The Bon Homme County independent. [volume] (Tabor, S.D.) 1904-1913, 1907-10-17

speaking girl fall sick in Paris and
n need but notify Holy Trinity lodge.
Now, you don't know Mrs. Whitney
Hon If you imagine she would o 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 Women's Christian
association was endowed with a visit
Ing doctor and the Students hostel set
up n of the best equipped dispen-
saries 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 las this advan-
tage over her well sisters. that she is
not asked to pay her board.
In a word, the competition to fill up
these fiower-decked. white spread cases
with their bright new thermometers,
barometers, gasometers, is so 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. Hoff had bought outright the
building of the Students hostel. She
could alter 1t at will.
Il want the parents of my girls to
know they a get all the advantages
of Paris within the four walls" she is
reported as saying; and part Of a third
floor wall was torn out to make the
north light OF a vast atelier for draw
ing and painting. Here artists of repu-
tation daily criticise girls work. as in
the Academies. Models are gratis. Ev-
erything is gratis.
SO it stood at the close of spring;
hNNf II h~na chat Ia "
four American girls clubs-not for
getting the old established. but slightly
different American institute Of Mrs.
S~medley-will be giving gratuitous yo-
cal and instrumental music lessons.
l say gratuitous, but I ought to say
inclusive. In al these girls clubs,
board and lodging, including washing
begins at So 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
are exclusive, extra. A girl student
who wants to keep clean must learn to
take a bath in her wash basinAor 60
out with a handsatchel to a public
bathhouse.
Five dollars per week for everything
in Paris! Here we strike the question
of a student-girl's expenses.
1 will tell o how a girl kept house
during two years. ~cultivating her voice
and taking stage lessons. She is now
in American operette.
She had two scarcely furnished rooms
and kitchen for $50 per year. Smarten-
ing them up with odds and ends, she
out one room to a girl friend for
IS per month. So she was almost rent
free.
Her expenses for provisions, which
she cooked herself, with her coal and
did not exceed 81 or So per
week. She did her own washing in the
kitchen. But she had no leisure, no
nc smart teas. no CHEEKY
ready-found; she would |
been better off in a boarding
house.
But Paris boarding houses are not
cheap, ever when unattractive. I know
Of W that will give board and lodging