"THE BACHELOR GIRL" IN PARIS.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XXX, Issue 9229, 17 June 1893, Page 2 (Supplement)

"THE BACHELOR GIRL" IN PARIS.

A correspondent of a French paper strikes a blow for *' the bachelor girl" and the indispensable latch-key. To the girl who writes for the papers, ha says, a latch-key is an absolute nocessity. If the " rules' of the home forbid her to be out after 10 o'clock, how is she to report anything that happens after dark? Even the midnight lamp she dare not burn, since " lights out at 10 p.m." in one of the most strictly enforced rules of the existing homes. To the girl who has been at work in the studio all day the "early to bed" rule is no loss inconvenient. Besides, the facilities for receiving her friends, even when they are of her own sex, are nob very satisfactory in most homes. While as to keeping in touch with her male acquaintances, this, In at least one home that 1 could mention, would bo almost an impossibility, since even the girl's own brothers are forbidden to cross the threshold. If they call to see their sisters they must wait for them on the stairs. In short, the " bachelor girl" has no choice but either to enter the homes as they now exist, and thus give up her liberty, and with it her career, or betake herself to tho ordinary lodging. , Of course the reply to this will bo that a girl has no business with a latch-key, that her place is by her own fireside, etc. But wh»6 is the use of telling any woman struggling for a livingvictim, as she most often it, of spendthrift parents, who would not, forsooth, unsex thoir daughter by giving her the same educational advantages as her brotherthat her place is by her own fireside? In nine cases out of ten if she could lind the time to mope by that fireside, ib I would mean shivering by an empty grate.