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Show Must Not" Lodge With Nuns. The French government's crusade (the word is strangely inappropriate) against the religious orders is having: one very disastrous effect. In recent years large numbers of girls have entered en-tered the postal service in Paris. To the clergy it was obvious that some provision should be made for the respectable re-spectable housing and feeding of these young women,, many of them fresh from the country. The religious orders took the matter up, or. organized restaurants and maisons de famille under un-der the charge of nuns in which the girls could find protection and advice in time of need. And now the female clerks under the government are told that, on pain of instant dismissal, they are not to live in lodgings which are under the control of nuns. . - Everybody who kows Paris at all knows that it is extremely difficult for a young girl to live ' there "on her own," mainly because no Frenchman ever suspects her of morality. The turning out of the recalcitrant religious orders may be a necessary piece of self-defense self-defense on the part of the republic, says Modern Society of London, but in refusing the nuns' protection to the female clerks of the public offices the government is throwing hundreds of girls into peril. There is nothing left for them but the hotel meuble, which is by no means a desirable rtsidence for a young girl, r |
