FORTUNATE AMERICAN GIRL.

Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 1922, 3 December 1913, Page 2

FORTUNATE AMERICAN GIRL.

Tho American girl is. fortunate, of that there is little doubt, unci, even though she, bo,, born poor, she rarely seems to remain so. Onlv this week I wont-to lune.li at the Art-Students' Club in Paris, and was immensely struck by tho comfort of the house, the excellence of tho meals, and the many arrangements which, aro made to help tho students in their work. The chib was founded by Mrs. Wbitelaw Heid some vcars' ago, and this last year or two it has been thoroughly reorganised and •ciila.rgcd, so that now it is one of the most perfect institutions of its kind in Paris. Mrs. Wbitelaw Rcid is entirely responsible for its existence, and it is she who has paid for all the improvements. The big exhibition hall where tho art students show their work and the music students hear tho best performers in tho world, where lectures are given by some of tlio first men in Franco, is one of tlio most important of these improvements. But there aro also the excellent reference library, tho studios where the girl* can work and bo warm, a bureau- for useful information, and an admirably run restaurant, which, like all tlio other conveniences of the club, aro open to ontsido members. If only English working women iiii Paris had such a club as tins many girls would he saved from iimeli unhappincss, many privations and ill— losses, and oven tragedies; but, unhappily. English working women of tho educated classes in Paris aro not very well provided for in this.way, and the efforts that have been made to nil tho want have so far been misdirected and doomed to failure.