The Hartford republican., 1913-09-05
Many FAIL IN
PARIS CAREERS
Lonely American Girls Die
In Metropolis.
Work, Worry and Longing For
Conpanionship Cause Of
SsN-Destrrctior.

Paris, Aug. 3u.-Edward Jeanmonod
is a smiling little Freuchman and al
undertaken He il is who buries An
erican girfs in Paris after they've
killed themselves.
Il don't know why they end their
lives. he told them with a shrug. i
wonder many times, but ] DO not
!. nov. MAJ be il is because they be-
come 50 lonesome. But ! have burned
many, many Of them.
How many"
"Wdl. ;or tbirty-five years my
TWO uncles buried most q the Amer
leans who died in Paris. and ! was
with them for many years. Now
have their business. But ! have nev-
er counted.
Sometimes have had chances 70
talk o the girls in the hospitals. for
! am the sexton of the American
church, but they never tel why they
used poison. or gas, or buEets.
There was the American CIR who
dice in Paris. July 3. Her name was
Agnes Nacduff. and when heard that
she was in the hospital ] went 70
see her. Il was June j. tina she
took The poison IN her room a.
good hotel
A; the hospital. after a few days.
she said 20 me. Oh, I'm so glad that
| will get well ] was SO lonely
wanted 70 die. But DOW I'm bsuer.
VIII you take some o, my money and
buy me { ticket for America: liz
going 70 20 home again She talk
ea all the time as If she thought
she would ger well. She had plenty
, o. money and she Was beautiful and
full o. Smiles. But she got worse
and died.
We didn't send her body bone,
but buried IL here in Paris. She'll
sleep Jus; as well as in America, ]
think.
1t is sad. too. is * not: They
-pme here TO do some big things-to
& great painters or great musicians
and then the loneliness drives them
I 70 death
Some o. them are beautiful, ]
think the NOS. beautiful woman ]
ever saw vas an American girl whose
body lay on table in my place. She
was q wonderful singer. but one
night she dressed herself beautifully
and gave q party 70 some friends
Then. as soon as they had gone. she
sho; herself Every body said she was
lonely.
And then thsre was gril-oh,
she was a fine grill, Desrtiful-y-ho
played the piano and studied music
under a great artist One night she
sent q servant 70 buy her q big meas
ure OF ice cream and while she ate
the ice cream alone-for she had no
friends in Paris-she Jet the gas
fill the room and kill her.
DO you suppose she made believe.
ar she died. tina; she was having q
little party with the ones she loved
al home?"
And the little undertaken told me
Of more cases Of bullets. gas and
poison; o, fine. brainy American
girls killed by LONELINESS" in busy,
gay, beautiful Paris. the center Of
the worlds art.
How old are most Of the girls
who have Killed themselves in Paris?
! asked.
1T is odd, but they are all BE-
tween zj and 20" he s4di. Isn't
that just about the time In life when
a man or woman realizes whether
the path they have chosen is/he
right one or not?'
The tragedies OF careers
Most OF the American grils the
litle undertaken has buried in Paris
are, ! think, girls who have chosen
fcsreers' and then, al the last,
when IL has seemed 20 them TOO late,
have discovered that there are more
wonderful things in life for women
than making fine music or painting
/ splendid pictures.