The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1850-1873, 1871-08-25

price Is paid no matter whether tn
guest stays aweek or two years. Ii
the Grand Heel the few suites which
are higher-$0O week. But thu
average Is notso high. You can get
two gOod-si2ed rooms in most of th,
: European hoels for 500 a week OF
$4,000 a year. With regard to YOU
meals, you payfor what you eat. You
pay for peas, 20 cents; for cup O
coffee, 80 cents An examination. O.
the restaurant hlls in one of these no.
tells gave the following result: average
for breakfast pne person., So; fol
dinner, $40 or $1l; for supper, about
S. or $6. A Whole family can live
somewhat cheaper, for of some of the
dishes, as for instance of beef, an order
for one will bring enough for two. But
on the whole theHesult is pretty much
the same. A family of three persons
will, living economically, spend easily
between $50 and $40 day on their
meals, which voulo am0pnt in the
year to more tbgM f.milies 10 - .aa q for
as~slrese hotels Sesp-osIff fiss,,.soa soardine
give little dinner partles-evening erf'
tertaInments. They are excused from
society in consideration Of these good
dinners; they spend the summer IN
Europe, or at watering-place; their
have the most fashionable dress-ma-
kers, and the best masters. 1t costs
them $40, 900 or $50, 900 to exc out their
existence. They might have a grand
brown-stone front house for $4,000 a
year, but then they would be afflicted
with a dozen servants. You ask one
of the boarders of the hotel, "Why
don't you keep house 2" and you will
find that in most cases a woman Is at
the bottom of this extravaganza
Either she is in "delicate health," or
she can not get along with the "help."
And so they leave their home and its
privacy and independence to go into
two apartments, and to pay for them
a price which you could rent palace.
But the society of the hotel recompen-
safes them. There are handsome
young lords, and dashing young bucks
of the Union, and the Union League
club coming there all the time, who
are sure to admire them when they
come down to dinner in grand state,
and who will keep them company If
they should get lonely in the absence
Of their husbands. 1t is delightful
life to one that lives to do nothing. A
woman in delicate health" will find
here rest and deliverance from all
household troubles. There are plenty
of good rocking-chairs in which they
can recuperate by the delightful mo-
ton. The only burden Of theirs is
dress. They submit to the trouble for
the sake Of eyading the Others, and
gladly dress three times a day for the
company of admiring young gentle
men and curious young ladies waiting
for their appearance in the restaurant
LUXURIOUS LESSONS EASILY LYLEARNED
Two Of the most eXtravagant of
these hotels have been but recently
built, and their number is still on the
increase. 1t is now ten. Theydepend
more on permanent bOarders than on
transient custom, which is absorbed by
the great many hotels on the Ameri-
can plan. Only those people who
would not like the best OF American
hotels for being too cheap and too dem
Ocratic, or Europeans who prefer to
live in their accustomed style, go TO
the European hotels. There they can
spend easily $50 a day. We have been
apt in learning the art Of luxurious
living from F,ureno"ns, aud IL theAe
European hotels no one sits down to
dinner without his wine. Great many
have friend to diuner, and then it Is
the easiest thing il the world tO spent
S25 at dinner. Grand dukes and
princes stopping at the Buckingham
Palace Hotel, III London, may pay as
much; but il il for week or two.
Here people pay the extraYagaDt
prices for years; they make it an eve
ry-day matter. Indeed New York is
the only place where such thing is
known. Neither London nor Paris
has such boarding hotels, although the
first named Democratic city yies with
the splendOr of our hotel aristocracy in
its very ''swelly" clubs. In the snm-
mer the boarders all go away. They
go away. They go to Europe, 10 New
port or Saratoga, or their country
seats. or late it has become more and
more the fashion to go to Europe in
preference to a watering-place. The
Herald recently calculated that hun
dred million dollars were spent every
year by Americans staying in Europe.
This calculation is extravagant, but
certain 1t is that the people who
spend such fabulous sums at home
will not be niggards when they 90 to
rove abroad. In New York il has be-
come regular item of the household,
5000 for three months trip to Europe.
There are many families here who
have not missed single summer for
eight or ten years, if we except last
year.
AMERICAN COUNTRY SEATS IN EUROPE.
Traye cling abroad becomes cheaper
the more American families learn the
ways OF Europe, and some of our
wealthy men earnestly think ofbuying
pretty place on the Rhine or on the
lakes of North Italy, whittier they
could go every summer. The plan is
feasible, and will be tried soon by sew
eral gentlemen who have found it con-
venient to provide new places Of resi-
dence for their families while in Eu-
rope. 1t would have obvious advanta-
ges with regard to the Doble sport OF
contributing which our young ladies
OF Fifth avenue delight in. A lady,
whose husband died recently, just left
her home on Fifth avenue to go abroad
in search Of a duke. She will go to
Italy where the commodity is to be
had in great plenty, and thinks OF
buying pretty villa, and living there
until she achieves her object. How
her friends here VIII envy her! How
they will chafe at Madame La Duch-
esse 1t has been noticeable how large
a number Of New York ladies 20 10
spend considerable time in Europe
without the protection of males. Mar
ried ladies take their grown up daugh-
tiers, and leave their husbands behind
to earn the money they are going to
spend, just as they go to Saratoga with
out their husbands. Americans trust
their wives everywhere; and let them
willingly stay at hotel, go to Sara
toga, or dash off to Europe, as they
please. OfOur young widows great
many have gone this summer to Eu-
rope, and the rich spinster aunt gladly
takes the girls of the family over to
Europe, if my lord or grain has no
time to leave the Exchange for the
summer; II 'pa" can't afford foregO-
ing speculation in the three months
during which he might fix Corner
in the gold room. There many of the
men are seen frantically vociferating,
and earning in the fever of the hazard
| the money which sparkles on the
necks of their ladies in the united glim-
mer of orient pearls and lustrous dia-
monds; that decks the girls in the
pomp of Worth, and brings all the
! luxuries of the world to the feet of the
dear, delicate creatures. How the
men have to toll, and to jeopardy soul
and body to satisfy their appetites tC
and those envious looks Of their deal
lady friends, for which they doom theil
husbands to work day and night, and
to risk happiness and fortune in tht
precarious pursuit ofmore money.
MAKING AND SPENDING MONEY.
A largo part of the fashionable pOpU