IMITATING CHICAGO GIRLS.

Rangitikei Advocate and Manawatu Argus, Volume XXII, Issue 9002, 15 November 1907, Page 4

IMITATING CHICAGO GIRLS.

Mclllo. H , a pretty brunette, of the department of the Nord, hail (says the Paris correspondent of the Daily Telegraph) just ivached the age of ;10 when aha prevailed ou her parents to allow her to pay a. visit to Paris. She hacLroad much about the independence of the American girl, and, wishing to imitate her, refused to travel with a companion. She convinced her parents that she was sufficiently strong in body and mind to take entire care of herself, and nothing would give her greater satisfaction than to go to Paris alouo and ssc the sights, with a guidebook in her hand, like any girl from Ohicago. The parents, after jnuch opposition, at last consented, but on the condition that she should go to an hotel whoso proprietor they know and whogwas from the same part of the country. Mdllee H had been for some days in Paris', and was enjoying the sights immensely. In a cafe she made the acquaintance of a handsome, well-dressed young man, who. like herself, had nothing to do, and who offered to accompany her to some places of amusement in Montmartre, which she had not yet seen. She accepted, and, after visiting the Mouiou Rouge, the Rat Mort, and other gay pi acos in that quarter, ho escort.id her homo, and pushed his politeness so far as to accompany her to her room, where, after another pleasant chat, the girl suddenly fell asleep. When she woke up she was horrified to find that all her valuable things had. been stolen, together with a sum of ICOOf. She lodged a complaint with tho police, bat as she drew a, cheque ou tho'followiug day, she was not too much inconvenienced by tho occurrence, and had made up her mind jiever to let her parents know what had happened. A few evenings later, however, she happened again to see tho handsome young man who had robbed her, and who was enjoying tho play. She waited patiently,, and, after leaving the theatre, followed him to tho boulevard Magenta, where she tried to have him arrested; He turned 'ou liar with a knife, and, after stabbiuhg Jier in the lungs, fled. Mdlle. H—— was conveyed to the hospital, and there she is lying still, hovering between life and death, as a consequence of her attempt to imitate tho independent girl from Chicago.