Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1895-03-23

so penetrated with sweet reasonableness
that love. which Is an idle flower of life,
would be stranger to their youth. So
marriage would be less question of senti-
ment than of business. But every one has
seen that this cannot be the case; remark
the devoted international couples who love
SO truly that even after flight or separate
they often manage to make 1t I'D again.
At present there is a special reason why
the old families Of France should prefer
marrying American money $50 to speak,
rather than give admission into their circle
to the daughter Of even a richer bourgeois
at home. The republicans of America are
not SO obnoxious, historically, to what re-
mains OF the old noblesse; and, strange to
say, the rich American is often more in
sympathy with the cherished ideas of the
past than Is the new element Of Europe
1t has recently been pronounced from out
this mysterious heaven Ito which Henry
James this time did full justice in 1.-THE
Americans'D that IAN American man re-
mains an American always, under what
ever latitude chance may bring him; on the
contrary 1t Is enough that woman Of his
old Europe for her to take up its customs
and habits. Put that in your pipes and
smoke 1t, oh, Daughters Of the Revolution
and colonial danes. Another very general
Gently or on what occasion. need it be
said0 by the head of a ducal family in ad-
vising one Of his mates on the question of
matrimony: MY dear fellow, choose your
enc in America, for henceforward we can
not admit any other alliances"
or all the types of American girl abroad
the student is the most pleasing and the
least pathetic When little tub is full
even great big tub can be no fuller-I
mean that each is full; and whatever be
the students capacity, she Is absorbed in
her work. has constant spring of activity
and is thus enabled to lead the most natu-
raj life. though transplanted. If girl be
plain 1t matters nothing. If she be poor
she is the best provided for. The American
Girls Art Club in Paris Rue de Chevreuse)
it has yearly a handsome deficit, which is
said to be made good by Mrs. Whitelaw
Reid. There Is matronly supervision, esprit
du corps, comfort and cheapness. Every
one says so. The girls enjoy a good social
position from their mere habitation of the
establishment, and they appear to be more
or less petted now and then Though not
enough to spoil them) by some of the
American residents (class 5, elderly ladies'
who do good). At 10 pm. the lights are ex-
tinguished and the house closed up; but
should a social engagement detain an in
mate the concierge will open the door when
any hour to the young lady.
There are other institutions for the amel-
ioration Of the condition Of American girl
art students in Paris. Some have been in
courts. All evidently do the best they can,
being founded in good will and maintain
ed and supervised at the personal incon-
venience the crumpled rose leaf of those
to whom Prof. Goodwin Smith very un-
justly applied the phrase excuse for an
archy," SO little he knew the American
colony of Paris. Nevertheless, many girl
art students prefer to live freely in their
own apartments, clubbing together, or
board In private families. Each system has
it's advantages.
What strange fate pushes poor girls into
such a miserably paid profession as paint
ing and draws such a large proportion Of
rich girls into such a splendidly paid ca
reer as singing is mystery which Is ex-
planned only on the physiological ground of
feeding. A girl must be well nurtured and
cared for from her youth to be a great
singer; while there is something in the
proud dejectedness and restless WEAKNESS
of the painter that goes best with high
thinking and poor living.
STERLING HELLO.