The Roanoke times. (Roanoke, Va.) 1897-1977, 1897-06-15
STUDIED in PARIS.

There are several places in Paris
which advertise that the persons who
60 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 homo and
was loud in her praises of the advan-
tages Miss Smith had derived.
So Miss Jones went to this home OH
the Rue de In Pompe and prepared for
Il long course of study which was to fit
her for Il career on the grand opera
stage. The work went on satisfactorily
ut the start. But Miss Jones is an
American girl, with all the vivacity and
attractiyeness which are popularity sup
posed to be attributes of these girls.
The life i'll the home had not been par
ticularly pleasing to her in prospect,
but size soon found that tho reality was
been advertised. She discovered first
that apparently the greatest delicacy
the French managers of the institution
thought of was mutton-principal
aged mutton. The result of this was
that the girls were in the habit of 60
ing short of meals Mt the home and
finding better ones for themselves in
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 series
OF practical receptions. If it was easy
to go to restaurant for q meal, it was
just as easy to go somewhere else for
something else.
Everybody who is studying any art
i'll Paris quickly becomes acquainted
with lot of other people who arc
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 moro or
less well 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 namo 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
arc 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 a
friend, Mr.. Williams, who was very
well verscd i'll the ways of Paris, and
between them they contrived to make
the winter very entertaining, if little
hectic, for Miss Smith and her attract
Two friend Miss Jones.
The conquest of Mr.. Arbuthnot by
Miss Jones proceeded gradually but
very steadily, until early in 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 Pompc
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 i'll the open. The whole
institution ca the Rue dc la Pompe
knew about it, and the girls wagered
gloves and candy OH tho outcome. AS
long as the warfare was conducted in
the open Miss Jones maintained her
ascendancy rather easily, largely be-
cause of her superior attractivoness. So
the willy Miss Smith resorted to subter-
!uge and strategy. One morning in
March Mrs. Jones in New York received
cable message from Paris 1t said:
Amelia i'll. Doctor thinks better come
BABE.
Babe" was the nickname of Miss
Jones once intimate friend, Miss Smith.
Mrs. Jones was shocked almost into
nervous prostration. Mrs. jones sent