Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1893-08-19
AMERICAN ADyENTUREssEs.
Pretty and Plausible, hut the Shop
keepers Are on Their Guard.

The American girls who come TO Paris TO
make a living or to study are usually a
hard-working. industrious set of women.
devoted to some particular branch 5f art
with the absorption and concentration Pc
culiar to our nation, writes Paris CORE
spondent OF the Philadelphia Telegraph.
But occasionally disreputaole exceptions 10
this good rule are to be lscoy ered- There
is at present a young western girl drifting
about Paris and living by her wits. She is
young and plausible and she tells her
plaintive tale of woe about her remlttances
being late, and that she is psnniless. ard
she will not have money 10 ray for her
dinner, till the heart Of the American male
is touched, ana he solemnly beStoWS upon
her sums of more or less importance, for
which she is infinitely grateful and which
are to be returned as soon as The ,ougede-
the remittances never arrive and equally,
OF course, the little game is repeated with
variations on every newcomer 10 the Amer
lean colony.
Naturally, when she tries this process
for the second time upon the same indi-
vidual she is very apt to be roundly
ueman who had already advanced her small
sums the other day to complain that she
owed her cabman five francs and she did
not know what she should 40, whereupon
her interlocutor remarked SPONTANEOUSLY
that he knew very well what the rabman
would do unless he was paid; he would
nave ntr pul JAIL SDe SflQ IL was SAD
to be poor. and received tie retort that
poor people should walk a1d not engage
cabs. She replied that she was 81 and " as
told that inyalids ought TO stay at home and
keep their beds: so she departed. discum-
flied but not crushed. She then went into
the establishment Of a well-Nnown jeweler
and asked to be shown some diamond or
naments, as a lady had cUrnmi3si 0ned her
to purchase for her. II was lunch time
and the shop was tenanted bv q solitary
clerk, who displayed a very go-g eous stock
OF gems to her delighted Eaze.
Suddenly she clutched At Ter throat and
fell back in her chair. Il am lying" she
moaned Water; 1 am dyingr' she then
yasped and gurGlei with most telling eff
feet: but. alas. the clerk was a wise young
man and knew the type Of woman with
whom he had TO deal. Instead. as size
anticipated he would do. OF losing his head
at the sight OF her terrible suffering and
rushing of for aid and iced water and
leaving her alone with he scattered gems,
he carefully put away all the Jewels, gave
her glass Of water and gently insin-
uated that for so grave an .'idisposinon
fresh air was the only true remedy, and
courteously and firmly showed her 10 the
door. He possibly would not have been SO
young lady's second visit TO the sane es-
adjustment On the first occasion she
came to explain that she vas bout TO sail
for America, and II the firm would give her
$4,000 worth OF diamonds that she would
smuggle them in free Of duty AID eeIiver
them to the American bran n. This as
founding proposition was politely declined.
So this little person floats along expanding
a treasure OF ingenuity in trying 10 swindle
her fellow beings. which, II turned into its
proper channel might earn for Ger An he n
est livelihood.