The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1892-06-19
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DOORS
The furniture Of the apartment is provided
by the student and is generally of the most
primitive description, soap boxes forming a
large proportion of it. they are converted
into bureaux, window seats and book cases.
then there are few chairs, picked up at a
convenient secondhand shop. In fact. the
only new article is the divsn, which cost So
and also serves as bed. Yet the American
girl usually contriVes to give an air OF COM
fort to her surroundings and to make her
room coy and home-like. For a sisgls in
dividual does not indulge in the luxury OF a
whole apartment, but shares it with several
of her compstriots. They engage femme
de MENACE" who sweeps, makes the beds,
cooks and whose wages are cents an hour
Breakfast is prepared by the girls them
selves, and requires only an alcohol lamp as
fuel. Sometimes the femme de menage Is
dispensed with as an unnecessary luxury
aud, after all, living in Paris is easy
enough, even when one assumes household
duties The gas companies rent out stoves
to these Bohemisns at 90 cents a month.
Nearly every vegetable, canned or fresh,
can be bought already cooked, and in as
small quantities as desired soup and meats
can also be bought prepared for the table,
and poultry is sent to the house steaming
hot from she spit. Only American sojourn-
ing in Paris have any idea Of the number
of girl students who live there alone.
No one art student in fifty is with his
mother or chsperon. She often crosses with
friends, selects pension or q private fam.
lily, where she finds the terms too high or
the food TOO scanty, and it Ia not long be-
fore she meets one or more congeaial spirits
in the studio, who are quite willing to take
an apartment with her.
Girl art students in Paris are always In
or Thpu IN THAR nj To
gether, and to places of entertainment aud
IL is very rare that they are accosted on the
streets. Parsians have vague idea of our
habits and customs, aud the knowledge that
q girl is an American is quite enough to
excuse any seeming eccentricity. TO see
an American girl is TO know her nationality.
There is al in iehnite something in her air,
her walk, her carriage, which stamps her
unmistakably.
In the schools women have exactly the
same advantages as men. but unfortunately
they pay just twice the prics for them.
IL is often asked, What are the ndVan-
tsges of art study abroad~ There is but
one reply, THE art atmosphere" In
America criticisms are as conscientious aud
masters much more psiustaking than In
Paris, but the workers are not as serious on
this side OF the water. Probably the knowl-
edge that tune 10 limited aud one must make
the most of opportunities, has something
to do with this, but the exceptional facilities
for study in Paris, and the respect with
which art is regarded there, have more A
man wbo has achieved fame in the art
world there 10 regarded with as much vener-
alton as veritsble sovereign. Students
form colony of their own, where art
reigns supreme. The subject Of converse.
ton is art, the aim Of each good work
The Louvre and Luxembourg may always
be visited. The old and new salons open
their doors every spring. and there are at
least a dozen smaller exhibitions during the
year, so that the student can study at his
leisure the works of any school aud of any
period. HENRY RUSSELL WHAY.