The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1899-12-10
GTRL ART STUDENTS ~ PARIS.
Hardships with which Hundreds of Ameri.
can Women Put Up.

PAnIs Nov l5-Thcrc are hundreds Of Amer.
can girls studying art In the Latin quarter of
Paris The majority Of these are poor, many Of
them arc in poor health all 81 them are ovcrworked
A few succeed Three different ways Of living
have been adopted by this colony of students
One is " sleep in a studio or furnished room and
go 10 small restaurants in the neighborhood for
meals. another is Ia stay al the American Girls
Club and the third is u board with French family
In each case the cost month Is about S35.
The life Is like nothing in the United States,
for what in New York. Chicago or any Of the large
cities would be n tenement house, in price and sur
roundings in Paris IL an Old studio. under a
crunblinE red tiled roof and IL has balcony
reached by an uncertain stairway from the court
below where the concierge clatters about in wooden
sabots, brushing away the autumn leaves that
have drifed in from near garden WHOSE odors
come on the damp misty cir Of Paris. Studios
may be rented in the Latin quarter at all prices
nom 500 10 $3.50 year, but for no less than
wear. Several rooms and kitchen are included
for the higher prices, but for the more modest
sums girls content themselves with a small hal
cony al one end of the atclcr which they arrange
as bedroom and manage 10 keep in order with
the aid II woman who charges seven cents an
hour for her services as chambermad
The winter days dawn cold and damp in Paris
and the American student has neither a furnace
register nor steam heat. nor running hot water
10 disguise the fact Art is preceded by domestic
duties she makes flrc on rising she heats water:
through the door she slips in a small bottle Of
milk two rolls. u diminutvc piece OF butter. left
on the stairway at an early hour. and with some
coffee which she extracts from O cupboard full
Of paints. brushes, canvas, turpcntne and grocer
ics she prepares her morning meal at a cost Of
seven cents
.ll uhn iay has
in this way assemble together with Russian.
Swedish, German and French girls, between
arc open all day and all evening. At the end II
the morning scanCc the students make their way
TO- one % NE ChTaP S 20 Gs, OF Gs GMncr
Napkin l cent. bcestcak, cents: bread .
cents potatoes, 4 cents dessert or coffee, cents.
fec, cent total. 20 cents Some Of these places
| ore frequcntcd by mn~,nS, Transfers workmen Of
all SORTS The arblc,toppcd tables surrounded
wooden floor sprinkled over with sawduSt The
American takes her place side ty side with n
| miller or a corntryman IN blue blouse and eats
tough meat and greasy soup from coarse, thick
china, unwilling even 10 admi, tina, she Is making
sacrifices for art
afternoons. but those who have studios generally
work alone or share a model with friends. Models
| are expensive. Canvas and paints are also .eH.
pcnsivc and fire Is necessity where models
| will not pose without These things far more
than food and lodging augment The expense
| of studying art In Paris
II is at tea time, between 1 and O'Clock in the
afternoon, that the American Girls Club plays
| a role in most Of the students lives Six years
| ago the club was organized \ library and a
restaurant were opened 10 all American women;
| furnished rooms IN an agreeable old house built
about garden were offered from 81 10 SIS month.
including free Of two large wcll-hcatcd draw
| ing rooms and n tea room where every after
| noon in the year any Amer lean woman in Paris
may have as much tea and as much bread and
butter as she wants, at the kind hospitality Of
| the founder and patroness Of the club,
Two evils seem 10 he common 10 all women
students and bread winners. one is oycrwork
and the other Is gradual starvation. Nine Amer
lean girls have gone crazy in the Latin quarter
because they worked all day and all evening and
ave sI one n'ncranle meal day ana great many
cents u day girl may be well fed al the club:
most Of the girls never spend more than forty
cents for breakfast, lunch and dinner. There
are no restrictions for entering Any unmarried