Forest City press. (Forest City, Potter County, D.T. [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1907-12-26

tale here. There seemed no hope. But
on advice of specialists the father took
her travelling with a troupe of CHEEKY
c~omIanions; and. suddenly, this last
November. Mr.. Diesel heard the girl
had so improved that they would bring
her back to Paris for a great last test
could she stand Paris?
This is why the embassy function
airy is invited to II very special Ameri-
can Christmas dinncr-that will owe
none of its gayety to Paris charm and
brightness. The girl hates Paris Xix e
unpleasant medicine-she is taking
Paris now as medicine. recovering her
nerve.
In truth, our girls. who come to Paris,
walk-as walked the lady in '.Comus'-
very innocent, amid Il horrid rout, pro-
tected by their innocence and plain
dumb luck against all kinds of beasts,
from wolves in evening clothes to
coarse hotelmen ready to throw them
out into the outrageous Paris streets.
The tragic thing Is the Indifference
of our colony. misled by French dread
OF responsibility and lulling itself with
the NO generous bluffs of "All Amer
leans have money" n Our girls can
take care of th~emselves:' Would you
think they would let "A girl starve to
death-a girl the colony was receiv-
ing at smart teas and evening recep-
tons?
h came ITO write for the maya
zines. At first she had some funds.
dressed well and got in the swim of
GOOD people-where she always stayed.
writer: and she let her money dwindle
TO nothing, hoping that success would
come.
The mirage of the afternoon tea led
her on. She had no need to entertain.
o she lived in one. room of a large.
correct hotel-without BOARDING. one
asked. She might have yielded to the
she tried to supplement the teas by
light home cooking.
Dies From Debility"
Theoretically. she was doing secret
cooking in her hotel room when she
died. The colony is tender in its way:
1t is related. now. how some great
ladies' would pretend not to see when
she slipped cakes and sandwiches into
her pocket at their teas. 1t might be
high-class kleptomania.
So she weakened gently. still we'll
dressed. proud beyond words, dawdling
IN her starving, dilly-dallying in dying:
ana the doctors most politely certified
.depllity'-bu what they said in con-
versation was starvation
American girls can take care of
themselves"
Iakc IIlOIleN,
Inc TWO sayings cause vast misery in
faris. 10th are t~rue-when both are tr,,e
tosether; but 1 would like to know how.
a siri who has not enough money can
take care of herself in Paris!
More girls are coming every year-to
study ana Improve" themselves. The
monthly expense calculation made at
nome is never quite enough. The girl Is
iempte to keep up the great American
repotatioii-and there is something stilI
more suotly tempting to expense and
debt. Listen. ~
L once crossed the Atlantic under false
pretenses-quite unwittingly at FIRST the,
ylelued to the charm. BY some mistake
4 got the reputation of a rich man on the
boat; and /. a man devoid of feminine
weakness and vanity. was so smoothed
down and tickled by the novel friendli-
ness of every one-how they deferred to
me. how they delighted in my converse.
tion-that 1 weakly let them keep 1t un.
and lived nine days on the false rep,,ta,
ton OF a wealthy a
Now Ii a strong-minded philosopher can
be so affected what shall we think OF a
girl?
DO you appreciate the novel change OF