The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1907-10-19

up-to-date locality.
The fourth of these great concerns
is Holy Trinity Lodge, in the Rue Pier
re Nicole, beyond the Pantheon
again the Latin Quarter-conducted by
the Holy Trinity (Episcopa1ian)
church of the Avenue de rAlma.
The Rev. DR.. Morgan, cousin of the
financier, years ago gave up banking
for the priesthood, and as Mrs. Reid
and Mrs. Hoff dominate their respec-
tive girls clubs, so Dr. Morgan DOM
mates his church and lambfold. In
deed, the latter is called parish house
and has something Of conventual
touch. Recently they rented from
the French republic a confscated
shady garden that, until the nuns ex-
pulsion, had belonged to the Carmel
ties of the Rue Valde-Grace. In one
corner, beneath lordly trees, is a mys-
FERROUS stone trap. 1t gives entrance
by shivery winding stairs, down down
into the earth, to an ancient under
ground chapel, dating from the time
of st. Denis When the girls have fill
ed their visitors with cake and tea,
they will light candles and take you
down to dream of bygone things.
DIETETIC REPARTEE.
If there seems much cake and tea,
remember it is free. When the Rue de
Chevreuse began giving hot mullins,
the Due de Turin replied with waffles.
The parish house went them one
better with a transcendental species OF
jam-puffs. And the Students Hotel
took up the gauntlet by offering COCO
anut layer cake from Margarets.
Next Holy Trinity Lodge astonished
them all by opening a dispensary with
trained nurses. Let any English
speaking girl fall sick in Paris-ano
she need but notify Holy Trinity
Lodge.
Now, you do not know Mrs. Whit
ney Hoff If you imagine she would not
have some prompt answer to the dis
pensary.
What, my girss be forced to ira
verse half Paris to beg for a bottle
of paregoric?" she exclaimed. And
within thirty days the Young Women's
Christian Association was endowed
with a visiting doctor and the Stu
dents Hotel set up one of the best
equipped dispensaries in all Paris. In
deed, Mrs. Quimby, of Frank Leslie's,
who is something of an expert on these
matters, declares there is not smart
er little hospital even in New York.
Mrs. Reid was naturally bound to
follow; so that now a sick English
speaking girl in Paris has this advan-
tage over her well sisters, that she is
not asked to pay her board.
HOSPITAL COMPETITION.
In a word, the competition to fill up
those fiower-decked white spread cas-
es, with their bright new thermome-
tiers, barometers, gasometers, is so
keen that they have actually been
known to take in a dropping English
governess after she had attempted sui
eide!
By this time the rivalry was open
and declared.
Mrs. Hoff had bought outright the
building of the Students Hostel. She
could alter it at will.
81 want the parents of my girls to
know they can get ali the advantages
of Paris within the four walls" she is
reported as saying; and part of Q
third-foor wall was torn out to make
the north light Of a vast atelier FOE
drawing and painting. Here artists OF
reputation daily criticise girls work,
as in the academies. Models, etc, are
gratis. Everything is gratis.
So it stood at the close of the spring;
but I hear that, with the autumn, all
the four American girls clubs-not
forgetting the old-established but
slightly different American institute
of Mrs. Smedley-will be giving gra-
tuitous vocal and instrumental music
lessons.
ALL FOR IS PER WEEK.
say gratuitous, but l ought to say
inclusive. In all these girls clubs
board and lodging, including washing,
begins at IS per week; and as wash
ing is included, so are the afternoon
teas, the dispensaries, the drawing and
painting ateliers, the music lessons
and the use of bath tubs.
Do not sneer at this last detail
Learn that elsewhere, in all Paris,
bath tubs are exclusive, extra. A girl
student who wants to keep clean must
learn to take a bath in her wash bas-