Show ISO social cial diversions of americans in pans embassy always open to those of good repute widely differing lives led by girl students and the wives of domiciled business men NCE an honest amert can it in parle parts mourned because hie his early yeara years III not include an ex per lence ot of college ho lie vas not a university man min and so in lonely pa Is he felt himself barred from the goodfox of the sity dining club an institution that does much to hold good nien men together toge lher in the colony making makin c his lament one day over a gin fizz at georges goorge s bar nar I 1 heard him comforted by the late dr tyng one of the founders foun dira of the club in words to be remembered longin long ln paris IN e were alone a hustling life insurance canvasser dr tyng myself the mourner and the waiter walter made the party jim he cald said to the insurance agent I 1 see you always at the din nera ners sure the hustler lou oi have been through college sure waa was the prompt answer all f they have been through college through harvard hunting a professor who had given me his pre promissory note in payment for i premium I 1 then ane kind face of dr tyng smiled on the mourner comically cant you remember reme moer having been through college he asked the mourner took heart I 1 helped to fit the electric electr a lighting in the new buildings ot of the university of 0 pennsylvania 11 1 I e said dont don t mind the details interrupt cl oil dr byng I 1 come to the next din ner then in a serious tone he e laid down the principles of the american university dining club in paris parts as he their founder understood them wo we ought not draw the line too tight in pails all who try to maintain the good name ct america for cultured life and gentle dealing ought to stand on an equality I 1 atille it Is not certain that this kindly principle remains acknowledged by the organizers of 0 the dinner club it Is pro probably bablo that a search through the club clubs a later lists would dis Liose a fair proportion of university men who would find it hard bard to justify their membership ship and Is it not emble mat ic to of the social life of the american colony in paris any american of good enough re to command a letter to gen por ter from almost almot anyone at honie will find tho the embassy open to him in a way that continually takes away the breath of the british embassy clique in paris parts and brings tears of sympathetic appreciation to the eyes of the nine tenths of tho the english colony observe the widely dI Cering social lives led by american girt girl students of music vocal aud and instrumental and the wives and arid daughters of bust bus ness men hot but actually oper sting in paris brom krom the beginning beg inting the music student girls have always had their privileged place tn in the body of absentee amp vau au property own era from the beginning they hive have taken up if variously arlou sly by the rich idle women of the colony a society belr music makes their opportunity and the rich idle women like to protect ane future star the wives aud ad daughters of active american business men in paris parts have not been eo so fortunate the door has been half open but the ausband or fattier has not bad had the courage or desire to try it I 1 call to mind one such ahe Is the it half grown son and daughter daughters wife of a very wealthy young ameri amert can the master of his fortuna and his dullness business which came to him from bis his father she Is beautiful young with charm las ing ware ways aln anie health gown gowns from pa quin most unlimited pocket money monor and flue fluent n t conversational preach french yet such la Is the t he lack of push of the young husband that I 1 positively believe at af fr for re years of life la in paris parts neither has Jis covered yet of whom the so clety of the Amo american rican colony Is corn cam posed poled he lie belongs tn in it oa if it club but she does not play how ilow does she he pass her time timet in dawdling in shopping in eating in sleeping in novel reading in tea in poetry pastry cook shops in and out he che hope shops of the rue de do la paix and yei yes ln in carriage riding it ie to all done with her mother and stray girl friend friends who are prote gees ahey 1 I hey are haggerson han gereon gerson naturally they try to keep her amused of an evening there will be occa geca tonal atonal whist or poker with friends picked up tip by the husband so her day days par pass and so will ill pass the day days of the wife of any american Amerl cin busl bust neon naan man in parle parts if it the she gets beyond it it will duo due to her exceptional push to be exact the society of the col ony dooe does not beok out the families of business buel nors men it has been ions long enough abroad to he slightly tinctured with that notion the fact fart that the merican colony colon haa has never been able to support an american club I 1 significant of its weak neak cherion ohe che slun sion iho dritley with a R cenius population of some 13 golds Is just able to mil one As early ae as 1867 a trench student of these matters said tho the resident american population of la Is corn cora posed of the diplomatic and cons con ulai corps of bankers of artists and art atu students dents music students and anti of fam fant lies flies come for the odi cation of their t hildren in a largo large and generous syne this still stilt holds good there are ab absentee entee property prop pro pity petty owners widows as goo las writa ladles ladies with little children with ith half grown BIT sor and d daughters with full grown daugh daughters teis the eone sons get away dreaming old malda maids and obese old rna matrons trone given up to the pleas pleasures of the tabi misunderstood ladles ladies there are la who cannot get on with their Ims hiis binda bands who cannot get on with ith their own famil lei who lice flee from their poor relations ladles ladies who have had social disappointments at home who find it expensive to live as they wish at home who flee to for eign ease from home responsibilities rhey come to paria paris for a year end prid remain on half a lifetime they do not come to baay in anything like uke the numbers popularly imagined according to the last census there were 7 americans in paria paris U t the foreigners bureau of the prefecture of police to which all aliens more than sli six mintha in parts paris aro are supposed to re port their changed cl of domicile they will tell ou on there are ara americana americans resident in paris the difference between these figures tr N old maids and stout matrons must be made up of true residents who have shirked registration and the 0 quasi permanent boarders of pensions and hotels caught by the census taker |