HELPING FRENCH GIRLS.

Colonist, Volume LV, Issue 13843, 15 October 1913, Page 2

HELPING FRENCH GIRLS.

Girls who work in the Paris department store have no time to go home to their midday meal, and the restaurants near where their work lies are generally too expensive. Accordingly, restaurants especially designed for these girls were founded a dozen years ago by a Jesuit, Pexe de Las. They are i managed by women, and only women are admitted. The prices are low. A substantial lunch can be had for ten or twelve cents—on© penny in our money. Another excellent institution is tho rechund, namely, kitchen, which is to be found in almost every street in tho city. A kitchen contains several gas stoves, plenty of water, all the-essen-tial kitchen -implements, besides; tables and chairs. Here, by paying two cents for the use of gas,', watery and saucepans, the girl can cook her own lunch. The Young Women's Christian Association is responsible for introducing the "foyer," a kind of I'Oardinghouse, but with restaurants where girls can find reasonable meals. The'first foyer was opened ten years ago. There ar© now six of them. The result of these endeavours to help tho working girl havo been of great benefit,.both morally and economically. , ,