Show rr Ella Wheeler Wilcox F I F We Wc e hear much o of the flamboyant 1 American woman abroad who ho gets el hors herself JC discussed ls through her extravagance extravagance I gance her coquetries u and nd conquests s manners und nd her independent in We e hear of or her traveling through 4 Kay gay a resorts azu find living ll In Jn expensive hotels anti and wearing elaborate costumes tolls at home to to her husband f pay jay her hills or alimony We c lear hear too oC or h her r connivance sent abroad road to r with physicians l to be fashionable health resorts or with musical brokers to be sent tent abroad to V study leaving Jea unperformed duties V at al home p. p V V There arc many such women in Eu Eu- I rope But Hut there arc are too American women wom wom- l' l angels of or mercy V en cn fl abroad who arc ure V in iii foreign foL-eign centers und and whoso who c presence V Is a lL blessing to their sex V V Who A Woman oman ao I Living In inn Paris Palls because her husbands husband's hus bus V bands band's business necessitates It It Mrs V V is active in helping the tine good to tobo toV Horr hoff V. V V V V bo ho better beUer the despairing to lo regain V hope the tine sick to find health and m the Lime thel V tempted lo to resist l' l Paris Parl Is the mecca of the time ambitious V V students of or art ann alu and music In Ameri i thousands of small American V ca In lit i villages ages and towns there are alC young oun arc considered consid 1 people leople of or both holh sexes S who are arc V friends Because Be lie- b admiring t ered crell geniuses by a or orI pictures cause tile they drew pretty pretty prett tunes sing pretty airs or oi play I led to believe hellove that they can cnn canI they are arc V i Jenny Jonny LIncIs orV or become I if they come com to II Paris V Their families make mal great reat sacrifices sc 1 V send them over here And Am of r to expected that thal course it is I not to be V. V live b by pursuing pur- pur V teachers of oC the arts who V I V will inform suing their vocations aspirants for Cor honors r. r these those ambitious mistake In coming I that they made malle a V home V and that they thoy hall hail better go f. f That would bo he the kind hind thing to say saylo ly V hun hundred H t lo to ninety eight out lilt of or even I every I it I Is not nol said 1 V nut hUt toe tile t An And because they tine the arc not V V painful truth lruth thousands of tiC IC un unfortunate un- un V V fortunate fortunato girls and anil boys drugs drags on onI ont Paris in miserable years through t I V and reaching no nothing V achieving 1 i V V goal V heart and hope health file fl They lose Jose I often InCH morals and ami arc ashamed and aini V V to show sho and have havo nothing I to go goo home life lire expensive c of V VV for their yearn Is depleted family purse PULe abroad The rho and in their ef efforts efI ef- ef here then them V to keep 11 economize I hoy frequently I V forts lo tn serious maladies and grow row I contract nl old V. before V they have V passed out ot or t IOU J youths youth's domain V ViM I COli Counsel n I i V counsels coun conn- through the tile wise vise 1 It has been F that hoff aid of Mrs se sels seis am and practical LV j women anti and young men ono one young have I V described above aboe In the situation last year ear that this see e to toe made been een they could do sensible sen thing thinS the time only back bade to America America- L And she shek I I was to go along with InI in innumerable In- In them them to lo go o k has numerable helped other good woI works she hc has I. I I here done is another American I Mrs 1 Muller Interested in iii doing good in inI woman with n eh church American V The Paris head 1 I Goodwin and his wife wl at al the Mr who need asp assi assistance as as- 1 Americans I art are helping thousand practical ways r p si in a work worl confined to their is Is' their Not Nor lotI rot lot I saw a room people V own country bus JUS sewing J V women full oC or charming fly ily one on afternoon for foi the French poor One afternoon of oC each week weel these women wo wo- men devote to this sewing bee lc And that is here in the heart of or the tho gayest gay gay- est st metropolis In Europe where there Is so o much to see and hear and do O for ones one's own pleasure an and tion Lion The Tue women who were bu busy with needle and arid scissors ors were all possessed possesse of or culture and tind means menns to enjoy and grace graco the lIw hest social circles yet et they willingly ly give a largo large e portion of their time to work worl Cor for others less Jess for for- The Dangers a II CIS CI'S of Paris lat Nothing could be better for the hundreds hun hun- of American An girls gl s who come to Paris to study and who o hope hOIe to lo convince the Parisians how Indifferent In they arc are to French ideas of lor halor and living accor according to her hem own standards of good conduct in her own native way vay yet yel the ence of Paris I is so m insinuating and seductive and amul its life so to wholly unlike un tin- like the tho life of any no American city that thal a n. thousand dangers encompass her without some safe are guidance Not the tIme hangers dangers ers of or losing hosing her self self- respect but the dangers of oC losing the respect of oC others nee needlessly It IL is a grave mistake for a girl Jill from oni some interior village of or America lo to undertake to show shio Europe how Independent In Independent in- in dependent we are Mortification humiliation misconstruction miscon and lasting disgrace result from such an all attempt American n I In Iii Europe is growing broader in lii its ideas of oC the laws lans which must control control control con con- the conduct of respectable wom worn en The Influx of Americans luring during thelast the tho last twenty years ears has hns ha hind had its beneficial effect But nut there is a rl right ht way and n a wrong way a tl safe way and a tt dangerous danger danger- ous way vay for the time American girl to carr carry out her Independent over ovet hel here And It Is the Influence of or cultured and attractive women I such uch as those I 1 have mentioned above e and man many more moro like these the wholesome minded and amI sensible American women While it t is possible and right for forthe tint the American girl In Paris who comes conies hero here Ion for an nn intellectual purpose to maintain them lem which helps the uninitiated uninitiated un un- initiated to know mow the right rl ht way wa or 01 to timid it after uCler having started l on the the- wrong wong path or s 's best besl of oC all mill all to Und 1101 the courage to go 0 back home lionie and amid there ma mnnIe malte Ice use of If the opportunities and anal leave heave Pails Paris to lo the tho occasional gen gemi- en ius Ins occasional genius who ho ho is s And the tho really ready to stU study Y in Paris Is rare in indeed ed |