The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1900-01-06
STUDYING ART IN PARIS.

There are hundreds of American
girls studying art in the Latin quarter
of Paris. The majority Of these are
poor, many Of them are i'll, all of them
ovarwor.lxed. A few succeed. Three
different ways of living have been
adopted by this colony Of students:
one is to sleep in a studio or furnished
room and so to small restaurants in
the nefghborglood for meals; another
is to stay at the American Girls club
in the Rue CheOreuse, and the third
is to board with a French family. In
each case the average cost a month is
about $50.
The life is like nothing in the United
States for what in New York, Chicago
OF any of the large cities would be a
tenement house, in price and surround
ngs in Paris is an old studio, under
crumbling red tiled roof. 1t has a
balcony reached by an uncertain stair
way from the court below, where the
concierge clatters about in wooden sa-
bots, brushing away the autumn leaves
that have drifted in from a near gar
den whose OdOTs come on the damp,
misty air of Paris that filters into the
Veins Of and possesses men, making
them, from one generation to another,
commit every folly, every sacrifice for
art.
IT IS A BITTER LIFE.
Studios may be rented in the Latin
quarter at all prices from 500 to $3.50
a year but for no less time than a
year Several rooms and a kitchen are
included for the higher price, but for
the more modest sums girls content
themselves with a small balcony at one
end Of the atelier, which they arrange
as a bedroom and manage to keep in
order with the aid of q. fernms de me-
mage, who charges z cents an hour for
her services as chambe1maid
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 to dis
guise the fact; art is preceded by do
mestic duties; she makes a fire on ris-
ing; she heats water; through the door
she slips in small bottle Of milk, two
rolls a dfminutive piece of butter, left
on the stairway at an early hour, and
with some coffee which she extracts
from a cupboard full of paints brush
Is. canvas, trpentine and groceries she
prepares her morning meal at a cost
OF cents
Innumerable Americans whose day
has begun in this way assemble to-
gether with Russian, Swedish, German
and French girls between s and g
O'Clock, at the different schools which
are open all day and all evening. The
mOse popular of these are Julian's,
COiarossi's and Willis, where the best
French masters cTiticise once or twice
a week. The average cost for drawing
or painting in the life classes is Sc a
month for the mornings, afternoons or
evenings, IS or SO for any two classes !
The WhistleTs school is for painting
only, and it is impossible to enter it
for less than three months at a cost of |
$2S. Raphael Collin, Courtois and Da-
guam BOuveret also have private |
classes which are more expensive. The |
models pose for fifty minutes rest for |
ten and at the end of the morning |
seance the students make their way
TO one Of the cheap restaurants of the |
quarter, where they lunch for about 20 |
cents; item for example: Napkin. |
cent; beefsteak, s cents; bread 2 cents: |
potatoes, 4 cenfsfh dessers or coffee, A ]
cents; fee, 1 cent. Total, 20 cents.
Some Of these places are frequented |
by maSons, teamsters, workmen of all |
sorts The handicapped tables, sur !
rounded by small, straight backed |
chairs, are nailed to a wooden floor |
sprinl1led over with sawdust The |
American takes her place side by side |
with a miller or d countryman in a blue
blouse and eats tough meat and greasy |
soup from coarse, thick china, unwilling |
even to admit that she is making sac
Tifices for art.
The most popular of the restaurants
IS "Henriette's." in the Rue Leopold
Robert HenTiette has studied the