Los Angeles herald., 1906-01-21

monlal market. Indeed, this fact mas
been so often verified of late that anx
ious mothers are becoming fearfully aware of it.
As New York society woman said recently to
an intimate friend over the four o'clock teacupS
Let Madane study in Paris-Neverl Florence
or London, if she pleases, but not Paris. Why
she would simply throw her life away"
Her friend looked shocked, so the mother has-
tened to add, "Oh, you misunderstood my mean
ing. / intended nothing more than that she
would be sure to make imprudent marriage
There is James B, my nephew, who went over
to study to be a sculptor. nice boy, quiet,
hard-working, never had any time for girls. And
to-day comes the news that he is engaged to a
French model A French model" And the two
groaned in unison.
"What do you suppose makes them do such
things there?" her friend asked helplessly.
Because they lot of children, those Paris
students exclaimed the irate aunt. 'They
would not recognize responsibility if they met
one"
Her remarks, though heated, are In the main
true. The students at the Beaux Arts and the
dwellers in the studios that line the Rue de
Notre Dame des Champs and the Rue Vaur
garde work while they work and play while they
play, with all the enthusiasm of children. The
future is place of possibilities 30 rose-colored
as to preclude care, and the present to be en-
joyed to the full. Whether they come on schol-
arships on home allowances or on hardly earned
to the insouciant spell of the Latin Quarter
And of what consequence the veriest tyro is in
his own and other peoples eyes! In his velvet
coat with the wide ends of black silk tie
streaming from his throat, and his face pictur
esquely shadowed by the broad brim of his felt
hat, how he swaggers along the boulevards and
overlords the restaurant and shopkeepers Of the
quarterl "Ah, monsieur is artist" these say
respectfully, an excuse for any antic extrava
gance any childish folly. To them he is the
momentary expression of the spirit of art that
for hundreds of years has pervaded the same stu
dos the streets. Many before him have
gone out from the quarter to high place on the
worlds annals of fame, and to him, in turn, may
descend the mantles of their success
The artist who copies the old masters in the
galleries, sketches along the Seine or in the
Luxembourg Gardens meets with no indignties
The group around him, if he works WELL may
augment itself into crowd, but it remains DO
litey attentive. 1t is no matter of wonder to
them that strangers should come to COPY the
beauties of their beloved city.
ITS DIFFERENT ELSEWHERE.
1t is not so elsewhere, and this girl student
at the Julian Academy found when emboldened
by her Paris experiences, she went to England
alone on fortnights sketching trip. "I started
to make sketch at Hampton Court" she com
planned, "and unfortunately had hit upon a bank
holiday, so there was crowd, crowd of Doors!
Oh, 1t was odlouSl And she made little grim
ace over the recollection. There is nothing ike
dear Paris. 1t is the paradise of art students"
Yet it is not so much Paris that is the paradise
for all students, as that portion of it that goea
by the name of the Latin Quarter. Even the
man or girl who is not devotee of pictorial art
but who studies at the Conservatory or attends
the lectures of the Sorbonne, if wise, lodges with
In its historic boundaries. For there are other
PARTS OF the citythe newer sections given over
to expatriated American mionares. and the old
faubourgs sacred to the palaces of the mobility
where life is as formal and as exactinQ In its
demands in any of the Continental capitas
The student may occasionally stray into these
salons but he always returns with sigh of relief
to the freedom and simplicity of the Latin Quar-
ter.
Life in the Latin Quarter, indeed resolves II.
self into marvellous simplicity. There noyertv
is not thing to be ashamed of. and Uenius 4.
the only thing worth envying This breeds a
scom OF mere appearance, l once went to HINT
up studio apartment that had heard was 10
be Sub-let and found it Transformed into a re.',
lar buanderie or laundry. The square studio was
surrounded by a gallery and from its raiIings
hung every variety of wet garment. / must con-
fess that, as a man and novice in the student
deeorum. ] was embarrassed. The two young