New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1905-09-03

there Is abuse OF the independence If girls do
not allow themselves to do wild and improper
things that thsy would think of attempting ct
home. they can live by themselves in lodgings
without criticism comment But f they are
Wild tf they initiate the behavior of some Polish
Russian or Austrian girl students. who bold to
coarseness and free to license, they may be sure
that in spite of being apparently lost in Paris from
observation at home, account of their doings
Will reach to places where it will do them harm.
Whether she is good for the sake of goodness or
good because it is the wisest policy to follow. any
girl may be sure that her candle of conduct will
not be hid under bushel in Paris.
Before going to Paris at all the student should
mako sure that she get better instruction there
than ct home, though there are of course ad-
Fantages in studying in the very centre of art. in
one Of the centres of music. She must also make
sure of an income that will keep her while she is
at work, for there is possibility of earning any
thing in Paris. Not only is there time, but
Americans wanted IN any department of
industry. They can almost never get pupils in
English. because those who study our language
English, American accent They
cannot arrange to give lessons in exchange for
room and board, is possible in Germany, for
the same reason, and for the further that
French people keep too exclusively within
tional customs to admit a foreigner to their home
circle When they do receive the pair,
exchange of living is called, when such
change can be made at a school (Which is some
times done), the entire time of the foreigner is
pected, or so much of it leaves no chance to do
other work. To have a stated income is therefore
absolutely necessary, though this income may be
very small. 1t is possible to live in farts COM
fortably and deccntly. $40 month. I told
some do it on less, but these are men students
A girl cannot venture TO do with less, though two
or three girls together might bring living expenses
down to s. or SIC.
LOOKING FOR A LOGEMENT.
'Ths cheap living is only possible in apartments
or in n logement. the name given to room or very
small fat that cannot under the proper term
of apartment Bor the latter there is imposed on
the tenant tax according to the situation and to
the number of windows The tenant not the land
lord is responsible for this tax and for several
others that we never hear of in America. For this
reason it is best to avoid apartment and seek
logement In this there may be from one to three
or four rooms, but they are not fitted for house.
keeping apartments. The necessary things,
such wahr and stove, can be added by the
tenant, and there is for anything, the loge-
rnent being considered as belonging to the lessee of
the house, as a furnished room does. 1t is usually
not furnished. il is better that it should not
be- as the price asked for furnished room or loge-
nent is greatly in excess of one unfurnished. while
the furniture is not apt TO he either interesting or
sufficient The outlay for necessary articles need
not be great in the beginning, and things can be
sold when one is done with them for prices that
leave little, if any, out Of pocket, considering
the use one has had BY purchasing little at a
time one can, moreover, pick up odds and ends that
are interesting in themselves and nice take home
eventually.
The determining condition in the choice Of a