Fulton County tribune. (Wauseon, Ohio) 1883-1925, 1914-08-28
AMERICANS IN PARIS
Personal Experiences in warlocked
Paris Extracts from Letters of
Miss Magdalena stukey to Friends
In Fulton County.

To all our readers the personal
experiences of an American woman
in Paris during these days of war
fare will be of special interest; the
letters were not written for publica-
ton but nevertheless they are filled
with accounts of daily life in the
great French metropolis which can
not fail to interest those of us who
are sympathising with the great mas
ses of people in the European coun-
tries who must bear the hardships,
privations and suffering incident to
war. m
Through the courtesy Of Mrs. E. P.
Ames sister of the writer, we are
privileged to print extracts from
these letters. Those who have an
acquaintance with Miss Stukey, who
is teacher in Hiram College and
who has visited in Wauseon will be
doubly interested in reading her
letters. There is possibility that
Miss Stukey may be prevailed upon
to tell of her experiences in pub
lie gathering on her return to Wau-
seon.
Hotel Soufflot, Paris, Aug. z, 1914.
at is difficult to write you any
sort of satisfactory letter yet today
there has been such an unsettled
state of affairs. We Americans are
the most fortunate foreigners in
Paris unless we can include the Eng
lish and Russians. The poor Ger
mans and Austrians here that failed
to leave France as ordered by. this
government are deported to isolated
localities where they are fed and
guarded. One afternoon ! spent get
aing certificate of birth from the
American Consul in Paris, the next
forenoon I stood in a jammed line
three hours to present it to the
French Prefecture of Police to be un-
der the protection of France then
that along with certificate of resi-
dence from my hotel landlord had to
be countersigned by the Prefect of
Police Of this Arondissement, /
stood in very long line eight or
more deep, hours during two heavy
rain showers to get this signed so
could live in Paris All foreigners
were subjected to similar treatment
now / can 60 and come as / please
in France or leave when our boats
come. ! see only papers published in
France and in England but from the
fact that the nations are against
GERMANY and Austria. iudce thew
ynnst IL a fault All France of
course Il a 4 sta0e of siaue AL
most all our able bodied men have
gone to the frontier. our horses,
,autobuses, vehicles Of all sorts have
left Paris and others are still leaving
their stores and the fau, that arc
onan have onIv older mon and woYnsn :
m wait On tha;r trade Tn I never - draaroA
"a sncb change co,,ld tsLa nlaca
The SCHOOLS for fora;oners ars sii
c,osa5 p,,hl;. schaois fsva ~snns, ~
III az course T tbe .sInst;t,,ta Fran-
caisv IN which I studied seven weeks
Il closed and ;te bead rnar, FOO elderly
for 5v.r .nS nrohehlv hscorsa of b;s
German name Sweitzer. has pone to
the country Am still taking pri-
vata Iecsons With ! Eranchnoan Prof
n~ Rarra have a;cbt iassons vet
NV Jouno ladv exchange want to the
connfrv ana can not oat hacL ha-
canae tbe railroads are reeerved FOR
rn;j;ta rv tran snoytat;on beo;n With
another French ciri This evening ev- ~.
chano;nr Enui;sh and. Erench
no,,at attend r. ~ annl;cat;or fo,
sh;n ma SOS ,,e % With ~ tha - 4 Arnar;csn -sb;ne
when WIZ, thav come I nonst s see as@,, 70 ''il that
and Getting NV name n the New
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