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and a fancy tailor for afternoons. when
invited out. That is all. For the rest.
most American girl students come to
Paris TO wear out their old clothes.
laughed Miss Morehart. II have been in
Par.s three years ard still have some OF
the things l brought with me /
wear them still Students are not ex-
pected to dress
pair.
Students of painting are slender, ner-
vous and aHaemic: but the voice girls are
ever round and rosy. Indeed, there Is a
theory that the singing voices deve op
only among very well-nourished girls.
and they certainly go in for comfort
where the painters are taking on rheu-
matism and lead poison, with cold feet
in draughty studos-and indigestion
from milk and pie diet In Latin quarter
creamer.es.
Singing girls have no ideal to fulfill
in a grimy Latin quarter. They prefer
pink teas.
gathered from Misses Morehart and
Randall that pink teas are stu the so!-
ace of lyric studies In Paris, and that
the trouble of the future PATHS Is to
turn down invitations to the smart world.
The daily routine of the songstress Is
full of pleasant activity. Care OF her
physique is of capital Importance. Her
grow fat.
On rising, the future Patti takes tub
unknown object in the Latin quarter
though there Is said to be one in the
Boulevard Montparnasse. but as the girl
lives very retired, few have seen IT.
Breakfast must be only a cup of coffee
and a roll. Then you read the society
columns Of the Paris Herald, Mail and
American Register-importan to a girl
whose life on the edge or high society
becomes almost business proposition.
No girl should sing more than three
hours day, nor more than an hour at d
time. After an hour singing in the
morning. you stroll through the love'y
avenues of Paris to your French coach
or your German lied-er. So, in the after
noon. you trip to your 81 singing lesson.
mise-en-scene or diction, by way of the
Champs Elysees. 1t gives good COM
plexion and a healthy. beautiful body.
No cabs in fair weather for the song
stress
In the afternoon, more singing. Once
/ heard girl doing her ''phonetics. The
specialist was making her bring the
words from the tips of her lips instead OF
the corvolutions of stomach Or nose. He
struck the first note Of the sca'e at the
piano. "Ba-a-a-a-a.'' sob5ed the liquid
sopranon. "Bo-o-o-o-o.", "Ma-a-a-a-a-a!''
"Moo-oo-oo-oo-oo- oo"' In each round
they fitted a new vowel to a new conso-
nant, and as there seem to be about forty
French vowels. the lovely thing was
sweating profusely. AS recompense. the
trainer coached her In the beautiful
words of the song: "Mee-ee-stair-air-
pro-oh-cn- fo-oh- ohnd-'-a profound mys-
terry.
AS their teachers insist they must never
sing outside Of class and practice hours.
it often takes ten minutes coaxing to get
them down on their knees doing the Bell
Song" from 'Lakme' Thus working
modestly and singing only when re-
quested. the girl makes progress.
In the colony we look on her as a
future star. $50 many have become
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False Pride.
WILBUR WRIGHT was dis. :..s til
" splendid work Of the Wright acre

WILBUR WRIGHT was dis 80. the
" splendid work of the Wright aero
planes at Rheims last month.
My pupils he said. laughing, ''didn
have TO display the false, ride Of old
Jack Rogers Of Dayton.
I'VE once had walking race from
Pleasan Hill through West Union, Milton
and Trotwood 10 Layton. Jack Rogers
in his prime had walked we'll. but he was
now getting on. He shouldn't have en-
tered. Before West Union was reached
Jack began to lag, and at Trotwood ne
was very far behind indeed.
1.-THE Trotwnod boys logged along De-
side the old man. They urged him on
warml.'.
Go it, they said. -Steo OUT! You've
still got q chance. Jack. Put some ginger
into it and you'll win yet.
lack frowned and waved the boys
aside. He said haughtily as he .lodded
on:
Cit out. Git away. don't belong to
that SQUAD in front I'm the first of an
other relay behind.
Irate Passenger believe you're driv-
ing over every stone in the road,
Driver-Waal, sir, it takes purity good
driver to hit 'em ADHESION Herald.
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0utbIuffinq a Bluff.

Ohm LOVER, the wild animal expert
of the Philadelphia Zoo. was talk
ing about big game hunting in Uganda.
You must be quick Mr.. Lover
ended. You must be as quick as a
cousin of mine once was in Whitechapel.
'It was Jack the Ripper time. DO
YOU remember that terrible time? All
Whitechapel. all the world was on
edge.
my cousin. looking for excitement.
wandered one night through the dark
est and dismalest alleys and courts II
the Whitechapel slums. and all Of a sud-
den woman blocked his way.
"-Give me your money, all of it, she
said, or I'll scream out that you're Jack
the Ripper. If this crowd gets at you
Them ~,~'
My cousin was always phenomenally
Quick. He took the woman's arm in a
yiselike grip. and he let his eyes blaze
to hers.
Madam he Missed. I am Jack the
Ripper
And with smothered scream she
turned and fed"
The Touch of Fortune.
From Bon Viyant.
What do you think. my dear? Such
luck We leave fer Paris in an hour
Yes. were going to Pasteurs $. My hus-
band has just been bitten by a mad doS."
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THE HOTEL CLERK ON THE NORTH POLE ROW

ample for you of the proper way to conduct
a war. have no doubt in my mind that
if lot Of Canadians and Australians and
other half-wild colonials hadn't jumped
into the muss. the war In South Africa
would still be going on and the native
Britons would still be winning those
splendid victories. ending with a tri-
umphant march or flight Of the Kings
Own Royal Pro and Con Dorsetshires
back to where they'd started from, AZ
irving there one at time, the fastest
runners coming first. with their bluff
British tongues hanging down on their
manly chests and their path marked thick
dropped on the way.
But, be that as it may, we've quit
discovering the pole. and now that once
popular freight and passenger terminal
is comparatively deserted, while the two
leading members of the Brooklyn branch
of the Explorers Union give a spirited
imitation of a couple of grand opera stars
that have been cast for the same bill on
the same evening. The line Of brisk
repartee that they're passing out at this
time. with the help of friends. shows the
world that from sledge riding to sledge
hammering is but step. How did you
lose those two front teeth?' says a sus-
picious observer to Dock Cook a polar
bear slapped them loose while 1 was
strangling him with my bare hands, says
the Dock. If you don't believe it, here
are the hands to prove it-still bare and
likewise unmanicured' Forget it, SAYS
Com. Peary, with true naval courtesy,
It's my private opinion that this here
family physician and milk huckster from
Flatbush avenue west lost that crockery
off his pantry shelf while trying to bite
off more than he could chew I plant
ed brass pipe under the POLE says the
Dock. Pipe Dreams says the Com.
Turn him over on his side-he's snoring
in his Sleep I nailed The flag to the pole
says the Com. Yes, and you brought the
little hammer you did it with back with
you.' says the Dock. The pole looks like
a silver quarter says the Dock. I'll
make you look like that and five cents
added says the Com. Look at the OBJ
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fort that must characterize them. or
course there are professionals and semi
professionals who run to Paris and do
great deal Of good work in six months.
We are not dealing with them. Even the
failures for lack Of time and money go
back to America and earn better pay
singing in churches and teaching on the
strength Of their Paris training. We have
nothing to do with them, either.
"One year / lived on $1.2O0,' unused
Miss Randall. Il was taking only two
singing lessons per week from-(here she
named a famous name). I paid s. per
half-hour lesson in class OF three other
girls. and I used to feel pretty indignant
when the remarkable old dame received
her social callers In our half hour. MY
dear. I'll make 1t up to you next time
she would say to those who got no les
son."
divide up that years expenses" I
asked.
IT was living in pension boarding
house for seven francs per day-s42 per
month. That had to be paid regularly.
The rest took as regularly as the money
would permit. There were two singing
lessons per week at SIS each; two French
diction lessons per week with coach. at
81 each; two mise-en-scene (acting) les
INV -
a German. learning Schumann and Schu-
bert lieds"
She made the calculation.
ut would have brought me to 81 500 per
year without cab fares, opera, theater,
laundry, clothing. books. postage, hats,
shoes, quinine. headache powders. or pen
MES for the poor! had to cut out some
of the lessons. During the hot months L
took q Paris vacation among the mu-
seums. parks and monuments. cultlvauns
my mind, with cheap opera OF evenings
The Grand Opera and Opera-Com1que.
being government concerns. are obnsed 10
keep open all summer. and students win
money even flock to their forty-cent places
the only places where you see a good
norton of the public following the singers
with the vocal score.
ut is splendid to have season tickets to
the theaters and great concerts" said
Miss Randall but I could never afford
them. Being asked to box parties by rich
folks who patronize singers has its draw
blackstone must go for social influence
and prestige; but your mind Is draWn
from the music. You must frequent the
Gals. the Sarah Bernhard, the Antoine,
the Gymnase.'
why did you quit your pension board
ing house?' I asked.
"Too many people to bother you in a
pension; too much time lost talking; too
much second-class society. People are
all the time going off to see the Paris
sights. 1t is annoying to be asked and
have to always refuse. In the evenings
they ask you to sing. You never do. but
you hate to refuse again.
What about the American girls
clubs?'
Miss Morehart lived at the Rue Chew
reuse, the art club maintained by Mrs.
Whitelaw Reid. and Miss Randall had
tried the Students Hostel, maintained
by Mrs. Whitney-Hof. Both establish
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drawback is that the only parties that
would be liable to care to make the trip
are sea lions and not enough sea lions
are travelling by steamer at present to
make 1t worth while to cater to the trade.
But, we certainly live in an age Il
improvement. Larry. I'll not be denying
that Look what the last few years has
given us. The Murphy button, the push
button and the buttons down your wifes
back; the appendix and the proper tools
for excavating same; the wireless tele-
graph and the wireless wire Taper: the
moving pictures and the gin rickey; the
canned bean and the steam laundry; the
sewing machine, which lightened woman's
labor. and the talking machine, which
stole some more OF he. stuff: the night
rider and the moyen age skirt; The
Fletcherized food eating system and the
Australian crawl stroke; the discovery OF
the north pole and the even more inter-
esting discovery of all the facts In regard
to the early history of the gents who did
the discovering. You bet, if had a past
life that l wasn't advertising. I'd leave
the south pole strictly alone. But it all
goes to show how mankind keeps step
to the drumbeat Of progress. That's not
m. own phrase. Larry; got 1t OF a head
line. But it's all right at that.
"A little while ago and electricity was
a toy that doctors and children played
with. Now what would we do without IL?
1t goes with from the cradle to the
grave. If there was only some way to
blow it out. 'twould give complete salts
faction. even to the farming population
and parties contemplating suicide. When
we are infants they warm our milk for
US with it. Growing up we want electric
belts; We have our diseases and our pants
pressed out with an electric iron; we eat
food that was cooked with electricity, and
tastes like 1t; we are run over by electric
cars. and we get sent to the electric chair
Only as far back as yesterday all you
had to look out for when you venturcd
abroad was the automobile, the bill COL
lector. the trolley, the truck. the hanson
cab, the taxi, the bicylist, the switch en-
gine the gentleman who carried his UNI
breila under his arm with the ferrule
pointing to a quarter past three and the
lady who walked one direction and looked
the other. That was all. But today. by
heavens, you not only have to look out
for all those with some of your eyesight,
but you have TO keep part Of 1t aimed at
the sky above for southbound aeronauts
whose little aeroplanes have failed to aero
properly.
We live fast these days." said the
House Detective.
And we die even faster" said the Hotel
Clerk.
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ed ambitious, bubbling with the joy Of
life, yet keyed down to the specialist 8
clear-seeing intent by two or three years
study in the French capital. They have
learned the need of money in lyric Paris.
Their experience Is valuable to dreaming
home girls.
1T has cost me all of 400 a year to
cultivate my voice in Paris: and / live
Cheaply In this attic apartment with a
charwoman at seven cents per hour to do
The heavy work." affirmed Miss Hortense
Merchant of Chanute, Kan. Miss Blanca
Randall of GadSden. Ala , has spent near
err 1900 a year-'including very few new
gowns Both have tried every way Of
living in Parasite arrive at the manSard
apartment and the charwoman.
Studying for opera In Paris is long
story.
Il hoped TO do everything in a year"
laughed Miss Morehart. Il had worked
four years at home. I expected TO get
the repertoire 1 wanted in Paris-and
hurry back. I have been here two years.
and have another year before me, GER
tain-perhaps longer
If the work were all it might be
shorter: but three girls out of four lose
half their time changing teachers. There
is no remedy for this. no suggestion to
give newcomers. Hunting the right
teacher who can locate their voices
and push them at the same time is the
problem of each individual girl. She must
work 1t out for herself.
We drift says Miss Randall. You
meet girls who have been working seven
or eight years in Paris and done nothing
yet, There are $4,000 music teachers in
Paris
And only ten good ones" Knocked her
lively little comic-opera friend. THE trou-
Bile is, they are never the same tent
All of which brings us to 81 900 for four
years voice preparation and the com
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thirty congenial English-speaking girls.
There are students of painting who
live two or three years in the clubs, not
caring to acquire the languages" she con-
tinued Their home atmosphere is detTi-
mental to the languages: but the steam
heat. baths and dainty furniture and good
food make for the comfort essential to a
girl who cllltivates her voice.
What about the endless Bible classes"
I asked.
You are not forced to attend them
but you feel bound in common gratitude
and respect for the head of the house TO
show occasionally. You have the Sunday
afternoon service. 1t lasts an hour. On
the other hand there is no steam heat i'll
the pension boarding houses. You furnish
your own bedroom fire. When you go
out 1T goes out"
From the girls club to light housekeep-
ing in Paris is thus a natural evolution.
l was curious to learn what it cost these
girls to live in their mansard. The situa-
ton is good. i'll the Are de Triomphe quar-
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dainty, feminine and branG-new. in good
taste.
I'VE are lucky to rent smart little
fiat said Miss Merchant. "Neverthe-
less. such opportunities are commoner
than YOU might suppose. This fiat was
rented and furnished by another Amer
lean girl student OF the voice-who ran
short of money. She has gone back home
to earn more: and she wants to keep this
fiat just as it is. So she let us have 1t
for So per month. all furnished as Il is.
Otherwise. we should have to pay from
$50 to s24 per month for dirty old furni-
ture in professionally let fiat"
What does It cost you to live in it?''
with the charwoman three times a
week to clean up. it costs us about $50
per month, sos apiece. including gas.
rough laundry. and the rent of the piano.
We have good steaks and chops and an
American variety Of fresh vegetables,
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and pocket money
That is what I call comfort said
Miss Merchant. Without comfort a.
girl cannot do justice to her voice or
studies. There must be no worrying
about money. 1t is the ruin of progress
Cab fares run up in Paris" I said.
Yes, the distances are great, but we
take cabs only when we are late for a
So singing lesson, or when it is stormy.
One must not catch cold-that is another
ruin. Our fine laundry costs US each 10
cents per week-much cheaper than in
America. Our economies go to opera and
theaters. cabs music and books
And clothes?" 1 asked.
lone must have smart evening gown
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ments are perfect-but no places for a
girl to work at serious voice cultivation
Again. too many congenial people,
said Miss Aiorehart. The girls clubs
of Paris have the disadvantages of a
great pension. only more so. They are
immensely more luxurious and honey.
They present great advantages. They are
clean. smart. art-furnished, with steam
heat. baths. afternoon teas, libraries in
formation bureaus, free medical attend
ance. entertainments, charming society
and all for So or So per week.
dali. 1T was. too congenial. too agree
able. Instead of hurrying to my room to
work. l would stop in the salons. chatting
with the girls
II hear that the clubs lack freedom" 1
said.
No" answered Miss Merchant You
can go out evenings to all the theaters
you like-the directress encoura ged it for
those studying opera. One night l went
to dance and did not get home till )
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tier; but the apartment is six flights up,
without elevator, on a great silent court
yard, with never view of any street.
Two tiny rooms and a bijou kitchen.
There is scarce space for tea table and
piano." laughed Miss Morehart. THAT
chntZ-covered divan is my bed. Blanca S
room. not having the piano, contains our
mutual dressing table Observe how the
wall slants in as it goes up. 1t is the
mansard and makes the rooms rather
warm, at times in summer; but the even
ings are always cool and we do not have
he excessive heat of America in Paris
OBVIOUSLY an attic, Nv. thout eie"rr1c
T. 1T. with one Fopen-grate chimney TO-
heating and a gas stove in the dolls
Kitchen; it's summary furniture was
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They didn't, in fact, spot him when he
got his last four-specker for the knockout
drops job until he was stripped and look
ed over for Bertillon comparisons upon
being arrested. Then they found certain
physical characteristics that identified
him with his Rertillon chart that was
already on file, and then they picked out
his several Photographs from the mug
department and recognized him east y.
They had to put the right side Of his face
under strong glass before they were
able to trace the s. from which the Jap
had removed the ink without leav ng any
visible scar
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process and after that Bertilloned has
some popularity that stands out--a squirt
or a stare, a sidewise nose or a hooked
one Happy ears. a broken finger, ragged
teeth or unusually good ones, a charac-
teristic way of walking or using the
hands: some sort of kink whereby he is
spotted and marked by the headquarters
men who look him over.
LAS it is the habit of detectives to Law
particular, almost exclusive. stress upon
these peculiarities in identifying Crooks,
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along with four other fellows with whom
n, was working. He squealed. and was
turned loose for landing over his evidence
|" the state The other four got two
spacers each: tNo years apiece. that is
me first thing the four did when they
We're let out of Joliet was to hunt up
their former pal who'd peached on them
hot tn XIII him, bat to brand him They
got MIN down in New Orleans, put him
ont. tossed him into a hack and drove
him to Il plant that they'd fixed. Then
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.RLS preparing for
opera In Paris
have got to be
comfortable. That
is why we live in
an attic.
T h e y laughed
gleefully as they
told it-theSe two
bouncing Ameri-
can girls from
Kansas and Ala
bama: high-heart.
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the crooks go to all sorts of trouble and
expense to effect shift in the giveaWay
popularity.
II know of sparkgrafter-diamo
pincher that is--who went all the way to
Japan to get himself changed from his
BertillOn. He's now doing a trick Ill Sing
Sing.
About eight or ten years ago this gem
frisker stood for a pinch in Chicago.
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OF their time in trying to get away from
their rogues' gallery muggings and their
Bertillons. They don't have any truck
with the foolish junk comprising the dis
guises commonly described in the detec-
tive yarns. They go in. instead. for the
eradication or covering up of their most
pronounced characteristic OF feature,
shane, gait or manner
Every crook put through the mugging
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WHAT VETERAN SLEUTHs THINK OF THE PICTURE SHOWS

V E T E r A n New
York detective Of
the headquarters
staff, down here on
business last week,
was smiling satur-
ninety as he came
away from a NOV
ing picture show.
I've been watch
ing one of those
moving picture de-
tective plays" he
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a. m. and the directress knew it. 1t was
all right
The hostel. is run on different PLAN"
added Miss Randall. 1T is an ideal place
for very young and inexperienced girls,
not knowing Paris or the language"
t'What business have such girls in
Paris?' l asked.
1T is splendid thing for girl to come
to Paris at once for her voice. at seven
teen or eighteen years, before she has
anything to unlearn,' both insisted: but
l am not sure that I agree with them.
x -..'.-
Miss Randall did good work at the Stu
dents Hostel, despite the handicap OF
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By Irwin S. Cobb.

rs been a quiet
week, very said
the Hotel Clerk.
HAS it"' said
the GU S e De-
tective.
1T has, said the
Hotel Clerk. Here's
a whole week gone
and not a single
amateur or pro-
fessional discovers
the pole. I don't
Lo1, IN tho carly
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Anyway. there were big doings in the
discovering line for few days. And then
all of ii sudden we quit. That's the way
with us Americans. Larry. We are. an ex-
citable and uncertain race. as We have
often been told by our cousins across the
sea. We start thing and get tired Of IT
and call IL a dog and are on our way
home before an older and rustier civiliza-
Ion would hardly have got under way.
Look at our reprehencible behavior in the
war with Spain. With characteristic
Yankee ignorance of the proper mode oc
procedure in such cases. We hoped In and
had that war all sewed up and packed
away in camphor balls inside of three
months. How much more dignifed and
becoming was the attitude of the British
- their row with the Beers. There's eX-