New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1905-10-22

time is regulated by law, but different period
may be mutually agreed upon. Rooms rented
by the month require notice of fifteen days,
and if the is to be given up on the first
of the month notice must be given before the
preceding fifteenth 1t is frequently claimed
that a months notice must be given Thus 1t is
easy to see how important it is that the term of
notice should be specified in d written contract,
understood by both parties. 1t is best to give
| notice by registered letter, mailed not later than
the 18th of the month According to German
postal law, such letters must be placed in the
hands of the person to whom they addressed
or some holding power of attorney, and as
the one who deposits the letter receives a re-
ceipt, there is never any difficulty in proving
that the notice has been duly sent.
LOOK OUT FOR EXTRAS"
In making arrangements not only the terms
for room and board must be thoroughly under
stood. but those for the so-cailed extras'-heat
light, service and baths well. Otherwise the
boarder is liable to receive unpleasant
prise when her bill is rendered and it is too late
to regulate it. The music student must not
neglect to arrange her hours for practice. as
these are regulated by certain house laws
Should difficulties arise, the stranger should at
once consult an able lawyer, who under
stands English by preference. 1t may her
much annoyance well as money, for not in
frequently the matter can be adjusted out of
court
There are many different types of girls
among the hundreds that come to Germany each
year that it is difficult to find the rule for all.
Indeed, the presence of so many American stu
dents in the larger cities of Germany is a source
of grave anxiety to all thoughtful American
women residing in the country. They see as
no others can the dangers and errors into which
their young countrywomen so easily fall, and
hear the criticisms often unjust and cruel, to
which these girls are subjected by those who
do not understand them. One woman after a
residence abroad that has covered a period of
more than twenty-five years, seventeen of which
have been spent in Germany has summed up the
results of her observations and experiences as
follows
ADVICE TO PARENTS
"In my opinion. it is a very grave mistake
for American and English parents to send
young girls over here for educational purposes
unless they expect to marry them or fit them
for permanent residence in foreign country
This is especially the case in Germany. Young
people acquire many other things besides the
knowledge of language. They lose their taste
for simple home pleasures and forget their re-
sponsibilites as members OF family circle be-
fore experience has taught them how to use
their liberty of action and seedom from re-
straint to the best advantage. They do not
acquire the systematic. careful home training
which the average German hausfrau gives her
daughter; and, again. they do not get whatever
advantages result from American home train
ing. They do not reap the full benefit of either
system, and they not fully at home in either
country To the native born citizens the girls
are always foreigners, who are more or less
suspected account of their dangerous indie
pendence of ideas.
The loss on the domestic side is by no
means the greatest. Many girl who has been
faithful in her church attendance. or who has
been interested in local charities and in the
good works in which most girls in an American
community take more or less active part ac-
quires an Indifference to these things through
her residence abroad. She is placed in condi-