Kingsbury County independent. (DeSmet, Kingsbury County, S.D.) 1894-1929, 1907-12-27
AMERICAN GIRLS IN PARIS,
SURROUNDED BY DANGERS,
WILL HA We PRIVATE CLUBS
Wolves in Evening Clothes and Coarse Hotelmen CONSTANT,
Annoy Them, So Now Rich Americans Are Going to Pro-
vide Girls Ciubs---How One Girl Was Crazed by
the Terrors Of Poverty and Voices Behind
Her on the Streets.

American girls in Paris have met
feath, peer done to death, or left 10
lie in mystery and indifference; but
Just as most of life's tragedies remain
unknown, 50 there are more who stop
at the supreme sacrifice of life-but
listen to a Christmas souvenir OF the
American embassy.
The girl had always received monthly
.etters from her father addressed IN
care of the embassy. Nobody knew
her; she just came and got them. Now
that she was anxious, she made the
acquaintance of Mr.. Biesel, n she
was so nicely dressed, delicate and re-
served, that the experienced permanent
functionary only noticed after several
visits-one wet day last mid-DecemDer
that the sole of her left shoe was so
worn through that her bare foot was
on the ground!
DO you need money badly he
asked: and she went to pieces. They
will turf me out of the boarding
house, she gasped. Il can't pay my
laundry; and l have no car fares; and
/ am afraid of Paris; there are bad
men who walk behind girls and say
things! Father Is a mining engineer
out west; he let me come to cultivate
my voice; he always sent the check,
and now
Now, our government makes no pro-
vision for such cases, but Mr.. Biesel,
father of a family. quickly handed her
Sc he found In his pockets and said: Il
will write a letter to your boarding
house"
Unhappily, our government makes no
provision for writing such letters con-
vincingIy. The girl returned worse
frightened. They would put her out
because the letter did not guarantee the
payment. but when she had given up
all the SO, they gave her a little Dom
without board for Il week.
Daily the embassy functionary doled
her out enough to live on, but she came
to a a hunted look.
She was the most beautiful girl i
ever saw" tells Mr.. Diesel, but at
Christmas time 1 had to go to England,
and the truth is, / forgot herr"
As she had come for aid and comfort
to him daily, you will understand how
the distraught girl wanted Mr.. Biesel
and would not believe he was not there.
She was agitated. Some one led her
sympathetically down stairs-which oc-
Cured three different days. and when.
the last, she resolutely sat upon the
staircase waiting, the ignorant janitor
brought a policeman.
The police co~mmissary-to avoid re-
sponsibility. the leading Paris motive
in all things-sent her to Sainte-
Anne's. the great public asylum, for
examination. The ~janitor told the en-
bassy nothing.
Arrival Of Father.
When Christmas passed, therefore
and the months rolled around to April
Mr.. Biesel was surprised and shocked
to receive an excited man of obvious
wealth and force from western Amer
lea at once threatening and implor-
ing:
What have you done with m,
daughter? My God. help me find my
daughter!"
1t was the mining engineer. DeIiriou.
from typhoid In a hotel. he had not
sent the remittance OF one month, and
after a few frantic appeals. the girls
letters had stopped coming to am
Had she got his subsequent letters.
They looked. No. all were waiting FOL
her.
Quick to the prefecture OF police
They started the great machine work,
ing. When the great machine work,
they find any n you want In Paris
They found the girl at Sa~inte-Anne's
She was good and crazy now. Mani;
Of persecution" read her ticket. "Feal
of Paris. Fear OF men who speak I,
girls upon the street"
Last June l would have ended tn
ale here. There seemed no hope. Blu
on advice of specialists the father too
her travelling with a troupe of cheer,
companions; and. suddenly, this las
November, Mr.. Diesel heard the giI
had 20 improved that they would brin
her back to Prris for a great last test
could she stand Parisc
This Is why the embassy function
airy is invited to q very special Ameri
can Chrtstmas dinncr--that will ow
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