Show ij 4 0 PERIL y OF FOREIGN TRAVEL I 1 ls an 4 sarrie ta carrie caress bears down boni on oil a KS N disagreeable creature of it I 1 i ia 1 1 ni l i ar 1 WEM WALK unattended akk 1 I 4 I 1 11 if f they ito do thor they are liable to I 1 aa leit in slid 1 usen r ItAl 1 copes cat in iolet tho flar barous i notions atoni otoni that flint linger in fit the lie euro enro la 11 penn capitals capital k A it IS 4 1 I V cap ma by W cohoon Join roB I 1 C just at a the pimont pio oni moment when so go itt Y many women omen ato aio crossing th ill X IAti antiL fur ahn first tonic r inay b 1 abels to draw alk heir ir to ft a very 11 1 I an aal 11 yet so tit delicate llie lc inadi inA C ii tho the it agers to lafell aa tile the in mb r 0 f oil s so 0 are rc exposed if r ill tin outtie out tir to 1 I aill illi escorted in the IN S ot ilia majority ol 01 llo tho townsand towns F 1 ot of eiroku A it warring of 0 this I 1 unkind 5 tand Is I 1 all tile tl more ore needed ellea by trio 1 few E 44 inano nine neophytes or of europa euro ami travel from s S till th courtr it n of tho the en 4 tl roly differ tit nt ga fis or of llo to and ina maui ii wr h hit t pro kriwill isil on 00 tho the public in ir of tile ali various cities of the T eted states lloro lion 3 e ire aro able abl to t li wall alin d 1 I in lurt cd at alm at v leour of tho the day or night Lirt avith hoit too ing lilly any risk ia ol of a arest f ja s t 14 F P ap pp art t I 1 le 4 tw j I 1 ll 11 1 1 ii I 1 I 1 I 1 1 k Z 4 41 t I 1 I 1 q 5 I 1 4 I 1 11 I 1 IV i W 1 I I 1 is IF I 1 1 I 1 1 I Z lff it 1 l ro 4 11 4 f I 1 V ht aki 4 A in I 1 rd if maal expect this kind of 9 it ing 1 11 aa by tho the authorities or ot of insult by male strangers in new york philadelphia ft Ch chloro lago boston or indeed any of 0 the ilia A great american cities a woman can re 1 I 1 tural bru home from an evening performance ac 1 of cl the theater accompanied by her maid h or even alone without hearing a solitary word led calculated to offend her sense ol of propriety end ead delicacy la fal europe however no ISO such security prevails and fe any american girl who ventures to exercise kl there the same freedom and I 1 independence 40 C pen dence of action and of wanner manner as ai at bornt exposes herself to fill all kinds of IN 41 trouble humiliation and annoyance 4 in london after 5 or at tho latest C AS in tho the afternoon tho streets even the thoroughfares Is uch as 93 regent street honl bond treat and oxford street become absolutely impei impossible biblis or of acco ac cessor saor passage to i toy liny respectably Nol woman nan they aro are thron thronged ged with IE st noisy herd berd of fallen sisters whose vileness of language is a 5 04 I 1 1 I 1110 it C ii r 9 1 1 I 1 I 1 r it I 1 i ill I 1 I 1 1 f i I 1 11 I 1 I 1 I 1 11 I 1 J 11 2 J 1 I 1 I 1 I 1 V I 1 I 1 1 I 1 I 1 I 1 I 1 I 1 I 1 11 V I 1 I 1 1 1 I 1 I 1 t J insulat Insul lt in ili ifill i r lot lot t 4 0 ohly I 1 1 equal equalled led by their shame abamo jani je ant and impudence night li is ir it re hideout hy by their serria crp nm ml their is howl anil and their ribald songs and arni it 11 iiii no 0 o one Is allowed to 0 val I 1 strout boing being assailed with ob I 1 ff hoti and remarks and perfect ln pan rtin i mus reigns until ilione 3 0 W cl in the iho morning no attempt to with them Is made by the roll poll 11 hanood 6 good natura nati irLand le 0 boncy r under lindor cheri ire are so a ex eva ev 11 to give rho to the hn guar suspicion felon tl III ahr ehni arn are no altogether alloo lher disinter I 1 afif t it it will be readily under lial flat rn on ahen hon att by A milk ina ilina emori women avold avoid going on f w in london after I 1 oark dark I 1 on the ire are even and nd ll it 11 not ani only but b il also pits ly i 1 I berous for an all tin nn I 1 A 45 aap tt D V e i 4 A 1 f I 1 at V I 1 4 10 41 if I 1 1 1 1 4 I 1 I 1 41 I 1 I 1 I 1 I 1 I 1 P I 1 11 t I 1 i 1 I 1 I 1 f I 1 i I 1 I 1 I 1 I 1 1 I L f 4 L J I 1 I 1 J 0 i I 1 rt 1 I 1 11 W A I 1 I 1 11 4 1 01 I r 41 I 1 1 1 11 I 1 b i I 1 if f A i I 1 alss 1 m 0 it alic P of I 1 4 i etc c fird to lo venture abroad in J ithe tha r n toa tin foot either by night flight or by y idaa I 1 airry vry unprotected member ol of our or n x 10 used with an ordinary share I 1 dv 0 cooil loit ani and youth lio wal ks oil out t F n alone it olt nr matter hat hear tit nf the iho T day 4 regarded by tile llin vast baj of the mn men whom site mo me a or As heir 31 nin il 11 aej legitimate arp and as ulli 1 I 1 ho 41 n 01 d 1 tit td iii ir instills and nd peram u 11 th alio tit nn I 1 linro tire aft n almost divorn anif nn rity but tit ni chero here I 1 it Is with so no m li it imi idonea ard id lla citY 21 20 in the town and cities I 1 I 1 0 or fiance and italy countries where viti ere early each malls male creature that thai ono one meets seems aconis imbued with tho firm den ill that the ho Is absolutely ab irresistible its a ur far our oil it sox BOS Is concerned nor do tile the pollen police 1 afford ua u any protection although I 1 hk alivo a lived long in fit europe particularly 1 rr in ill paris I 1 hyo nover never yet heard of a case or of the tb police arrest i ing 1119 I 1 man inan for tormenting a woman in fit t ito street and yet this Is one of the commonest offenses against public decency it is true that on oni one occasion I 1 saw a american girl who hild had boon been insulted in this way on the boulevard des it carls stop shot loit is tho the whip of a col cabman bruan chosa hosit haaro fia e ra vias as drawn up at tho the curbstone jay it about tho late face at if her torand mentor aith such inch good will that lie ho ta tall 1 l and tied fled amid tho the bystanders who w ho at once understood th the situation and to tile II gratifies tion of the cabman who was actually loci led to tho the exuberance of his bis dolight by dancing a pas soul while tho the castigation of tho the bourgeois was tit in progress nut bat then overy every woman wort lars has not the iho spirit or courage to adopt such radical measures of it slit self protection nor has sho she a whip aa always ays at hand unfortunately there is another danger and trials on that la Is far more serious than the lie species of persecution just described to which our sex Is IQ exposed on abo public thoroughfares of paris and tho a of most moil of tile cities of tho continent in ili franco anil and in the majority of ilia other coun countries trios as s well llie elie police havo have power poster and authority to arrest indiscriminately any woman who b be found on an toot foot in ili the birott either by day or by night without male protect lion from time linio to time the police indulge in ili what it atiat tire are technically described as ralles or kanins ra A cordon t police mostly in fit plain dallies clothes 1 1 quietly drawn around the district selected tor for the razz ri lit trio tho circle is gr allo ally lessened and iid all the women by male escorts found within it ire are ca captured sutured and t taken alen oft to the prison depot thero there they are kept all night long herded together aud and it Is only on oil the ing day that they are offered an all opportunity of proving their aich it if they succeed in doing alicy tit ey bra are sot sol tico fico from 1 I thop window on the tha 11 ou loard Mont montmartre martle in parts paris I 1 have witnessed a of this kind take lake place at 4 oclo c k in the afternoon tho scone was almost indescribable screams shouts cries coarse oatus oaths vile epithets women rushing hiaber and thither and their pursuers suc rs 11 after ter them tile conduct of these pursuers pur who constitute a separate and incise deg raided division of the iho parisian I 1 irl police force towards the tha women is hor in the extreme they strike st riko the poor creatures cretti ires with their heavy fists clutch hold of them by their hidir but hi I 1 them to the iho ground Kro tind ard and indeed treat them as it they bid bad no estigo of humanity remaining abid ran ember that every girl every woman no lin maker at or how her respectability who happened happ enoil to be ba walking unintended unattended by a male escort on the Bou boulevard leard mont marero that afternoon was subjected to till this species of followed by detention at the depot until the following day As I 1 mantlo mentioned tit d above in addition to these pazzla raz both the uniformed and tile the od policeman ti is authorized to arrest any unescorted woman at any hour of the lb day or night whose bo be baglor he chooses to regard as suspicious pi cious clous considering Consi dorIng that the maximum pay of a french policeman does not a exceed sa 6 a week it will leadley be and tinder 0 r stood that this practically irresponsible power affords him nur numerous nerous opportunities of abuse blackmail blick mail and wore moreover oer predisposes him ili a t ll 11 lend himself to seli schemes etres of private revenge only a year olga celina Mou of the iho coll francasso Fran calso a lady decorated with ak till the order do to and occupying on the french iago a kroml bero to that enjoyed by miss adi ada rehan kc ban on that thai of the iho united rd states slates was arrested at 3 2 in fit the iho afternoon while tile walking alono alone down elio kuo 1 too lii du rau all bourg bourg st leonoro elonore ll onore by a roli cemon out of uniform and notwithstanding her protests it M well wall as those of the bystanders was thrust into a can cab and and taken off to tho the depot denot prison fortunately tho the prefect of police was notified of the iho affair before nightfall and Mon laland was set at liberty with profuse prot usei after a few hour detention the shock to her nervous system ceased by ilia elio arrest and aid the he brutality of her ter raptor was w 9 so great that her health broko aown dohn and she died a few mouths months later equally well viell known Is the case cage of the commesso Com Coni tesso do dc canisy camhy who was ono one of the reigning beauties of tho the great world of paris some 3 oars cars ago aeo on oil one occasion she be as a placed under the necessity of forbidding lur her house to a foreigner who had rendered himself to her bar lie ile determined to bo be revenged and ac bribed a 3 couple of elioso choso policemen assigned to the des mui inu urs eurs to assist mot him in tile matter A couple of weeks stocks later ahl while 0 o ci cios qing the street from her mothers house tri SO her own after dinner the th tire ln o mansions being directly appo ono one another she waa suddenly sti llod by two policemen as it a suspicious character truck struck kicked ani and dragged off to the depot prison where here site she spent tile remainder of the night with at 11 number of abo lh most moat degraded bai of our sex en on the following morning the was liberated with apologies finding her way homo home the site locked herself up in fit her room and after writing a loiter letter to her husband who bellot barley ing that she had remained the night with her mother was wai asleep in the ad joining apartment shot herself through the heart in her letter ell sho stated that after tha ignominy to which 0 she had been subjected that night she could never lookin look la tha tho face lisco other of her beloved husband or children again the bereaved husband was able to secure no redress save the dismissal of the two policemen policeman who made a full confession tin tile man who had bribed them prudently left le t paris this these are am only two of many hundreds of similar cases caes that I 1 could eita but I 1 trust that they may prove clont to warn american women t traveling raveling in europe tor for the iho first time little of the dangers of walking out unescorted |