The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1900-05-06

Paris, that sentence would have i'm
piled an isolation from all that is sweet,
safe and wholesome in a WOman's life,
and exposure to all that is hard TO en-
/ dure. but Paris is not any longer the
Paris of my student days.
Latin Quarter Girls.
THE real revolution in this gay city
has been created by American women
chiefly; first and foremost by the girls
of the Latin quarter who have robbed
that locality by their presence Of one
half it's snares and difficulties and ugly
reputation, and then by the hordeS Of
fair travellers from the states, who are
coming over in relays Of thousands this
GUNNER to thoroughly AmericaniZe the
life on the foreign streets. So predOTni-
nant is the influence of our women
here that if had d young daughter to
educate in art I'd just as lief she went
to Paris alone to pursue her studies as
to New York Philadelphia or any of
our home cities. Thirty years ago 1
would have packed my trunk, come
along with her and never let her out
of my sight, for what we went through
with in those days when the Ameri-
can girl student was a novelty to Par
isians, you could now hardly believe
possible.
as safe and comfortable a location for
a high-sOuled, Well-bred young woman
as the Latin quarter/then, particularly
if she insisted. as our girls do now, on
having her own studio and living right
in and of this Bohemian life. A couple
of nice damsels voyag ing about on their
own hard earned pennies to enjoy a va
cation abroad saw less of what l NAV
call the seamy side but unless they
Partisan street customs made theirs
hard road to travel
when / first came here from Ohio it
took me about three days to discover
that 1 wasn't wanted anywhere; not in
the ateliers, where the male students
pestered and insulted me, often to a
fearful crisis not by the Iandladies,
who wanted nothing to do with so &C.
centric and suspicious character as a
young woman alone. and not on the
streets. where only servant women and
market girls in that day went Unescort-
ed. can assure you if it had not been
for a few other American girls here en-
during the same bitter initiation /
would, in sheer fright and loneliness.
have gone back to Ohio. Well, happily,
that semi-nedaeVal condition passed,
and 7 smile when I hear American pa
rents object to their daughters living
in Paris for fear they VIII adopt Par
isian notions and habits. / can promise
you that the shoe is on the other foot.
and the American girl is the most DOM
mating presence and influence in Paris.
Just watch them, if you please.
swinging along the streets in groups
or singly every day. With the expOsi-
ton on hand you can go a block with
out looking into a pair of frank. young
ewes that speak in their glance of
independent Anglo-SaXOn wOmanhood-
Why, in my student days a decently
goOd-looking, tidily dressed girl could
not walk twenty steps from her own
door without suffering the egregiOus
impudenee or unpleasant fattery, such
as l am sorry to say even the most
gentlemanly GaUl thinks it his privi-
lege to thrust upon the lonely female.
Today though, the man in the street
has not quite fOresworn his old teas
ing habits it is being more ard more
forcibly born in on his very perceptive
Gallo mind ihat the. daughters Of In
Gle Sam are neither simsyous or easily