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Show American Girls in Paris, Tragedy in the' Death of Mrs. Gore-Merely Gore-Merely an Incident of the Colony in the French CityThe European Lady.Killer. v fZ&V?' HE traSedy of Mrs. El-iJS El-iJS 1?n Gore docs Rot stand Wt out uni(l"ely in the an-lfTil an-lfTil llaIs cf the American ?rSfv colony in Paris, except plsri by the Publicity that i haS been &iven to it- ftL (-)tner American girls t& ef have been done to death ' ' l . or left to die in mystery and indifference. And just as. there are tragedies that do not become known, so there are more that stop at the supreme sacrifice sacri-fice of life. The girl has saved her life, yet carries hate and sadness in Tier heart. Most numerous of all, however, are those who have played with danger, who have wilfully and ignorantly let themselves be put in fals3 positions, who have been befooled into all sorts of compromises. The truth is that our girls who go to Paris walk, as The Lady walked in "Comus," very inocent amid a horrid j abject fright when the brave girl grabbed the weapon in his hand, j "But, mon Dieu, be careful, mademoiselle; madem-oiselle; it will go off and kill us both!" he cried. Then, as he let go of it: "Mademoiselle, dear mademoiselle, I beg of you, don't shoot!" The girl still keeps that pistol. One of the best and kindest matrons of our colony, who gave these details, has seen it. What is the difference between it and the revolver that killed Mrs; Ellen El-len Gore? None, probably, except .the accidental discharge of the latter in a similar struggle, for the story of her Russian slayer is.believed by no American Amer-ican in Paris. Indeed, this asinine bluff of the revolver re-volver is one of the stock resources of the ' European lady-killer. Three years ago in Rome an Italian army officer, offi-cer, one of those furnished by con. tract to a famous touristpension for dancing partners, drew on a girl from Ohio, in a cab. . v "I will kill you then, myself," he whispered in the proper tone of passion, pas-sion, but when the girl from Ohio laughed at him his whole effect was spoiled. Of course, she ought not to have been alone in a cab with him, arid Mrs. Gore and the girl who grabbed the pistol ought not to have gone alone to the men's- rooms. Yet both were decoyed thereto by lying telegrams, and the life in boarding houses naturally leads to such imprudences. im-prudences. , ' Then, if every girl who finds herself alone with a Parisian man is to lose all right to his respect, how are our American girls, jn Paris' to -take singing sing-ing lessons? The . Parisians ,.s.ettl.Q, j,t , By accompanying the girl with a hard-headed, hard-headed, tough old chaperon. But. what is' an expense to. tire Parisian becomes an impossible burden to the majority o". Americans, already overwhelmed financially. V ' '.. '," , 'i ; When you take" a pretty American girl to theater, music hall or .circus you know what the ticket seller, ticket tick-et receiver, , usher, box opener and the Worhen sitting about you tthink of her and yourself. You kaow- what the cabman' .thinks of the adventure and the restaurant waiter and the supper "You Know What They Think of Her." ' - - Her." rout, protected mainly by their innocence inno-cence and plain dumb luck against aB kinds of beasts. " In Paris any man is free to pay his "court" to any girl he may have, the' good luck to discover parted for the ' moment from her mother, guardian or chaperon. He may follow her on' the street, saying what he will; he may persecute her in drawing academies, singing schools and lecture rooms; he may waylay her in hotel corridors and dog her tip and down boarding-house boarding-house stairways. Whatever happens, he is always in the right and she is always in the wrong. If the French have rules like tliese for their daughters, how shall the foreigner for-eigner escape ttyem? ' There is a girl from America in Paris at the present time, talented and beautiful, whose voice may make her fortune as the world goes. Three times she has had to change her music mu-sic teacher in the past year, and she is now working with a woman trainer! The men could not refrain from trying for "successes" with a girl whose dismay dis-may would have cooled down an An- ffln-Sflvon man jflj One of these male Parisian voice trainers imagined a subterfuge that so recalls the earlier incidents of the Gore tragedy that it might well serve as a key for the unlocking of the later mystery. The girl had left him for another vocal trainer. Therefore, he sent her a petit bleu a letter envelope that travels from one' part of Paris to another an-other in pneumatic tubes saying: "Mademoiselle, I have a communication communica-tion of the first importance for you. Will you do me the honor to find your-seli your-seli chez moi (at my place) this afternoon after-noon between 4 and 5 o'clock? The communication I have to make promises prom-ises to have influence for good on all your future career as an artiste. Therefore I implore you do not disregard disre-gard it." The girl was poor and it might mean an operatic engagement, something, as you will see, she had begun to despair of in Paris. At a sub-postoffice she Waylaid in the Corridors. parties and the leader of the orchestra orches-tra and all his men and the poor loafer loaf-er on the curb who waits to open your, cab door. i You hear (in your minds' ear, from old experience) the whispered gibes and ' compliments, the cynical- appraisements ap-praisements of the rout of' the; Comus. Ycu. bate yourself for the false hero, the Imitation conquerer, that you must stand for. in the European imagina-" tiori. , But the chaperon? Suppose you insist in-sist that the girl shall come with a -chaperon. It will make so little difference. dif-ference. "The others" have their chaperons as well. Parisian slang has -a name "for such chaperons. Indeed, , the poor chaperon gets the worst of the gibes. You see, Parisian unmarried unmar-ried girls do not go to theaters or restaurants at all. They do not promenade prom-enade with men, not even with chaperons, chap-erons, . Then, you will say, the real protection protec-tion is a husband. No, because in European Eu-ropean thought the married woman is the fairest of all game. Paris should know how things go in Paris, and one simple, single rule will help our girls through nine-tenths of t'aese wretched difficulties. The rule; When in Paris, either for amusement or for study, never walk , or stand or sit alone with any European Euro-pean man a single moment. And as a counsel of perfection, here is a sub-rule: Go about only with such American men as happen to be welf known to mutual friends, both male and female. Such men have, so to speak, a stake in the society in the. society in which you move.' They are not irresponsible New York Sun. Chaperons With the Others, wrote him a petit hleu declining. Then, on the impulse, she tore it up and went to the man who had already "paid his court" to her. The fellow had three arguments all ready free tuition, an engagement and a seven-shot seven-shot revolver. 'Be mine!" he hissed in concentrated concentrat-ed passion that imme.-'iately turned to |
