The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1911-01-15
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lLS IN PARIS
Mra Leigh Lewis Asks Rich
men to Contribute to
Her Work.
Minnesota Congressman Says
Roosevelt Started Era of Gov
ernmental Extravaganza.
RI QUARTER PERILS
BESET YOUNG STUDENTS
TRIED TO HAVE GIBRALTAR
in PHILIPPINE ISLANDS
hch Capital So Very Differ
mt From American City,
Newcomers Are Puzzled.
Also Had Ambition to Construct
Biggest Battleship Ever
Launched.
Leased Wire to The Tribune.

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NEW YORK. Jan. l4.-Mrs. Ada Leigh
lewis. founder Of chain Of homes In
Paris for American and English girl stu
dents and workers. Is In the city for the
purpose OF discussing with several promi-
nent American women plans for the
guidance and protection of young Ameri-
can girls who go TO Paris for the pur-
pose OF studying music snd art.
II is understood that Mrs. Coils P.
Huntington. Princess De Sagan and a
number of other noted American women
living In Paris are actively Interested in
this work, and others here. including
women like Miss Helen Gould and Miss
Anne Morgan are also disposed 10 give II
assistance. Mrs. Lewis said today:
"A young girl should be possessed Of
health good education strong moral
sense. and An assured Income OF at least
$50 month jf she wishes TO study In
Paris. Deficiency in any one OF these
requisites means inevitable failure and
perhaps death.
1T costs more 10 live well-to live.
that is, as most English and American
girls are accustomed to Iiving-in Paris
than In New York.
Content With Little.
The girls there are very different
physically and temperamentally. from
ours. They are content with dry bread
and coffee and a bit Of meat from which
all the strength has been boiled. all
served in little, dark. upventilated din
Ing room Such living is inexpensive.
but 80 1t would be here. our vigorous.
healthy. hungry girls Will not accept IT
anywhere.
Another thing about which many girls
have an Illusion, Is the practical Impos-
sibllity OF obtaining work In Paris In con j.
nectlon with ones studies No girl
should ever go TO Paris alone unless she
is exceptionally well and strong. The
French know little about either ventila =
tion or sanitation, and the climate ls
damp and unhealthy. Then there is al
ways the shock OF the change due to
different food and water served at differ
ent hours: II all requires rugged con-
stitution."
And are the moral temptations really
ways" explained Mrs. Lewis. There is
the outward and the inward danger.
Common In Paris.
What would seem the widest meio-
drama in New York Is OF common occur
renee In Paris. II is no eXasgeration to
say that girl cannot enter shop OF
restaurant alone. II she is pretty. with
out running the risk OF being drugged.
She cannot safely accept a seat from "A
gentleman In u public conveyance or the
loan OF programme from another
woman at an art exhibit.
"1t Is never safe FOR her alone on the
streets after dark and she must eXer-
else great care In her daytime walks.
She cannot saunter along looking into
shop windows as the girls do here. She
must know where she's going and pro-
Ceed there directly and return. And she
must never permit herself TO accept the
smallest civllity from stranger.
But even more subtle is the peril
within herself. One never knows what
loneliness really Is until one is stranger
In strange city. And girls have such Il
natural instructive passion for pleasure
and fun and happiness.
"They come TO Paris with all sorts of
brave resolves about burying themselves
IN their work, but the loneliness is bound
10 reach them sooner or later. and unless
they find much diversion they must he
strong indeed TO resist what offers.
That's why | think the better educa-
tion glrl has the better her chances OF
keeping out OF danger. for her opportu-
mites OF proper enjoyment are so much
wider She is particularly fortunate II
she understands and speaks French
even with an accent