ought to have an abund
ance of plain, wholesome, well-cooked. noDr
out of a hundred, they do not get. Weak
BROTH about two removes stronger than no
water meat from which every particle o.
nourishment has been extracted by boiling
coarse veal watery carrots, and grey, soui
bread, form the chief articles of diet, even a
the more pretentious of these establish
| ments,