DERELICTS IN PARIS.

Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 1897, 4 November 1913, Page 2

DERELICTS IN PARIS.

Tho work of the philanthropic societies in Paris is both interesting and important to English and' American people in Paris, whether resident or merely visiting, as they_ aro the only 6afo sources of information for isolated women working in Paris, writes a Paris correspondent in "Tho Queen. Tlioy demand patronago from tho woll-to-do, and they givo help to those who are in need. Tho American societies, Bitch as tlio Students' Hostel, tlio Anivrican Girls' Club, and Trinity Lodge, are very fell financed, so is tlio loung Women's ■ Christian Association for British and American working women, but tho purely British philanthropic works always suffer moro or less from want of funds, as tho English colony in Paris is much less well-to-do than tho American colony. Tlio CI iris' Friendly Socioty and tho Franco-English Guild, to name only two, do most excellent work in their different spheres, but they achieve their ends with difficulty, and need all tho support they can get, both financially and morally. The Hertford British Hospital is tho ono hospital run on English lines, and it has to compete with aT now American hospital run on tho most luxurious rules. I3ut. it is impossible to Jin mo all tho many philanthropic works for Anglo-Saxons in Paris, and all that can be said is that they are everyone needed, faulty though tlioy may be, for Paris is thronged with poor, lonely, ill, and elderly women, most of whom need as much help as can possibly ho given them, and many of whom arc admirably courageous, if not verv capable. Men, too' aro not without the palo of philanthropic ventures, and there aro many derelicts in Paris who at ono time or another demand, consciously or unconsciously, help just to keep them afloat. It is li themo on which might bo writton and a work in which much may bo done, this helping of tho world's incapables, failures, or call them what you will, and after knowing and loving so ninny of them, with their difficult, sonoitivo, proud natures, tho task is so oolostml that it seems hopeless.