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Mrs. Grace Whitney F4off and Her American Girls in Paris

tective influence Of the Rue de Turin
goes far beyond the girls who have their
board and lodging there. They throng to
classes in French stenography-a well
paid profession when joined to English:
to our evening French classes, lectures
on French literature, health and hygiene
talks and talks to self-supporting women.
Informal social groups come together.
There are membership banauets. secre-
tarieS' at homes, daily afternoon teas
and receptions to new members twice a
month at the Sale HCche.'
l must break on the disconcerting mod
esty of Mrs. Hoff to explain that the
Sale Hoche is a series of vast and beau
tiful parlors on an aristocratic avenue,
close to the Arc de Triomphe. 1t Is rent
ed for marriages, dances and receptions
by the best known. Parisians. A girl in
vited to concert, social evening ana
collation. at the Sale Hoche may well
keep up her pride. and twice month
Mrs. Hoff pays rent, light, heat, decora-
tion. talent-everything.
80 1t grew to Tie lunch and rest rooms
OF A Rue Cambon," the gentle voice con-
tinued In didactic timidity.
All unintrOduced, / once stumbled into
this true refuge for scared girls. just OF
the bewildering wicked boulevard. From
the dazzle you dive into the dim mystery
of an old-time porte-cochere to wide
and peaceful courtyard. where white
door opens, and you find that you are
home.
Open-grate fires and fairy lamps: small
parlors, communicating; tinkling spoons
and teacups; subdued chatter-a girls
nest.
They lunch from 80 to 100 girls per
day. said Mrs. Hoff. ''The clientele Is al
ways changing. They also served 12,OO
teas and suppers last year. All American
or English? Perhaps half are Swedes,
Norwegian, Danes, French, Poles, Aus
trians, Germans Roumanians.
ANY girl may Gomez" / said.
eff they know the address. Often they
Just drop in to reSt-some other girl has
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talk to him. tear OFF a sad. foolish little
song. receive advice, praise or discourage
ment, whichever may be best for Them.
says Mrs. Hoff in an awed voice. She
takes 1t all enormously to heart.
x*
So much that she has founded scholar
ships In each of the three sections OF the
union. musical. art and collegiate. They
permit the winners to live in the hostel
and practically meet all their expenses.
Applications are passed on by q scholar
ship committee. after filling of blanks
as to purpose in life, health. private,
means, previous work. attainments and
the recommendations Of schools and indi-
viduals.
"They must be real students. preparing
for self-support," Mrs. Hoff told me. And
I have just endowed a fund for the an
nual purchase of an art object done by q
woman member to be called the Grace
Whitney Hoff fund of the International
Art Union. The purchases are TO be
placed in various museums throughout
America and Great Britain. Doubtless
the first gift from the fund. I'm 1909. will
go to the Detroit Art Museum"
Protection for unattached American
girls in Paris!
have known one to lsEAbducted in an
automobile and trudge fifty miles back to
Paris from the first stop. epenniless. Qt
was the Rue de Turin that swiftly took
her in) / have known one to go crazy
while awaiting letters and to be trans
ported to the Ste. Anne city asylum
from the very vestibule of our embassy!
So told MRS. Hoff. on departing. how
a strong successful young American girl
writer diving in a fashionable pension. to
be close to matter, but a member of the
union) confessed I'm my hearing:
Il now sleep TRANQUILITY in Paris. feel
invisible protecting arms"
STERLING HELLO.
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what they have done," she says. "Once
a year they have their exhibition in the
large studio of the hostel. and once a
year in the fashionable center of Paris. In
directed by known masters. In the con-
ference hall the girls benefit by illus
trated lectures
Rather Lecturers like Andre Michel,
curat tor-in-chief of the paintings of the
Louvre. and Henri Lemonnier, so long
protesting the history of art at the
Beaux-Arts and since called to that chair
in the Sorbonne.
It may be an easy gesture to write out
checks; but it takes positive genius for
detail plus devotion to plan and realize q
system like this. Even its large and COM
petent salaried staff had to be created
and whipped into shape. Genius for de-
tail? think it was such trait-by way
OF f1y-wheel or anchor, as you please-for
Mrs. Hoff to call Prof Baker Harvard
professor of the Sorbonne) and Prof. AL
den Iceland Stanford) to lecture her girls
lest they become too French!
Musical girls who have sufficiently pre-
pared themselves appear In professional
concerts before critical audiences. vol
unteered Mrs. Hoff, demurely. She knows
perfectly well the utter value of such
chances to show amid the terrible rival
ries Of Paris-forcing house of innumer-
able talents. The unconscious growth OF
one half innocently chokes the other, as
in tropical jungle.
"They hear masters of music in their
different lines
I must translate. Mrs. Hof produces
before her girls of the Students Union
not the hostel only-such high-priced spe-
cialists as Raoul Pugno, (perhaps the
greatest pianist after Paderewski).
Georges Enesco astonishing Roumanian.
called the modern PaganinD. Chaminade
and Massenet himself. The illustrious
Massenet presides at the piano in May
for an ILLUSTRATION of his works by
grand opera artistes.
The girls can go up to Massenet and
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you are in Paris?
Are you assured that Paris only OF
fers you the advantages that ought to Sc
cure your support?
Have you health and means to keep
you in Paris?'
This great American lady of the Ave-
nue. du Bois de Boulogne actually re-
ceives, daily, unknown, struggling Eng
disappearing girls newly arrived. strand
ed. or merely perplexed in Paris
It is modern faryland; private hotel
bull; into Louis XIV pile OF white sand
stone six sumptuous stories nigh. Be
yond carved oak. chiseled bronze and
marble pillars, / had passed through
white galleries paneled In Louis XIV
white and red brocaded SILK; over BOX,
hara rugs In tones OF red; past carved
Gothic seats, renaissance silver chests.
cabinets of Sevres. Vienna, SAKE ana
Delf into a jewel of petit salon uphoi-
stored in Beauvais tapestry whose sun-
dued tints melt into sage Drocaueo BIN
wall hangings.
"Are there many girls who ought not
to be in Paris?" I asked.
MANY. Perhaps the greatest work that
l am doing is to send girls home. SAID
Mrs. Hoff.
Many" 1 repeated. not suspecting
tithe of this munincence
An average Of two girls per week., she
answered simply.
There are, who knows? 5000 or 1000
unattached American and British girls
in Paris. Unattached means workers or
students on limited incomes. living with
cut parents or guardians. When Mrs.
Whitney Hoff came to Paris. nine years
ago. she scarcely realized how their case
would knock upon her heart.
In Detroit she had worked from girl
hood among girls of many categories: un-
til her devotion eliminated in the dona-
ton of its building to the Young Wom-
ems Christian Association. 1900 strong.
Though she had always given herself as
we'll as her fortune, Mrs. Hoff had dis
covered that beyond certain magnitude
even local work needs an organization:
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The UpIift Courteous.

n L. cox. the general manager of the
n. Association of Life Insurance
Presidents, believes that longevity In
America would be increased, and insur-
ance rates in consequence diminished.
IL American cooking were on higher
standard.
Discussing this subject recently. Mr..
Cox said:
But we must urge our cooks for
ward very gently. We must elevate
them without angering or discouraginS
them We must speak to them as the
man spoke to his wife about the Easter
omelette hongroise.
"'My dear said this man delicatety.
as he pushed his omelette away. do
you know. 1 begin to think there are
a few misprints in your cook book?
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colors. and Pennsylvania was far ahead
not only in numbers of men engaged, but
in the percentage of those who were
killed.
The historian William F. Fox, In his
book New York in the War" says:
The percentage OF killed in the soldiers
OF the Keystone state was greater than
the quota of any other northern state.
This high percentage of loss in battle was
largely due to the fact that nearly all of
the Pennsylvania troops served In Vir-
ginia, where the territory was better con-
tested and the war more prolonged. Then
again the Pennsylvania regiments were
second to none. The cavalry was, as a
whole, unsurpassed. They saw plenty of
hard fighting. and their total losses in
action exceeded the cavalry losses of any
other state.
This was the kind of material with
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NnecdoteS
One Kind of Husband.

ADY ARTHUR PAGET, at dinner
l. in New York, said of the appalling
American divorce habit"-for that Is
the shape which our divorce question
takes in her eyes:
And deceit. petty deceit. grave de-
ceit-that is another frequent cause Of
divorce.
."roo MANY husbands are like the one
who said, as his servant helped him on
with his overcoat:
James, if my wife asks you where
1 am, tell her I've gone to the opera.
''The man bowed.
".Yes sir; very good. SIR And he
added imperturbably. And where are
you really going. sir in case any of
your friends should call or ring you
up?"
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DENNSYLVANIA'S Part
/ in Repulsing the Advanc-
ing Hordes of the Confed-
eracy in Gettysburg, the De-
cisive Battle of the Rebellion,
Has Already Been Gratefully
Acknowledged in the His
tories of the War-The Key
stone State Had More Troops
Engaged in the B attle
Than Any of the Other Eigh-
teen Commonwealths Who
Contributed Men to the
Cause - The New $1,000
Monument Soon To Be
Erected on a Battlefield That
Is Already Rich in Me-
MORALS.
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A Dyspeptic Order.

MISS CAREY THOMAS. the head OF
AVA Bryn Mawr College, said at one OF
the teas to undergraduates, that are
charming feature of each college term:
French is the language of elegance. 1t
is quite Indispensable abroad. Master 1t
and avoid the error committed by Ban
gorian.
1.-THE Bangorian entered bouiilon duval
in Paris and stared ,confusedly at the
menu. To him caneton a la Dresse only
differed from supreme de sole In price
He twiddled the menu In his fingers,
turned unconsciously to the back, which
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and all the cities between there and the
scene of the fight would have fallen into
the hands of the confederacy had the
issue been otherwise than it was.
Then also would have been provided
an easy means of entrance to Baltimore
and Harrisburg from a most unexpected
direction-the north-and the likelihood of
a successful issue for the fight of JEFF
ferson Davis and his followers would
have been great
Eighteen states defended the northern
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fighting, when the Union forces, outnum-
bered, were unable to entirely stay the
advancing hosts of Longstreet ana
Hood. Pennsylvania soldiers bore the
brunt of the opposition. and when Gen.
Strong Vincent went to his death on the
Little Round Top he fell on his native
heath.
McCandless and his reserves made one
of the most successful charges or the
day when the fighting was raging over
the wheat field and valley of death. and
nothing was more splendid than the vaior
of Ricketts, and his men in holding the
crest Of Cemetery Ridge against the ad-
vance of the Louisiana Tigers.
The morning of the third day was
ushered in by the charge of the White
Star division under the command Of an
other son of the state over whose soil
the carnage was raging, John w. Geary,
and the attempt of the Confederate forces
to split the Union lines in two by an at
tack on the rear was only thwarted by
the nsatchless skill of the cavalry under
Gen. d. Mem. Gregg. and when last of all
came the climax to the battle on the last
day, the matchless charge of Pfcketts
eighteen thousand men. when they
marched across the open field. a line
mile and quarter in width. coming six
teen hundred yards in the face OF g gall
ing fire, Pennsylvania troops met the ad-
vancing forces at all points along the
line and the Philadelphia Brigade, stand
ing in the Bloody Angle. reaping the
greatest laurels of a great day.
What Pennsylvania did here IS not alone
the glory of the Keystone state. 1t is
part of the national heritage OF glory.
especially appealing since Pennsylvania
citizens had a little more at stake on
that day than any others who battled.
for it was one Of the few occasions of
the war when fighting took place on
northern battlefield, and Confederates
were put in the position of being the in
vaders, of carrying the war into the
enemy's country.
The monument with which this immor
tai record will be preserved to history
is to cost S1J0O0O.
It will take the form of a double arch,
towering more than one hundred feet In
height, splendid in it's proportions and
crowned with a heroic statue OF Victory.
In front of the arch will be statues
of Lincoln, the national leader, and Of
Andrew Curtin. who was governor of the
state during the trOublOuS times of the
war. Around the base Will be ninety
bronze tablets, containing the names, not
only Of the organizations. records OF num-
bers present. the killed and wounded ETC..
but in addition to that the name Of
every man from Pennsylvania who par
ticipated in the battle.
This in itself is an exceptional novelty,
for ordinarily the private In battle has his
deeds remembered only by his family and
friends or by the appearance of his
name somewhere in the hidden, musty
records Of the War Department at Wash
ington.
But at Gettysburg the man who car
ried the musket will be remembered as
we'll as the officer who directed him.
The structure will be of granite, the
statue of Victory and those of Lincoln
and Curtin will be of bronze.
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Of the arch will show scenes of the bat
tie, and it is planned to make these
realistic masterpieces of the art or re-
producing the scenes Of warfare. The
data has been most carefully collected.
and the four arms of the service. the in
fantry. cavalry, artillery and signal corps,
will each have one tablet directed to
showing the part it played in this most
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which Pennsylvania went into the great
conflict on the first three days of July,
1863
In the battle there were eighty-sx Penn
sylvana organizations, sxty-nine of in
fantry. ten of cavalry and seven batteries
of artillery.
Nine of the most prominent generals of
the army, including the commander him.
self, were citizens of Pennsylvania, as fol-
lows:
Meade, Reynolds Hancock, Birney,
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important Of engagements.
The commissioners who have charge
Of the memorial are st. Clair A. Mulhol-
land, John P. Taylor George P. Morgan.
Charles F. McKenna, j. c. Stineman,
H, H. Cummings, Charles E. Quail, f. L.
Whittlesey and H. s. Huidekoper
They expect to have the memorial fin
ished and dedicated July 3, 1910, the
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Concerning
We'll Known PEOPLE.

contained the advertisement of the big de-
partment store in the Rue du Bac that is
called the Bon Marche and ordered of
the waitress-in French. but I translate
him:
One paper of pins. two saws, box
of envelopes, clock. and-er-a boa
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forty-seventh anniversary of the battle.
Yearly the Importance of Gettysburg
as a shrine increases. More and more
visitors go there all the time. and every
new statue added, every memorial or
even marking stone placed. is a matter
for national pride. cause for congratula-
ton far beyond any merely local senti-
ment.
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DESIGN OF THE NEW MONUMENT
be erected by Pennsyvanla the Getysburg batefe

Gregg, Pleasanton, Humphreys, Gibbon
and Geary. Many of the brigades were
also commanded by some of our state:
Fisher. Huey, Irwin Gregg, Dana. Craw-
ford, Zook. Hays. Rowley. Schimmelfen-
ming. Brooke. Stone, McCandless, Kane.
Vincent, Wister, Biddle. Switzer and
others.
The first great soldier of the first day
who fell in battle was Gen. John F. Rey-
nolds. The superb cavalry officer, Gen.
Winfield Scott Hancock, who galloped to
the front at the first sound of battle. and
who was the right hand of Gen. George
G. Meade until on the third day he fell
wounded. was another son of the Key
stone state. Meade himself was Penn
sylvanian.
The first regiment to fire shot was the
18th Pennsylvania Infantry. and the first
brigade to distinguish itself was Roy
Stones still Pennsylvanians.
During the first and second days OF
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PARIS, April 3. 1909.
Correspondence Of The Star.

HOULD this entice
any American girl
to Paris without
good reason, 1t Will
be Ill written. Mrs.
ace Whitney
Hoff asks all who
come to her Tor
comfort or advice
three questions:
Does any one at
home lack material
comforts because
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English ladies in Paris to pay 10 francs
taxi-auto fare to cross all Paris, keep
the vehicle waiting, and enjoy your tea
among your bevies of girl students! They
are most interesting"
For Just as British ard colonial girls
In the proportion of three to one pre-
dominate over Americans at the rue de
Turin. so American girls predomnate
among the students of the union. AT
given moment, membership of S2l stu
dents was composed Of 252 British-and-
colonial, 445 Americans, "a French and
20 German Scandanavians. Poles. Japa-
nese. Russians. Roumanians. Spanish.
and one Parsee girl.)
'They are interesting and delightful
beyond description replied Mrs. Hoff
'They are more interesting than the So
ciety people who come to my salons.
There are girl astronomers among them
mathematicians. girl biologists and phys
iologists Students of arts, crafts. dem
tistry, history, languages and literature.
law, music, medicine, pedagogy, philos-
ophy and science.
1T is not unusual for 100 members to
come to the hostel in one ordinary day
for different purposes; and the number
often runs up to 200. With a total MEM
bership of 1876 received since November,
1905. the present in Paris membership Of
the hour is s65. Many have left Paris
How many were sent home at Mrs.
Hoff's expense, l wondered!
er -
''Among these girls are the PATHS and
Melbas Of tomorrow, girl violinists and
pianists who will be world-famous.' said
Mrs Hoff. "And girl sculptors and paint
ers whose works win praise OF Paris crit
les in our semi annual exhibitions"
Again we run against the modesty OF
Mrs. Hoff in putting the girls doings be-
fore her own. had not connected the re-
cent exposition of girl painters at the
Galleries Modernes with the students hos
tel. Yet it Is Mrs. Hoff who rents the
Galleries Modernes for them.
"They must have chance to show
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once told her pupils the tragic story of
Samson and Delilah. Then she turned to
little boy.
What do you learn. Joe.' she said,
from the Samson story?
1t don't never pay piped Joe, TO
have a woman cut feller's hair :
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Mrs Grace whitney Hon is the daughter of the
late Mr. whitney Of Detroit. Mich. whose large
fortune she inherited. She built the Young
women's Christian Association building OF De
trolt. had a great deal to do with the extension
Of the association in America and removed some
nine years ago to Paris, where she married MIR.
John j. Hon. who is at the head of the Standard
Oil branch in Paris. Though very much en-
crossed with the work described in this story
Mrs Hon has of late years been going more and
more into aristocratic French society.
Special Correspondence Of The Star.
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n the most superb
of all natural set
tings for a battle
ground, G e tt y s.
burg, revered above
any other field that
has seen fighting
in the new world,
a new monument
is to arise.
1t has been some
what tardy in COM
ing. for the deeds
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IN Account of One Wom-
~ ans Efforts All English
speaking Girls May Find
Genuine Friends in the
French Capital-Social Even
ings Mid Dainty Surround
ings for Mrs. Hoff's Wards
Lunch and Rest Rooms for
Students in Art and Music
English-speaking Governesses
and Stenographers Share in
This Careful Guardianship
The Necessity for Such a
Work.
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Four immense bas-reliefs in granite,
nine feet by eighteen. over the keystone
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IL commentaries have been notable In
the nations history for more than four
decades.
The keystone state has not been over
hasty in paying tribute to its heroes of
that memorable conflict that really de-
cided the civil war. but IL there has been
some delay it is to be atoned for in one
Of the most superb memorials that ever
rose above a scene of lofty achievement.
Perhaps Pennsylvania having the bat
tlefeld within its borders and being to
some extent its custodian. has chosen to
show Difference to other states by giving
way to them In respect to the erection
OF monuments. Already nearly every
state that had soldiers in the mighty en-
gagement that turned back the forces
Of the confederacy has in stone or bronze
paid its need of gratitude.
Now comes the Keystone state. Four
thousand OF its men with their life blood
hallowed the sacred ground to which
Abraham Lincoln In the greatest speech
yet made by an American made such
impressive reference In the famous Get
tysburg address. II was fitting that the
keystone state should have had more
troops engaged In the battle than any
other commonwealth, for Philadelphia
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1909-09-13
AUTOMATIC LAW ENFoRcER
An Ingenious Apparatus for the Mo.
&orist Who Desires
Safety.

vice-Consul II. M. Byington. at Bris.
tol, reports as follows concerning a
new British apparatus which controls
the speed Of motor cars:
According to the published descrip.
ton Of practical trial, the device
automatically removes the clutch
when the speed of the car slightly
exceeds the arranged limit and when
necessary the brake is also automatic.
ally applied until the rate is reduced
Just below the limit The brake ID
then quickly but gently removed and
the clutch again put in. A semaphore
is automatically raised to warn the
driver when he is approaching the
maximum. The mechanism, which
fits in compact aluminium box and
works in oil, takes very little space.
1t is put in action or our of gear in
an instant, and there is no need to
stop or slow down the car while this
is being done. The apparatus can
be locked up SO that the driver of a
car cannot exceed the speed desired
by the owner.
Every effort was made on the trial
to get the car to exceed the limit.
which was set for 16 miles an hour.
On coming to q fairly steep hill the
engine was allowed full power and
the car instantly started to gain
speed. But as soon as the limit wae
reached the brakes we're applied
strenuously, as If by magic Though
no sudden far was experienced). and
the engine merely raced without the
slightest effect on the car. the speed
being maintained at the 16-mile rate
throughout"