Scribner's magazine . box - garden offlowers or plants the entire year round,so that all is fresh to behold. Before the opening of this Club, whichowes its inception and initiatory sup-port to a group of American womenheaded by Mrs. Whitelaw Keid, theAmerican girl-student of small means inParis had, to say the least, to strugglewith a precarious existence. Here, un-der matronly supervision, surroundedby refined comfort, and at a minimumof expense, the path has been made easyfor her in an unusual degree. It goes without saying that the girlswho come here are, first and above allthings, bent on
Scribner's magazine . box - garden offlowers or plants the entire year round,so that all is fresh to behold. Before the opening of this Club, whichowes its inception and initiatory sup-port to a group of American womenheaded by Mrs. Whitelaw Keid, theAmerican girl-student of small means inParis had, to say the least, to strugglewith a precarious existence. Here, un-der matronly supervision, surroundedby refined comfort, and at a minimumof expense, the path has been made easyfor her in an unusual degree. It goes without saying that the girlswho come here are, first and above allthings, bent on work, and afterward—as a rule—economy ; therefore the lowfigure to which a girl can bring her ex-penses is a matter of timely interest toset forth. To begin with her room. She canhave a tiny one, of which there are a fewon the fourth floor, as low as twenty-fivefrancs per month. The larger rooms. however, on all floors rent from thirtyto forty on an average, according to size,position, and the matter of one or two. One of the Art Students. windows. Extra large rooms may behad as high as sixty francs, but theseare usually shared by two. Thirty-fivefrancs is the fair average for a pleasantsingle room, and when the young Amer-ican aspirant realizes that this meansseven dollars for a months rent hercourage will begin to ascend. The rooms are continental to the de-gree of a red-tiled flooring, a tiny stove,originally intended for charcoal, and theabsence of gas. The menage provides afootstool, but the girls themselves throwdown their own rugs for prettinessand comfort; these, together with an oil-lamp, and candles for use in passagesbeing usually their first the rooms are furnished en studio,the bed folding up into a couch and alarge Japanese screen being providedto conceal any baggage or trappingsnot ordinarily found in a a couple of weeks every studenthas provided herself with the few yardsof scrim or cretonne, the etchings, andthe half-doze
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