Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1900-04-30

enscader Our nation would not be faithful
to its ancient renown in matters of chivalry
il it did not attempt to assure these honest
workers the means of finding amid the
tohu bohu of the big fair, little repose,
comfort and tranquility. The fathers and
mothers on the plains of Saxony, on the
shores of the Thames, the Danube and the
mississippi. in the valleys of Norway and
Switzerland under the pines of the Black
Forest and amid the grain fields of Mimi
Novgorod, have a right to this security of
soul"
At the central house of the society No
40 Avenue de Breteui very handsome.
spacious. Clubable sort of place. | asked a
peasant-faced lady who received me to
sketch out the great lines of the work
For Their Protection.
I'VE wish. above ALL she replied, ito
save our proteges from the promiscuous-
ness of hotels garnis. furnished rooms, the
dangers of the street the perilous welcome
of the numberless gargotes Cheap eating
houses) that the spectators of both hemi-
spheres are bustling to exploit in Paris
during the six months kermesse A young
girl alone in Paris in the midst of such a
rasale runs a real risk. particularly when
a foreigner or novice, of being decoyed
or of knocking at the wrong door through
pure innocence
And who are to be your proteges?" 1
asked.
Any and all employees of the exposition
and the enterprises gathered round it,"
without distinction of religious confess
sion or nationality. Our first care is
TO find for each girl a temporary home.
comfortable to her social position and lone
ly condition Those who desire it-indeed,
the majority-wili be placed in private fam
lilies. with whom arrangements will be
made to suit. for lodging simply-lodging
with morning coffee and late dinner, or
hoo hnf, ~
grounds. We have also rented and furnished
a good number of conveniently situated
apartments. whose rooms will be at the
disposition of first corners as long as they
last. 1t need not be added that these apart
ments will be carefully looked after and
regulated. Then next there is the club
THE club?'
The Woman's Club.
This club-the house in which you are
standing. 1t is to be given up entirely to
club purposes the day after inauguration,
which is tomorrow. Here, besides all kinds
Of useful information, our young friends
will find reading rooms, correspondence
rooms, conversation rooms. After long days
of toll. We think it only right. too. to pro-
vide them with an evenings innocent enter
tainment. games, charades. and so on"
The picture of the average girl content
with games indoors, with glowing, sor-
geOus Paris in the full effulgence of the
nightly fin de steele raZzle-dazze all around
her. brought smile of half pity half
amusement, to my serious countenance. But
Is 1t not itself proof of the need? The
temptations?
1T is good scheme" l answered heart
lily.
"Oh. We shall have everything" the kind
French lady went on; musical and literary
evenings, in which the girls can take an
active part: lectures, living pictures, the
biograph and the monograph. We also
count on the lady patronesseS to make up
for US a library of entertaining books not
stupid books. and subscriptions (for six
months to all the pictorial weeklies and
magazines
1t is long call from the club of Les Amis
to the Palais du Costume. in the exposition
grounds-all the distance over the counter
all the way from the serving to the served
Here belle madame may study how the
bellies. danes of every age, from fig-leaved
Eve to SHake-Stung Cleopatra, and from the
lightly-robed Aspasia to the tightly-iaced
Pompadour. diSpOrted themselves like the
lilies. who toll not nor do they spin They
all are there. Yet If madame be not belle
If her shape be more that of barrel or a
beanpole than the gracefully curved. slen-
der wdxwOrks, and not yet too slender
that hers stand up in the bravery of past
ages, is she not really worse off than the
trim soubrette? The poor pretty girl NAV
comfort herself: think that no society has
yet been formed for the protection of plain
wealthy damsels. STERLING HEILIG.