The St. Louis Republic., 1903-01-11
PARIS PERILS THAT MENACE
UNPROTECTED AMERICAN GIRLS.
Tragedy Uniquely Except Publicity Given
o t-M Men Free Pay Court Women Who Chance
to Tc Away From Mother, Guardian tIlaperon

The tragedy Of Mrs. Ellen Gore does not
| stand on, uniquely in the annals of the
! American colony in Paris. except by the
publicity that has been given to it. Othet
American girls have been done to death OF
left to di. in mystery and Indifference. And
lust as there are tragedies that do not be-
come. known. SO there are more that stop
at tn. supreme sacrifice of life The girl
| has saved her life. yet carries hate and sad
ness in her heart.
Most numerous Of all however, are those
| who have played with danger. who have
willfully and iGnorantly let themselves he
nut in false positions. who have been be-
fooled into ail sorts of compromises
III. truth il that our girls who come 10
Par.s walk. as the Lady walked IN
..Comus" very innocent amid Il horrid rout
protected mainly by their innocence and
lain dumb luck against all kinds of beasts.
says the Paris correspondent Of the Ne"
York Sun.
The really tragic thing is the indifference e
of our colony. Would you think IL wouio
| LET a nice girl atarve to death: girl IL hao
received at o'clock teas?
The girl who had starved to dtath hau
com. 10 Paris ITO write for the magazines.
A, tho beginning she lived On some funds;
she had brought with her. She found every
.irl she met engaged III seeming 10 o'
some hing: even rich girls went TO the hie
classes. or the singing classes or to lectures
al the university. The new girl prea.heu i''
hone and confidence. Success Wouid coiie
to her if she worked conscientiousiy. Msuh,
whil, she spent her money and established
g. wide circle of acquaintances- Poor mo
cont Sh,, soon caught the malaria OF the
COLONY Among the lotus eaters. in thelr al :
mosphere of cultured dillydnlly, she iea'ne"
to kill time planning work she never mn
ished; and the fatal habit OF the AFTERNOON
tea was fastened on her
COLONY WAS KIND.
How could she dream that tragedy could
wait ot the end of so much careless klnu-
ness? The colony was kind. She had TWO
rooms she did not entertain: no one eS-
pected IL of her: and it was no one 5 puei-
ness how she lived. She was very pretty.
and the rout Of Comus pressed hef soreiH
theoretically she was doing her own COOK
ing when she died. The colony is tehdei
hearted in its way. 1t is now told how IN
dulgsnt erandes DANES used TO turn their
heads and seem to take no notice wheh the
girl slipped surreptitious sandwiches ana
cakes into her pockets al their o Gioch
teas.
SO the girl weakened. gently. dawdhns III
her very starving. dillydallyins in dying,
true to the last to the spirit of the colony.
The doctors said that she died of debiiitE.
They gave her handsome funeral at
church j., the Avenue de iAlma. ana the
flowers. cost a great deal of money.
In Its practical Indifference to these thlhsS
our colony in Paris copies French society,"
which has no protection for girls uhprotect-
ed by their parents.
In Paris any man is free to pay his
court TO any girl he may have the sooa
luck to discover parted for the moment
from her mother. guardian or chaperon he
may follow her on the street. saying what
l,a r-itl. ha
academies. singing schools and lecture
rooms: he may waylay her in hotel c0rri-
dors and dog her up and down boarding
house Stairways. Whatever happens, he Is
always in the right and she is always in the
wrong.
EMPLOYED WOMAN TEACHER.
If the French have rules like these for
their daughters. how shall the foreigner es-
cape them?
There Is a girl from America in Paris at
the present moment talented and beauti-
full, whose voice may make her fortune as
the world goes. Three times she has had to
change her music teacher in the past year,
and she is now working with woman
trainer! The men could not refrain from
trying for successes with a girl whose
dismay would have cooled down an Anglo
Saxon man.
One of these male Partisan voice trainers
lima gined a subterfuge that so recalls the
earlier incidents of the Gore tragedy that
it might well serve as a key for the unlock
ing of the latter mystery.
The girl had left him for another vocal