Rensselaer Union, Volume 9, Number 20, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 1 February 1877 — Destitute Americans in Paris. [ARTICLE]

Destitute Americans in Paris.

It is at once a sad and astrange realize the uuhpiber of Americans that in a state of actual, destitution are to be met with in Paris. It seems ns" though Duty SUQBSiS&Mtfuil ns bright city. But, alas! that is not so. either.pf «ph#rt«ace Wo* 5* PiHSg to their friends* Sometimes lvifi a servSometimes it. is an artist, worn out and corfquered 'in the tong fight against famine with no.better weapon than a pencil aid no better shield than a palette., Than it is a would-be prima donna with a Vadished voice and withered hopes.'.' And r \ Oddest of all.too often the sufferer is some hapmonies in .Jw native land,, abd whose marriage has been hull and void by the omission of some hue of the frivolous her, has cToeerfea Fef ana left Her to starve. Shell cases are far from being uncommon, and pitiful and heartrending as they) a*#. , the , ilaafyoa* do nothing to aid the sufferer. All that can be done is to help her to r<durn-&B speedily as possible; to her family and friends, and in such instances iagdin must tnfefe be an appeal to the American i@Kq|ifiable Association, which, by the way. never fails to respontTwltettTr has'Hhh necessary funds at command* Cor. Philadelphia Telegraph. ~~