The Helena independent. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1875-1943, 1890-06-22
American Art Students in Paris,

American Art Students in Paris.
Apropos of the recent ebullition over the
introduction of nude models before mixed
class, people just returned from abroad are
telling tales that Guido lola. These revela-
tions, they maintain, are mere Sunday
school stories compared with what might be
uncovered if the undraped truth were not
too disgusting. A woman who attended the
convention of painters in Edinburgh last
autumn relates that a famous artist seri-
ously maintained that it would be we'll if
women students could not find instruction
in Paris, because the atelier life democrat
lied their characters: whereupon Miss Bur
ton, the only woman artist in the Scotch
city, inquired if the atmosphere said to
poison the women was especially stimula-
ting to the moral fibre of the men. Ameri-
can women students were attacked with
especial virulence, which led the Amer
lean auditor to look into the matter
with some closeness when she crossed
the channel. She was fortunate in hav-
she now declares that she found it enough
to destroy ones love of art altogether 70
know what foulness one must face in order
to get instruction. If her informants are
credible, some of the Paris ateliers witness
orgies that are worse than those of house
of prostitution. The condition of things
abroad has no especial bearing on the ques-
in Paris, although models of opposite sexes
pose at the same time on the same platform;
but what especially disturbed my inform
ant was the confirmation she believed she
obtained of the rumors derogatory to the
women students. the tone of their Glass
rooms being reported in general quite the
reverse of elevating. Half dozen Ameri-
can women students known to be of respect
able families we're found living amid such
associations, taking their meals at a restau-
rant frequented by such notorious charac-
ters, and walking in and out in such close
proximity to SO much pitch that deilement
seemed inevitable. Things had gone SO far
probably, had Collected to their loud
voices"
So many American girls have made hon
orable records in Paris that the black sheep,
if there are any. must stand out very con-
spicuously in flock of white ones.
A Child of FL.
The young girl who is 'kept back'' be-
cause her older sisters are yet lingering in
the sluggish matrimonial market is a
familiar figure in the story books, especial
~ in those Of English origin, but it was
never my fortune to see pronounced spec
linen of the type until quite recently. I
must say the job had been done with neat
thoroughness. was prepared for the meet
ing by an irrefutable authority, who in
formed me- that the girl was of the right
age, though the wrong sex. to vote. I
wouldn't have believed it possible. She
WAS Just home from school. Her hair hung
down her back in glossy waves, her figure
was undeveloped and girlish in the extreme.
Her dress ended not far above her knees,
showing several inches of scantily filled
stockings above the tops of her shoes. She
was chewing candy as she bounced in. I
waited with awe and apprehension for the
phenomenon to speak.
Mamma" said she in q high-keyed
voice. f1inging down her schoolbag, ''Nellie
and Name are going to the park; can / 20
with them?"
Eyes, my DEAR" said mamma, ever indul-
gent to her youngest, and out dashed the
phenomenon with the hop. skip and jump of
13-year-old girl. ''That child is 90 impet-
uous,' murmured the motherI Ianpuidlv.
"quite hoyden." As playing in the park
is much better fun than playing on the pi-
ano, the child of q is probably having a
pretty healthy and happy time Of it. unless
her doting mother has to starve her toskeep
her lean.
Cosmetics in Hot Weather.
To make up ones face is at any time of
year unwise. but between May and October
it has peculiar dangers. The other day, on
an East River ferry boat, a trim and jaunty
girl stepped out of the ladies' cabin to the