The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1910-05-15
AMERICAN COLONY IN PARIS
,oR, prRWiNENT RESIDENTS
THERE EiCH YEAR.


-. u,nrt TaIhs ef the Problems a. CAV.
wr a, compared Win America Old
,,,.t.crar, of France. she aaya. 4
.,ou 10 admit New esmers IFom here
Al, and Mrs. Laurence Ben6t Of Paris
-, ,r, Gotham for a short stay on their
- 10 Washington, which vas Airs.
a.,st'. home before her marriage. Mr..
~, Who "a managing director Of the
a,,cbkis- Ordnance Company in France.
until recently president Of the Amsri-
-, rbtnier u Commrroe In Paris. and
,.fs Is one u the best known Of the
s,.,s....s ia the American colony In that
capital
M R.urt has lived abroad for about
,..,ty.ffys wears. while Mrs. Ben6t has
,,,5e her home in PARIS Tor eleven years.
- "a. asked yesterday 20 tell some
,bins about life in the American colony.
You know the American colony Ia
,,,rsssrg enormously. said Mrs Benet.
When C-n Porter vas our Ambassador
var there he told me that az that time
mere we're certainly B.OOO American resi-
t.,ts .r PARIS. and the number has gone
br bsvund that since that time. When
.p.ak II the American colony mean
,,o.. Americans who actually live over
mere not those who take an apartment
IN PARIS FOR few months or a season. Of
,bom the number IL continually On the
IN Paris who have not been back 10 their
own country in twenty years. heard
. woman say only a day OF two before
IF, this time that she had not been in
tho United States in twenty-three years.
Indeed. tho ma jority Of those who come
10 PARIS 20 live for a year or two stay
many years. Personally I like 10 get
hack home often.
You 80 living over there Il % much
more easy than il Is here. Housekeeping
dos not present the same difficulties that
\ doe here The servant question IL
not soapt % hiring gray hairs. Servants
sood ones. tOO-are easier 10 get. and
rheapar living IA not 20 much on the
sirenuous order. and you can set 20 much
more ior the money you spend than you
can In New York or Washington. peO-
~ come over there aud are charmed with
'be ease with which household questions
are solved and 10 some this makes q
strong APPEAL.
A parf Of the American colony consists
II persons who are wealthy and who do
not have 10 work for living, who live'in
magnificent homes and who do a great
deal of entertaining OF course the hood
.,.n,- avru Frr.Vsa Paris rirtrfUaI tka
winter. but Paris IL now cleaner than u
ever had Teen. for parts Of the city have
teen cleansed that probably had never
got such attention before. and the nani-
ary conditions are said 70 be better than
ever
How IS entertaining done in the Ameri-
an colony Well. dinn2r giving Il on the
Increase large dinners. too. There are
not 70 manv halls. But there are manv
afternoon Affairs and mnCheons and tens.
] do not mean those that are given IN the
hotels and restaurants. for the hosts %
thes- IRE persons who are on passage.
Then lots Of Americans 60 no great deal
i0r motoring. Indeed they travel about
To- tins fashion more than the French
themselves.
Is there much minglng between the
American colony and the arisiocratic
French Of the Faubourg 81. Germainl'
French society u very conservative.
] fhnk the presence Of the foreigner h
resented a little. but there are few who
are not very happy 10 he entertained by
the right sort Of Americans. There II
10 Of good being done by Americans over
th@re The Girls Hostel. a. 4 10 called,
en- institution founded 10y Mrs John J.
Hof, II accomplishing a great deal u
rood. renting ~ Il DOS a large number 81
r1dns &C nominal rates 20 working girls
and -tudents. Then the American hos
r'lI b, doing a great deal Of good work
s. for the American COLONY the ma
.Ufv goes away after the '0rande Sc
maine 'hs week Of the Grand prix. and
$500 ~ md them az TTouville or AK
.-.H Baden Badon. or some % the
.r.sI ..-y ~ watering places CA the
.uuuaUt They do not have much 81
'ss chateau lie. which keeps many Of the
n-ncl .oIety people in the country
mil fre winter. hut usually Ert back 10
pans Ite september or early In o.
tHher A great many Americans 60 90
rrrmere- 90 the opera and 90 theatres.
lauy have apartments in the Avenue
Ola Bus Ir BouiOgne. which u an IDEAL
pac" 1f rr.ienoe. and there are MANY
wf1 tlv" houses % their own. Fut m
private residences. even IN Paris. life
rrgus fu 81 "a bit complicated. 10 that
you Will ind most Of them preferring an
srartmsuf 10 a iaEhiOnabie neighborhood
with all The modern conveniences they
could gee over herr and where a few well
trained servants help to make existence
.ar removed from the struggle q h IN