Forest City press. (Forest City, Potter County, D.T. [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1907-12-26
AMERICAN GIRLS IN PARIS. .
SURROUNDED BY DANGERS.
WILL HA We PRIVATE CLUBS
Wolves in Evening Clothes and Coarse Hotelnen Constantly
Annoy Them. So Now Rich Americans Are Going to Pro-
vide Girls Clubs--How One Girl Was Crazed by
tho Terrors of Poverty and Voices Behind
Her on the Streets.

American girls in Paris have met
aeatii. been done to death. or left to
die in mystery and Indifference; but
Just rs most of life's tragedies remain
unknown. so there are more who stop
at the supreme sacrifice of life-but
listen to u Christmas souvenir of the
American embassy.
The girl had always received monthly
letters from her father addressed in
care of the embassy. Nobody knew
her, she just came aud got them. Now
that she was anxious, she made the
acquaintance of Mr.. Biesel. and she
was so nicely dressed. delicate and re-
served. that the experienced permanent
functionary only noticed after several
visits-one wet day last mid-December
that the sole of her left shoe was SO
worn through that her bare foot was
on the ground!
d YOU need money badly" he
asked; and she went to pieces. They
will turn me out of the boarding
house, she gasped. II can't pay my
laundry. and / have no car fares: and
/ am afraid of Paris: there are bad
men who walk bahind 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.. Diesel.
father of n family. quickly handed her
Sc he found in his pockets and said: Il
Will write Il letter to your boarding
house,
UnhapDily, our government makes no
provision for writing such letters con-
vincingly. The girl returned worse
frightened. Tkey would put her out
because the letter did not guarantee the
payment. but when she had given up
all the Sc. they gave her u little room
without board for q week,
Daily the embassy functionary doled
her out enough to live on, but she came
to nave Il hunted look.
She was the most beautiful girl /
ever saw" tells Mr.. Diesel. but at
Christmas time I had to go to England.
and the truth is. ! forgot hertz
As she had come for aid and comfort
to him daily, you will understand how
he distraught girl wanted Mr.. Diesel
and would not believe he was not there.
She was agitated. Some one led her
synpatlletically down stairs-which &C.
CURED three different days, and when,
the last. she r%esolutely sat upon the
staircase waiting. the ignorant ianito,.
brought Il policeman. a.
The police commissary-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,
MIR. Diesel 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. ave you done with my
daughter? My God, help me find my
daughter"
1t was the mining engineer. Delirious
from typhoid in u hotel, he had not
sent the remittance of one month, and
after a few frantic appeals, the girls
letters had Stopped. coming to nm.
Had she got his subsequent letters?
They looked. No. all We're waiting for
her.
Quick tc the prefecture of police.
They started the great machine work
Ing. When the great machine works
they find any n you van in Paris.
They found the girl at Sainte-Anne's.
She was good and crazy now. Mania
OF persecution read her ticket. Fear
OF Paris. Fear of men who speak to
girls upoD the street."
Last June l would have ended the