Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1902-07-12

cueStiOn of prODriety arranged itself just
as it would at home. But when we reach
ed Paris mamma began TO do great deal
of questioning about the manners and the
customs. One evening two American young
men whom we had met in Switzerland
called at our Paris boarding house ard in
vited Amy and myself to go out somewhere.
Nothing doubling. we accepted and said We
would get our hats and coats. But mamma
said she felt responsible; she said that she
would have TO ask married couple, both
Americans who happened to be calling on
her at the moment. They would know,
for they had lived two years in Paris. The
young husband said:
II am astonished at the impudence of
these two young men! How dare they ask
your girls to go about alone with them?
His wife said the same, adding that
girls cannot be too careful in a wicked
city; while in boarding houses people are
censOriouS.
las a result the two young men were
dismissed lamenting. The further result
was that Amy wrote home that the climate
disagreed with her. L stayed on with
mamma, and that experience became the
baneful precedent Of all my Paris life.
1--WE have an amusing case in the house
at the present moment the American girl
abroad continued a pretty girl of nine
teen summers is here for the cultivation
of her voice, accompanied by a chaperon.
a widow who owns up 10 thirty-fOur round
seasons The girl with the voice walks
alone to her lessons in the day time. But
the young gentleman-or gentlemen, for
there are seyeral-invite the thirty-four-
year-Old widow also? The widow says yes;
she Is the girls chaperon. The girl can
hardly answer that a singing lesson and a
matinee come to the same thing.
1T therefore comes to this said the girl
who has been abroad five years, my poor
friend gets no more matinee Invitations,
while I never had any. And this is how we
spend our famous Paris evenings,
The Weeks Program.
"Sunday-Evening service at the Church
OF the English embassy, which may be va
ried by a visit to the Latin quarter annex
OF the Rev. DR.. Morgan's American Church
OF the Avenue de TAlma- Here one often
meets acQuaintances-and might make new
ones would my mother permit it. Even
the thirty-fOur-ye ar-old chaperon sees no
objection TO influencing for good the young
American art students who frequent these
meetings. Unfortunately. however, these
art students are regularly short of money
for which reason they are mOrtalIy afraid
OF girls. and often the poor fellows are
not dressed correctly. Also. they are a
lazy lot; and walking home from church
with a nice girl and her chaperon is not
one Of their favorite distractions.
'Monday-We three girls-because the
Chaperon is only thirty-fOur-sit writing
letters home. My mother is contented TO sit
in the salon and talk art and culture with
the more cultivated tourists
'-Tuesday-Let us say. one Of US has &
caller. AS either mother the chaperon
must be present at the interview, the other
one of us Is relief. The young man talks
to US of the delights OF Paris, but as Their.
are three Of US. ne does not ask US out. fl
would be too expensive
wv ednesday-The three of us incIudins
the chaperon. are invited to an evening
tea These nondescript entertainments. so
popular In Paris boarding house society
ssi+ ts.r
All the men will be in evening dress and
for two hours we girls will have a good
time. then We must go home with the cha
perou, assured by a hundred illusions that
the men will ask each other out to supper
They would ask US if they dared. They
dare not.
'"Thursday-One Of the girls Is asked to
the theater. She refuses; and the man has