Show part paris s gay for or some som e folks many yankees go broke in in th the french eFrench capital and beg for help paris ono one of the seamy sides to the gny gay life 0 of f paris la Is that lint numbers of americans go broke enic enjoying 15 ing it and are compelled to appeal to charity to get homo home nobody knows how many of the stranded caringe to get homo home by their own menns me ans by cal ing home for more money by borrowing front from friends who have spent their money more cure care fully or by finding obliging persons persona in paris who will vili indorse their per zonal eon i checks there Is an annual residue horev er cr who cannot get out of their troubles alone last year there were 1390 this year there la Is every indication that tant there willbo wll lb as many migny or more to prevent these from becoming 04 bench beach combers or worse to prevent klicin from being belAg forced to fraud beggary or crimes of violence to live and from being a discredit abroad to the name the he american residents of parts paris dig down in their pockets and provide the funds take cara caco of stranded I 1 other governments anke care are ol of their stranded citizens abroad kven even a down and out citizen of canama can go to tits consulate and it if he can prove a good case of destitution his government sends him home and jt it Is perhaps as well that the united states does not do this flits americans know how tow to in make uie tte of op port unities and it if free passage home were assured there would probably be many thousands annually doing their touring in europe on one way tickets deserted wives last year 81 of therm them turned up in paris husbands sent cent them abroad and then sent them no money Utts banda brought them abroad and left them with promises of ste steamer atner tickets later in the year husbands came over with them and annl vanished ched into the night husbands warded married them here ond and went back to the states without them some husbands had apoplectic strokes and left no provision slon in their wills for wives abroad oil oh thoro there were dozens of versions to the deserted wife story some come of them true sixty alve americans hit the rocks over ever hero here solely through old uge age in comes from home dried up ot at the source jobs vanished into thin hin air and the holders were too old to get new ones the old ago age in each ease casa was real and so was its poverty students always broke students seem to be chronically out of money and last year of them got to tb the point nt at which they had to beg tickets home arld the pien pica for or a ticket home usually included unpaid board bill laundry bills and other student expenses that keep bag gage from getting to railroad stations in self defense the american residents in paris have been compelled to centralize these charities in a little ono one room loftlee called the american aid society of poris paris there Is an imposing list of honorary officials and advisory committee members but the work nork Is done by two these two orp are maj ay W V cotchett and all miss alls s U el 11 meyer there can bo be no nonsense about worthy cases in dealing with the parts paris beach combers worthy or noi not they must be got oat aut o at of town to refuse a halt bait rate third class ticket to s man or woman because tie bo is a amk or a toot tool la Is to malle make further crookedness robbery or other crime and a nd consequent consi quent discredit to the lie anine of american a certainty nine out of ton ten of tho the parts down and autera have no good excuse for their condition some have t taken aken chances cli ances nobody but nn an imbecile lins has a right to take some wasted their motley money major cotchett no louger longer expects their stories to hold water lie ile does not expect deserving cases those are arc rare wants proof of citizenship what lie exacts are proof of amerl ameri vim can citizenship anil and genuine destito tion aton what ho he cn can give Is third class transportation and until the salting sailing dote date salvation army beds and food A surprisingly large prop proportion oroon ot of busted americans are dissatisfied with ith nil all three students want tuition and university expenses paid the society tins has been asked to pay for piano and sing ing lessons women want ann lost jew elry elir vald paid for men alen want new clothes cl othes to go home in and a good many leave the little omee office once in a hult I 1 to come back later inter in a more contrite frame of mind the gentleman who lost everything but ills his silver headed cane ut alonte carlo thinks tie he should go at least class the woman who derived in montmartre until her steamer had gone does docs not want to sell her rings the rhe boys who lived as long as they could on bad checks to do not want to cable cabla their fathers these the major lets stew in their juice until they know what t la Is important and what Is not t lost year there were ampil cants for aid in oil nil all and of the number were aided in one way or another that Is the reverse of the legend of gay paree |