Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1897-06-26
STUDIED IN PARIS.

There are several places i'll Paris
which advertise that the persons who
go there will be surrounded with all the
salutary restraints and influences of
home life and that there will be whole
some discipline to safeguard the young
women from all the allurements and
entanglements of the French capital.
One of these homes was selected by
Mrs. Jones for her daughter, partly be-
cause of the prospectus and partly be-
cause Mrs. Jones' friend, Mrs Smith,
had sent her daughter to the home and
was loud In her praises of the advan-
tages Miss Smith had derived.
So Miss Jones went to this home on
the Rue de la Pompe and prepared for
a long course of study which was to fit
her for a career on the grand opera
stage. The work went on satisfactorily
at the start But Miss Jones is an
American girl, with all the vivacity and
attractiveness which are popularity sup
posed to be attributes of these girls
The life in the home had not been par
ticularly pleasing to her in prospect,
but she soon found that the reality was
great deal different from what had
been advertised. She discovered first
that apparently the greatest delicacy
the French managers of the institution
thought Of was mutton-principally
aged mutton. The result of this was
that the girls were in the habit of &C
ing short of meals at the home al
g. /
nearby restaurants. The knowledge that
they could go out to these restaurants
for their meals without restraint and
without comment from the managers of
the home led very quickly to a series
of practical deceptions. If it was easy
to go to restaurant for meal, it was
just as easy to go somewhere else for
something else.
Everybody who is studying any art
in Paris quickly becomes acquainted
with a lot of other people who are
studying the same art or another. Ev
cry singing master gives his musicales,
every master of drawing, painting and
sculpture gives his little receptions.
The pupils meet, and it is impossible to
prevent the young American women
from meeting and becoming more Or
less we'll acquainted with various young
and attractive men of artistic tempera-
ment who are also studying under Paris
masters. That thing happened very
quickly in the case of Miss Jones. She
| found that her friend, Miss Smith, had
already formed some pleasing acquaint-
ances, and, as Miss Smiths intimate
chum, she almost Immediately met the
young man whose acquaintance finally
sent her back to New York.
Miss Jones was particularly attract
i've. There was one young man among
those to whom Miss Smith introduced
her who, Miss Jones noticed, was par
ticularly attractive to Miss Smith.
Now this young man was the best Of
the lot, and his name was near enough
to Arbuthnot to let it go at that. Miss
Jones fancied Mr.. Arbuthnot herself.
Mr.. Arbuthnot was very well acquaint-
ed with all the things in Paris which
are worth seeing and with some things
to which women who have gone from a
home where they are surrounded with
all the restraints and safeguards of
home life" were not supposed to be in
troduced. Mr.. Arbuthnot also had
friend, Mr.. Williams, who was very
we'll versed in the ways of Paris, and
between them they contrived to make
the winter very entertaining, if little
hectic, for Miss Smith and her attract
i've friend, Miss Jones.
The conquest of Mr.. Arbuthnot by
Mics 1DnoS nrnoDa1ol f,1a11a al1v h1it
very steadily, until early i'll the new
year it produced almost an open rupture
between Miss Jones and Miss Smith.
The quarrel interrupted rather seriously
the gay course which the four had been
pursuing, but it did not put stop to it
entirely. 1t was easy enough for each
of the girls to associate with herself
other young women who were living at
the institution on the Rue de la POM
and so to make no serious break in their
round of gayeties.
By the middle of February the an
nexation of Mr. Arbuthnot to Miss
Jones was SO complete that the warfare
was conducted in the open. The whole
institution on the Rue de la Pompe
| knew about it, and the girls wagerei
gloves and candy on the outcome.
| long as the warfare was conducted
the open Miss Jones maintained
ascendancy rather easily, largel
cause of her superior attractivene
the willy Miss Smith resorted tol
fuge and strategy. One mo
March Mrs. Jones in New Yor
cable message from Paris.
Amelia ill. Doctor thinks better
Babe" was the nickname
Jones once intimate friend, Mis-
Mrs. Jones was shocked aim
nervous prostration. Mrs. Jo
word posthaste to her daug hter'
ian, who is physician. Th
told Mrs. Jones to cable at oncl
! symptoms of Amelia's illness