The citizen-Republican. (Scotland, Bon Homme County, S.D.) 1???-19??, 1907-10-17

speaking glrl 1aIl SICK In Paris and
she need but notify Holy Trinity lodge.
NOW, o don't know Mrs. whitney
Hon II you imagine she would not have
some prompt answer to the dispensary.
What, my girls be forced to traverse
half Paris to beg for a bottle Of pare
goric?' she exclaimed. and within thir-
ty days the Young Wo.nen's Christian
association was endowed with a visit
ing doctor n the Students. hostel set
up one of the best equipped dispenl
Isaries In all Paris. Indeed, Mrs. Quinn
by, Of Frank Leslie's. who Is some
thing OF an expert on those matters.
declares there Is not a smarter 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 h Is
not asked to pay her board
In a word. the competition to fill up
these iower-decked. white spread cases
with their bright new thermometers.
barometers, gasometers. Is 30 keen that
they have actually been known to take
In a dropping English governess after
she had attempted suicide.
By this time the rivalry was open
and declared.
Mrs. Hon had bought outright the
building of h Students hostel. She
could alter 1t at Will.
Il wan the parents OF my girls to
know they can get all the advantages
of Paris within the four walls" she Is
reported as saying; and part OF a third
floor wal was torn put to make the
north light of a vast atelier for draw
tation daily criticise girls work. as in
h Academies. Models are gratis. Ev-
erything is gratis.
So it stood at the close of spring;
but I hear that with autumn all the
four American girls clubs-not for
eratfjoc = thu old oct a 11tclAN h,,t clS-t.xr..
different American institute of Mrs.
Smedley-will be giving g%ratuitous vo-
cal and instrumental music lessons.
say gratuitous, but I ought to say
inclusive. In al these girls clubs,
board and lodging, including washing,
begins at SIS per week: and. as washing
Is included. so are the afternoon teas,
the @~dispensaries, the drawing and
painting ateliers, the music lessons and
the use of bathtubs.
Do not sneer at this last detail. Learn
that, elsewhere in all Paris, bathtubs
who wants to keep clean must learn to
take a bath in her wash basin-or go
out with a ~handsatchel to a public
b~athhouse.
Five dollars per week for everything
In Paris! Here we strike the Question
of a student-girls expenses.
1 will tell you how a girl kept house
during two years. cu%ltivating her voice
and taking stage lessons. She Is now
somebody in American operette.
She had Two scarcely-furnished rooms
and kitchen for $50 per year. Smarten-
ing them up with odds and ends, she
rented out one room to a girl friend for
S. per Month So she was almost rent
free.
Her expenses for provisions, which
she cooked herself, with her coal and
petroleum, did not exceed 81 or So per
week. She did her own washing In the
kitchen. But she had no leisure. no
%daintiness, no smart teas, no CHEEKY
companions r~eady-found; she would
have been better off in a boarding
house.
But Paris boarding houses are not
cheap. even when u~nattractive. know
Of two that will give board and lodging