AN EPISODE OF FRENCH SCHOOL-GIRL LIFE.

Thames Star, Volume VI, Issue 1822, 4 November 1874, Page 2

AN EPISODE OF FRENCH SCHOOL-GIRL LIFE.

On (he 19th of March, 1873, there was a, fete in the young ladies' school at Alais, conducted by the nuns of the "Perpetual Adoration of the Sacred Heart." /her* were private theatricals, and a wonderful " getting up-stairs'' generally. Two pupils, the one aged 16 and the other 14,, noticed that in consequence of theinerrymaking a door leading to the streCT^which was generally strictly closed, was open,: and the idea suddenly occurred to them that it would be nice to run away. They rushed out in their holiday clothes, with, no bonnets, and only a handkerchief tied round their heads. They had some money in their pockets, and reaching the station of the Himes Eailway, only a few hundred yard*, off, they-took tickets for Vexenobres, about an hour's ride from Alais. They arrived there ,at half past seven, and wandered about the streets fof two hours, asking in vain for anights lodging in different J^otels. > Nobody would receive such young persons without a guardian arid Without luggage. They ultimately fell in with, some young men, with whom they passed the night; iflj. fields and woods, For what took place

■hen their companions were in May, 1873, ■entenced to heavy ijunishment by the Kjsize Court of the Guard. But now tho Ether of the eldest of the two girls has (brought an action against the Lady [Superior of the convent for negligence,.in allowing the escape, and the Civil Tribunal of Lyons, while admitting that there was no gross negligence, and the escape of the girls was owing to special circumstances not easy to have provided against, held that the sahoolmistieo did/ not take all the precaution which she Blight have done; and, moreover, when the absence of the girls was known, did not follow them as quickly as possible. The Lady Superior is therefore, condemned to pay lO.OOOf. damages, to be invested for the benefit of the young jady, Mdllo Eugenic L—. until she comes )of age or is mairied. It does not appear (that the relatives' ,of her younger /companion in the extraordinary " outing I she indulged in, took any action in tho matter.—Daily News' Paris Letter.