Missouri Valley times. [volume] (Missouri Valley, Iowa) 1874-1931, 1907-10-17
Wl4ATH COSTS GIRL
FROM AMERICA TO LIVE
IN PARIS WITHOUT DANGER

tag. over her we'll sisters. that she is
not asked to pay her board.
IN II word. the competition to fill up
tiiese flower-decked. White spread cases
with their bright new thermometers
narometers. gasometers, is so keen that
.hey nave actually been known to take
III i dropping English goyerness after
she had attempted suicide.
by this time the rivalry was omen
ard declared.
Mrs. Hoff had bought outright the
building of the Students hostel. she
could alter it at will.
~ want 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 g third
floor wall was torn out to make the
NORTH light OF a vast atelier for draw
ing and painting. Here artists of repu-
tdtlol daily criticise girls work. as in
the Academies. Models are gratis. Ey-
erything is gratis.
50 il stood at the close of sprine.
but [ hear that with autumn ain the
foEr American girls clubs-not for
Getting the old established. but slightly
different American institute of Mrs
Smedley-wil be giving gratuitous vo-
cal and Instrumental music lessons.
! say giTltuitous. but l ought to saw
inclusive. In al these girls clubs
board and lodging, including washing,
peslnS NJ So per week. and. as washing
is Included. so are the afternoon teas
the dlspcnsaries. the drawing and
painting a~teiiers, the music lessons and
the use of bathtubs.
DO not sneer at this last detail. Learn
that, elsewhere in all Paris. bathtubs
ore exclusive, extra. A girl student
Who wants to keep clean must learn to
take a bath in her wash basin-or go
out with IL h~andsatchel to u public
b~athhouSe.
rive dollars per week for everything
i'll Paris. Here we strike the question
OF a student-giIl's expenses.
will tell you how a girl kept house
during two years. cultivating her voice
and taking stage lessons. She is now
somebody i'll American operctte.
She had two scarcely-furnislied rooms
and Kitchen for $50 per year. Smarten-
ing them mp with odds and ends. she
rented out Que room to Il girl friend for
So per month. So she was almost rent
free.
Her expenses for provisions. which
sh. cooked herself, with her coal and
petroleum. did not exceed 81 or 81 per
week. She did her own washing in the
kitchen. But she had no leisure. no
daintiness, no smart teas, no CHEEKY
companions :~eady-found: she would
have been better off in a boarding
house.
fut lafiS DDaTulflS houses are not
cheap. even when unattractive. know
of two hat will give board and lodging
for 81 a day. They are scarcely places
for Il pretty American girl. When you
get to s francs n day-S1 .60-but, there,
o see the price is up-and You have
not much for Your money.
have, indeed. visited II very correct
and not disagreeable boiled beef pen
sion in the st. Sulpice quarter, fit
enough for our girls and much patron
lied by knowing tourists, whose prices
are slightly in excess of 81 per lay;
but first-course soup and second-coulse
soup meat goes against the American
stomach, which raves other vegetables
taan potatoes and hashed spinach.
You see, therefore, where the girls
clubs come in.
Where the cheap pension offers n
| measioy box of a room. soilel carpet.
, lickety wooden bed. and mouidy eur
tains. the girls' clubs. brand new. en-
tice the girl with Amy, spacious rooms.
clear-tinted wallis. brass bedsteads.
slnart writing desks, big closets, bou-
DOR bureaus, lace curtains. screens.
chaises-lounges, waste-paper baskets.
there We're anything like this in Paris
for men at 50 per. h present writer's
would quit keeping house in Neuilly,
o see. now, how an American girl
can study in Paris without danger.
Who aid anything of danger.
L did not. do, now. Outside of the
girls clubs there is danger for our girls
in Paris.