Kingsbury County independent. (DeSmet, Kingsbury County, S.D.) 1894-1929, 1907-10-18
WHATH COSTS GIRL
FROM AMERICA TO LIVE
MPARLS WITHOUT DANGER
Sept. 2S.-An American girl can

Paris, Sept. 2S.-An American girl car
study In Paris without danger
The perfected means exist. -Four
great concerns called American Girls
clubs. will take the lamb-house her,
feed her, tend her, watch her, lock her
up at 10 p. m., nurse her when SICK. en-
liven her with teas, cultivate her voice,
teach her TO draw and keep her fresh
and sweet and neat in almost too dam
ty surroundings.
1t is done for a lump weekly sum SO
mCderate-for what is given-that there
must be sustaining wealth behind 1t.
why, the every afternoon high teas
alone would dissipate the profits of a
business enterprise!
The old established Girls club Of the
Rue de Chevrouse has always been sus-
tanned by Mrs. Whitelaw Reid. It's
present managress. Miss Moffett, a de-
Iightful maiden lady from New Eng
land, is her sole representative. When
the garden is photographed she sends
a copy to Mrs. Reid-"Would Mrs.
Reid like this?'-"Mrs. Reid would not
approve Of that" The Rue de Chev-
rouse is a perfect realization of Mrs.
Reds a
Once it was a great hotel. You see
how two wings form a court. Beneath
old trees. behind. two stone pillars and
a high iron grille give entrance to an
OLD world garden. Here the lambs
sport of afternoons to the perfume of
buttered toast. samovar tea. wafhes,
LAYER cake. what do | know? Tea
strong enough to make them go out
lucy!
Mrs. Whitney Hoff, daughter of the
late Detroit millionaire and wife of a
Standard Oil magnate in Paris, domi-
mates in the same way both Young
Women'S Christian association of the
Rue de Turin and the Students Hostel
Of the Boulevard st. Michel. Both the
rue de Cheyrouse and Boulevard st.
Michel are IN the Latin quarter, but the
Rue de Turin ear count as Montmartre,
the graduation quarter of art %tuden
become painters, a very up-to-date To-
cality.
The fourth OF these great concerns Is
Holy Trinity lodge, in the Rue Pierre
Nicoie, beyond the Pantheon, again the
Latin quarter, conducted by the Holy
Trinity (~Episcopalian) church Of the
Avenue dc PAlma.
The Rev. DR.. Morgan, cousin OF the
fnancter, years ago gave up banking
for the priesthood, and as Mrs. Reid
and Mrs. Hoff dominate their respective
girls clubs, so DR.. Morgan dominates
his church and lambfold. Indeed, the
latter is called a parish house and has
something of a c~onventual touch. Re
Gently they rented from the French re-
public a Confiscated shady garden that.
until the nuns expulsion, had belonged
TO the Carmelites of the Rue VALDEZ
Grace. In one corner, beneath lordly
trees, is a mysterious stone trap. 1t
gives entrance by shivery winding
stairs down, down into the earth TO an
ancient underground chapel datingfrom
he time OF st. Denis. When the girls
have filed their visitors with cake and
tea they will light candles n take
you down to dream of bygone things.
If there seems much cake and tea
remember it is free. When the Rue de
|heVrouse began giving hot mullins the
Rue de Turin replied with waffles.
The parish house went them one bet
;er with a transCendental species Of
lam puffs. And the Students hostel
cook up the gauntlet by offering cocoa
aut layer cake from Margaret's.
Next Holy Trinity lodge astonished
hem All by opening a ~dispensary with
trained nurses. Let any English