The daily morning journal and courier., 1907-09-02
CLUBS IN PARIS
 FOR AMERICAN GIRLS Three Where Students May Live Inexpensively
 and Homelike. REQUIREMENTS SIMPLE Mrs. Whitelaw Reid and Mrs. Whitney Hoff.
 Interested.
REQUIREMENTS SIMPLE

ble for them to be, and at rates
 which compare favorably with pension
 rates.
 1 One of the oldest of these clubs,
 says Leslie's Weekly, and the only one
 now in Paris which is strictly nation
 al, is the American Girls Club in
 Paris which was established by Mrs. Whitelaw Reid, who pays the rent of
 the house and also the expenses of the
 tea room, It, as are also the others, is
 otherwise supporting This home
 was at first intended only for the ac- l commodation of art students, as it is
 in the neighborhood of the studios and
 art schools of the Latin quarter, but
 within recent years students of music and also those wishing to study French have ben admitted.
 The requirements for entering any of these clubs are simple. One must give l good references, be unmarried, and under 40 The prices range from 25 to ] 30 francs a week. Candles, fire in room and laundry are extra. Twenty-Five dollars in France will so about as far
 as $40 in America, so one need not feel hthat she is an object of charity in any way.
 The Students Hotel, the gift of Mrs
 Whitney Hoff, an American, is one of the most recent of these clubs, and it is also the most elaborate.
 Realizing the need of suitable lodg- 1 ing place for girl students who were strangers in Paris Mrs Hotf looked
 for long time for the right kind of ! place in the right location. A choice 1 finally fell upon an old hotel, former l ly a convent, In the Boulevard St. Michel in the very heart of the Latin 1 Quarter.
 l A few steps from the hotel are the Luxembourg and the Beaux Arts. 1 Across the Luxembourg gardens are the Julian, Colarossi and Delacluse i academies of painting and sculpture. 1 Despite the renovations which 1t was f necessary to make the old building retains an atmosphere of ancient days i especially in the quaint old garden at the back, with it's wells and polished eurbs.
 The hotel is as much like the Mar tha Washington Hotel New York, on a small scale as anything that can be thought of, There are large recep- tion rooms for visitors and small re- : 5ception rooms for the guests and their friends.
 There is an excellent library, com prsing both English and French books; large diningroom which may be converted into a huge lecture room
 by opening a series of doors into the reception room and the library The girls rooms are furnished each in i different color with carpet, divan and sofa pillows to match the wall paper, and altogether the place is exception- ally clean and attractive in every way
 By paying the two francs initiation fee any English speaking girl in Par is may avail herself of the privileges of the hotel-that is, the privileges of l the library and reading room, the lcafe and the baths, which mean SO much in Paris, where the native Frenchmen bathe in what resembles a large dishpan, and the two francs a i year or season admits also to the tea room accommodations and the fre- auent concerts, lectures and other so- lclal functions of the club.
 Frequent lectures on music and art are given and woman teacher of French is at the disposal of all wish | ing to avail themselves of lessons at
 home, and in the diningroom there is 1 a table set apart at which French on- l ly is spoken.
 l Not the least attractive feature of
 this new hotel is an infirmary and
 very up to date surgical ward pre- i sided over by a trained nurse and on three days each week visited by the I best physicians in Paris, who give not only advice but also treatment at i greatly reduced rates for the benefit
 of the students.
 In the gardens at the back are ta- 1 bles, and there is also an inclosed tea room. Over the tea room is large | studio, which is a splendid feature and a great advantage for those who can- not afford to hire working studio
 for their exclusive use. The rates of 1 the hotel, including studio privileges i for resident students range from twenty-five to forty francs week.
 Another club due to American initia-
 tive is the Holy Trinity Lodge in the Rue Pierre-Nieole. Supported by the congregation of Holy Trinity church i in the Avenue de lAlma and St.
 Luke's Chapel, Rue de la Grande Chaumiere, the lodge serves in the
 heart of the Montparnasse art stud ents' quarter as a parish house for English speaking women and it is a focus of helpfulness, both moral and
 physical.
 IA new and attractive feature in con- nection with the lodge is it's garden, a l hundred yards from the building. It is little oasis of verdure such as dwell- CTS in Paris keenly appreciate.
 Holy Trinity also provides studio for the students, and In connection with the home is tiny hospital which 1 has many times proved a boon to students disabled by injury or tempor- ary illness, who would otherwise be
 sent to the large and too often i'll kept l hospitals of the French city.
 Other features of the Holy Trinity work are an information bureau, where addresses of pensions, teachers, rooms, to let, etc, are posted, circu- lating library, an educational depart ment with classes in French and Ital- ian and lectures on French literature and history, an afternoon painting 1 club, a choral club and a musical and
 social reunion once week.