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mind. She has no swishy fringe or leather
effects, nor even solitary spangle. Her
face is set and determined and she car
ries quite openly a sheet of paper contain
ing advertisements of flats pasted upon 1t.
She looks about rather dazed by the fur
nishings, and then becomes aware OF the
chorus in the room beyond. Her lips draw
in line of despair and she seems about
to retreat. Then, as no one pays the least
attention to her, she coughs slightly and
moves a chair. The confab ceases Tor just
an instant and is resumed as a pompa-
doured young woman enters with very
fashionable manner and looks the tired
woman over somewhat disapprovingly.
Then she says:
':IH see you in one moment. Be seated.
please"
She exits with loud rustic of taffeta
the sound of which adds to the general
Wagnerian effect-the she motif, as James
Huneker would call it, Within the sanctum
of chiffons the chorus swells into per-
feet ecstasy of shrlll discords on the sub
ject OF Irish lace coats and the newest
colorings in hair. There are some quick
staccato yelps denounclng the auburn tresses
Mrs Gotrox has brought with her from
Paris and creseendo of JOY over the fact
that her ermine opera cloak has been dis
covered to be pure cat
All this time the tired woman looks some
what wonderingIy at the door. but waits
desperately, occasionally reading her pasted
slip mechanically At this moment the Pom
padour returns, coming in briskly and say
Now, madam, what can / do for your
II am looking for rooms. something small
for very small family-for housekeeping
and a good neighborhood. 1 have beer
looking for days in the ordinary offices, but
seeing your advertisement IL at once seemed
to offer hope. Certainly woman can dea
with another woman on the subject better
than with n man.
You have a husband. you say?'
The tired woman starts somewhat at the
question, then recovers herself and smiles
slightly as she answers:
res, one husband and little girl"
I'VE have charming second floor right
near the Waldorf: three rooms, only two
thousand year, but then they won't take
dogs or children"
Something small would do, but we should
like five or six rooms at least-you see
We"
There's a reconstructed mansion In 36ti
street that would be just the thing for you
the first floor: old bronze knobs through.
out--a thoroughly delightful man is DIR
I.aythemout; real marble mantels and al
that sort of thing; right in the club dis.
trict. you see. and so convenient to the
Waldorf
I'VE are not particular about getting nea,
the Waldorf; we are very simple people
and"
why don't you go to HarIem?"
I'VE prefer downtown. Our little CIR
goes to Miss reachems school, and sc
we
Perhaps you'd like studio? We have
the love,iest place in 17lil street. It's ovel
a stable and has stained glass windows
/ Only four thousand year? No. there'i
no bath, no plurnbinE whatever. but III
SO artistic; just the thing for you. Thsl
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~ -ENE-Sixth floor of a studio build
ing. Entrance door of suite bears
A the legened. Harriet Hotstun,' real
estate" The room is arranged
with a suggestion of new art in the deco
rations, and there are such gentle feminine
touches as a rubber plant in a blue china
jardinicre, magazines on low table. Van
Dyke and Emerson maxims in passepartout
and an Illuminated text, DO 1t Today"
hangs over a small desk with empire legs.
An inner room curtained off intimates that
the real work OF the Office may possibly
be done there; may conceal the inevitable
typewriter telephone and more severe eff
fects. II is perfect stage setting for the
business place of a womanly woman dainty.
yet lacking cushions or a tea table
The era Is here and now-the woman's
age-of progress and advancement in the
professions and vocations The time is
about 10 clock on a Saturday morning
The persons of the drama are a tired wom-
an IN search OF dwelling place and a
young woman so new she might almost be
described as fresh. She has a fine COM
maud of language and is familiar with all
the motions of a real estate agent
Besides these two there is chorus.
strictly feminine. from the inner room
This chorus is significant OF the note of
sex that runs through even ,le most brill
liant achievements of woman In business
or in art. The Venus de Milo was undoubt-
edly carved by man; a woman would have
put a marble bowknot In her hair.
As the curtain rises the stage is empty,
but the voices of the chorus are heard in
full blast from the inner room somewhat
undistingushabe. like this
There is no use trying to get her TO make
gown loose enough across the bust-her
idea of a fit is to half cnoke you. It's
perfectly awful"
I'm going to have that deep, swishy
silk fringe, It's stunning in gun metal
gray Don't you just love fringe?'
Yes, It's too sweet for anything-but
rather middle-aged-just a trifie, you know.
Stll, when It's the latest thing one must
have it!'
''All except that shirring they're sending
from Paris on the gowns. It's abominable
makes you look like meal bag I'll never
wear it, for one--y0u see IT'S this way"
Mrs. Megargee has one of those shirred
gowns but she'll wear anything. Did YOU
see her at Maillard's the other day? White
broadcloth trimmed with black leather!
/ say leave the harness for the horses,'
"Ha-ha-ha-ha."
''He-he-he-hei'
''Yes-going to the matinee in a brown
pongee and picture hat-you see my all
iowance is small and can't wear anything
but silk stockings and
THE new haas are so frghtfully funny
like caricatures or cotilion fayorsi Myra
SAYS she will wear black straw sailor all
winter sooner than
And to think of spangles coming in
again, Not for me. thank you. / always
Imagine they look immoraI--it's So
About here the Tired Woman enters,
gowned with that lack OF attention to
small detail which marks preoccupied
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there's a man looks after the place. He
takes care of the horses while the owner
is in Europe and acts as janitor-"
mo, we wish just an ordinary, comfort
able apartment light and airy, with the
usual conveniences. range and hot water
and tubs
Tubs, did you say?'
Yes, tubs-wash tubs. Surely you know
what wash tubs are?"
'Oh, of course, I-he-he-he-know what
they are; but in studios. you SEE
But we don't want studio.
The Tired Woman seems to be getting
trife nervous and angry, while the Pom
padour is gaining ease and conversational
speed every minute. She is also aeeumu-
lating much pent-up scorn. She says:
Dear me, why didn't you say so? Ii
you want regular housekeeping. why there
is Paradise Court-directly on Riverside
eighteen rooms and seven baths-separate
safe in the library. What? Twelve thou
sand year! A bargafn And a carryall
to take you to the subway-so convenient
to the subway"
I'VE don't care to be near the subway"
Don't care to be-well, I never heard
of such thing Then there's the Knock
email Out, on Central Park west, with ga
rage and a roof garden dining room,
Turkish bath and an orchestral pianola in
each roomi'
'Oh, no. no, no, Please don't talk of such
things. ] don't think you understand. We
wish small. modest
DO you mind going over a shop"
DO | mind what?
Taking rooms over shop? It's quite
the smart thing to do nowadays, you knowi
Quite London like! We have two rooms
over shop on 54th street"
What kind of a shop.
'It's-er-er a cafe, believe a very fash
ionable place-and, er-er-do you keep a
dog?"
''oh, no, no. no! We only
But, you have one child you say?"
yes, we've didn't intend to live in
| flats; you see, we
Wei, they are very nice about a little
noise IN this place and 1t would just suit
you Prof Boxem, who teaches physical
culture had the rooms and fixed them up
for his pupils-wlth padded floor and a
| trapeze and high jumping apparatus and all
that. He fell off In his rent, and SO he had
| to leave the rooms Just as they were, and
It would be lovely for your child to play
there The professor went out for his meals
there's a Chinese restaurant next door
| and IL you like chop
"oh. no. no. MOI I don't think you un-
derstand! l thought woman real estate
| another woman would require. You are
| telling me all these absurd things"
We'll. madam, may ask what do you
want?'
| II wish small housekeeping apartment
in a good neighborhood-light and airy
/! What can you pay?''
"It depends upon what you have to offer.
| the neighborhood and the size OF the place.
II you can get me an exceptionally good
Flat. Did you say nat9"
Yes. II you have pleasant hat We
| I'VE don't touch Hats"
| why. you advertise. Persons seeking
| apartmentse" /"
| Apartments! That is quite q different
| thing. madam. I handle only strictly first
| class places. where the most rigid refer
encss are m REQUIRED REQUIRED and Ill investigated. ), In
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everlastingly disgraced If his wife or his
sister had ventured to such places.
1t Is the same way with a number of the
less prominent music halls. And. as for be-
havior In the streets, many girls from the
American colony think it good Joke to
dress showily and walk slowly along the
boulevard, turning TO stare at all the men
VINO pass them, just to see, for the fun of
it, IL they will have any adventures and
what will be said to them
1t was in Paris that Isadora Duncan the
barefoot dancer, thought of the freaky art
with which she has made name for her
self. She started by dancing barefooted in
friends studios simply to get herself talked
about, and making a profession of 1t me
to her as afterthought. Not long ago
her brother startled Paris by appearing in
the streets clad in the Grecian costume.
sandals, bare legs, tunic and myrtle wreath.
He explained calmly TO his acquaintances
that he was going to reform modern dress
and bring erring men back to the old ra-
tional principles.
One thing must pe said in favor of the
Paris American colony, and that is that SO
long as people have money to spend no &C.
centricity can entail social ostracism, and
that there Is no snobbshness about admit
ting new members into society 50 long as
the applicants have plenty of money. At
the time a certain American girl, then
known as the wife of an American million
aire although the French courts have since
decreed that there never was marriage
and that she had no right TO the name.
was first trying to make a stir in Paris,
some coldness was shown to her. One of
her friends having circulated a story to
the effect that she had a pearl necklace
worth 10000 francs, all doors were imme-
diately opened before her. and she had no
further social difficulties until she was pub
| licly disowned by her supposed husband.
Mrs. CT, who gave herself out as an
author and had an imposing de plume
| engraved on her visiting cards under her
name. 1t was notorious that she had never
written a line in her life, and that she
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Hundreds of stories like the above are re-
sponsible for the belief that most Americans
In Paris are temporarily mad. Some expla. IN
the phenomenon by saying that the exhiIa-
rating atmosphere of Paris is the culprit
Yet meteorologists and scientists affirm that
Paris air Is rather depressing than other
wise. Or again, it is claimed that the con-
trast of plunging into French frivolous life
after practical American life brings about a.
reaction with consequent exaggerated be-
havior And yet. as has been pointed out,
the Americans who appear the maddest are
those who never have the opportunity for
mixing with French life
A third version, and perhaps the most
plausible. casts the burden on a few eccen-
trically inclined individuals whose idiosyn-
crasles have been perpetuated by friends
and small hotels and boarding houses, until
they have pervaded the atmosphere OF
American Paris so that any one visiting in
the colony feels the same results as II he
were suddenly plunged into Bedlam
HOLFORD MORRIS CARTER
VoopyfiSht. 1905, by Curtis Brown. British Rights
Reserved)
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Bewildering metamorphoses are observed
in Young people coming over to study any
branch of art or science, whether painting,
seulpture music. literature or medicine.
What happened not long ago to young
American friend of mine called Ben Is the
story of hundreds of youths who fancy they
are learning to know a foreign country and
widening their professional ability by COM
ing to settle in the American students quar-
ter in Paris, which they innocenuy call the
Latin Quarter. although it is quite out OF
the precincts of the latter and is denlZened
solely by foreigners having nothing to do
with French student life
Ben had exceptionally gifted parts and
was to study music at the Conservatoire.
So his father, his mother, his sister, his
brother and three friends came over to see
him settled They, had heard of the wicked
ness of Paris and they were determined
that Ben should not be exposed to any per-
lis from which paterfamilias and mater
familias and any other KIND of familias
could protect him. They had selected for
his abode a boarding house, the address or
which had been given to them by friend
who had resided there. 1t was in the
Boulevard Montparnasse, the aforemen-
toned American artists quarter, as distin-
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would make their righteous hair stand on
end If even mentioned in America. 1t is
hardly an exaggeration to say that one can
not enter Butler Ball, or the Tour d Argent
restaurant, or Maxim's without meeting
several parties of nice American girls who
know perfectly where they are. but merely
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made living by lending her fat to friends
while she went travelling, and then holding
the said friends responsible for the rent OF
a furnished apartment for the entire term
during which she had rented the unfur-
nished rooms. She would then take for her
self another apartment elsewhere and begin
over again. Once an American official on a
mission to France accepted one OF these
gracious invitations, and had to pay three
years furnished rent in advance before re-
turning home, rather than face threat
ened law suit which might have injured
him automatically on account of the scan
dal Such well authenticated stories on the
chapter of Mrs. c. were the talk of Paris
for years. But because she went every
where and received everybody ana haa
plenty OF money to spend, she continued
until her recent departure from Paris. to be
honored as an inspired authoress and So
cial autocrat.
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Modern improvements.

From the Chicago News.
"Paw." aueried little Ebenezer Corn
shuelxs, what does this paper mean by
pillars OF the church?' /.
''Th' pillars air fer Them rich city foIsxs
wslaf want fer take nap durin' the SER
mon. replied the old man. + reckon
tiIeysn be putin IN hair naattrssses next
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consider that they are seeing the sights of
Paris. Gray haired old ladies are often
with them, or, at all events, their fathers
and brothers. the entire family thinking that
quite the proper Partisan thing Is being
done by going there, whereas any self-re-
specting Frenchman would think himself
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1t was some two months before saw Ben
again. HIS family had returned % America
and he was walking down the Boulevard du
MontparnsSse. Eatless and shod with san
dais, accompanying an English girl artist in
deeoilete dress with a string ~ shells
round her neck. As they walked trey bonn
barded with cream cakes from a paper bag
another couple in scarcely less eccentric at
tire. who. from their parl8ncc. were Araeri-
cans, AID who walked ahead. Alarmed for
Ben's sanity. went up and asked after his
health. His reply was TO shy a cream cake
at my left eye and tell me Paris was tho
greatest place out. and I was a durcr not 10
know how to enjoy myself
He had not yet acquired a single word OF
French; he had not met a Frenchman ex-
cept the hotelkeeper and the waiter and tho
lady who sold tobacco round the corner. but
he said ne had learned an about French life.
and hated the French. and was thankful he
had been saved from their influence by hay
ing Americans and English people ana Aus.
trian barCns and Polish counts TO protect
him
Several months later Ben drew on his
rather for $500 above his allowance and
was compelled to confess to stiU other
debts; and when summoned by telegram he
answered that he must decline TO go be-
cause he could not sacrifice his art. Father.
mother. sister, brother and friends finally
came over TO take possession OF Ben and
bring him home, where he Is now shaking
his head over the wickedness Of Paris and
thanking heaven that he had been able to
Keep straight there and peg away at his
music without being corrupted by those In
famous French. Although he had never
seen the inside of the Conservatoire except
when he Went there with his fond parents
TO be presented to an ilustrious professor
Ben Is now making a fortune from pupils
ana concerts in America on the strength OF
this professors name.
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guished from the Latin Quarter. which is
bounded by the Boulevard St Michel.
The first time | called on Ben's family I
found them at table with an alleged Aus
trian baron. spurious Polish count. a
nondescrfpt Italian artist, and a bright,
ciean-lookinE young Englishman. Ny
friends were awed that they dared not
speak. but presently the Austrian and the
Pole left the table without excusing them
selves. and after picking their teeth behind
their napkins. so Ben's mother found cour-
age to mention that they were all so I'm
pressed by being under the same roof with
real noblemen that they lived I'm constant
terror of making some remark which might
betray their inferority.
ventured 70 ask wherein their lnferiogity
lay. for the father was one of Boston's most
successful business men. and the mother
had published some admirably written mag
azne stories, and. has been stated. the
elder son was fine musician. But IN an
swer TO my question. Ben asked me IL I had
not met any titled persons IN Paris, so that
could not appreciate my own boOrishness.
He said that It had simply opened his eyes
to meet some 'real mobiles" and that II
ever moved In such circles I should learn a
thing or two.
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The work Of constructing q railway
from Valders over the coast mountain
range to tap the Copper river mining DIS
trict and give an all-American route to
Tanana and the Yukon river has been be-
gun Among the scenic attractions OF the
road VIII be a 700-foot waterfall In the
Copper river canyon.
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All Osborne ever asked for was clear
field and an opponent who could make 1t
interesting. This time he has both. The
''go" between Osborne, with Tammany' s
machine behind him, and Jerome, with the
backing of clean public opinion, ought to
be the prettiest political battle New York
has seen for long time.
When Osborne resigned from the district
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NEW 4ORh, OCTOBER -, l3VO
w IHEN Tammany Hall nominated
NA/ James w. Osborne for district at
w torney, to run against William
Travers Jerome, it was paying
higher tribute to Jerome and Jerome's Pc
culiar qualifications than it would have paid
by putting his name on the Tammany
ticket Why?
First, because the failure to nominate Je-
rome was an admission that the organiza-
ton couldn't control his action In office.
Second, because in nominating Osborne
they picked out a man near like Jerome
in vital particulars as it is possible for a
typical southerner to be like a dyed-in-the-
wool New Yorker.
Osborne and Jerome are two game-cocks.
bred for fighting. and ready TO scrap at the
first cluck. Most other candidates, COM
pared with them. are. to carry out the SIM
lie, somewhere in the Plymouth Rock and
Buff Cochin class.
Osborne and Jerome have been the warm
est of friends for years. They came in
contact first in the district attorneys office
under John r. Fellows, and each recog-
nized in the other the metal that he con-
stdered genuine.
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Osborne burst out laughing, and In tie
courtly way he has with him bowed and
said: Il desire to say that this is the mos.
intelligent audience L ever addressed
They had supper about o'clock in tho
morning. and as Osborne passed through
the parlor on the way out bound through a
driving snowstorm for his home on the up
per west side Of New York, the hostess
said: Mr.. Osborne, you haven't told me
how you liked the Christmas tree"
why" said Osborne, ''really-it Is Christ
mas, isn't t? He had sat trying his law
case within fifteen feet of the gaily trim
med and becandled tree for three hours and
didn know 1t was there
Many people criticized Osborne for his
methods in the trial OF the MoIineux case
They said he seemed like a prosecutor
rather than a prosecutor. They little knew
the man. He believed firmly in the truth
OF his case, and he felt 1t TO be his duty to
pursue that conclusion to the end That
there was no malice or bitterness about
his position, however. was made appa rent
the day he made his final argument to the
jury, seeking to convict the accused man.
1t was the most ambitious forensic effort of
his life. His whole soul was in his speech.
When he finished, a close friend pressed
forward to congratulate him on his effort.
Osborne turned his friend away and re-
fused his hand, saying:
Don't congratulate me- Do You reaiize
that my success may mean the prisoners
DOOM"
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There is enormous magnetism about Os-
borne. He can make friend of anybody IL
he sets about 1t. And to the friend made
he is loyal beyond the standard of most
men. In the harsh and exacting school OF
New York he has developed a nippancy
which is somewhat misleading. As a mat
ter of fact, Osborne is the possessor of two
personalities, one cynical distrustful OF
men and things, the other kindly, warm
and almost boyfsh in its sincerity His
standard of honor is high and essentially
personal He has, apparent only to those
who know him well, a strongly defined re-
ligious streak, the outcome OF early train
ing and Of Scotch Presbyterian blood,
In all the hurly-burly of law and politics
and New York storm and stress he has had
one idol-not wealth, for Osborne Is not
built to mahe or save money; not power.
for he has let many chances Of gaining II
pass by. 1t is the mother whom he left on,
the old plantation down In Carolina, and
whose photographs calm old face--usesa to
stand always on the top of his weIi-littered
desk in the district attorneys once.
through all the eleven years OF his combat
i've life there
IS long. sir, as that good woman's eve "A
on me-" he once said looking up .fondfy at
the picture. II have simply got to os
Truthful Jeems.'"
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But the traditions of the colony are none
the less handed down from generation to
generation of passing Americans, who soon
think 1t perfectly natural to do things which
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shghting that point. Jim. Don't leave f.
10 on and expand It. CIinch it, Drive ir
home"
osborne grinned. NO" he said: you're
wrong. l have discovered that what the
American Juryman loves most is the I'M
trammeled exercise of his own mental proc
esses.''
When in charge of a case Osborne knows
nothing but that case. He is concentrat ton
run mad.
A newspaper man In Brooklyn with
Whom Osborne was wont to talk freely over
MS criminal cases, went home at midnight
one Christmas eve, during the progress Of
a case in which Osborne was engaged and
found his wife sitting In corner of the
parior, and Osborne arguing at her. index
hnger saving the air, and sheet of MEM
oranda in his left hand.
Now. on the other hand" he was saying
when his friend entered
on said the lady. 'T thought you d
never come. This mans been arguing this
case at me for three mortal hours. He has
called me your honor he has called me
gentlemen of the jury l could stand that
but when just now he roared prisoner at
the bar at me l decided TO send for the
police"
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PARIS, October 1s, 1905.

WV y HAT becomes of Americans in
Paris? Numbers disappear an
wv nually so as to cause the utmost
concern to their friends at home