The New Orleans bulletin. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1874-1876, 1875-09-01

J and as you are stepping in COMMISSIONER,
takes hold of the door, and with cap in hand
asks you to remember him. His service has
been to shut it-payment No. 2. You stop
, another commissionaire opens the door
payment No. 8. You pay the driver hi$
legal fare, payment No. 4, and think you are
J through. Bat do not take any such console
ton to your purse. Monsieur has forgotten
the "pour boire," politely remarks Jehu, and
you derive from him the gratifying informa
ton that custom allows him to demand the
wherewithal to "wet his whistle" and this
makes payment No for the simple operation
of getting into a hackney coach. This prin
ciple extends through every branch of pecu
mary intercourse, and after all, is a wise one
for, by this rule, we pay only for services rem
dered and dinners eaten.
With the term "Paris Fashions" we as.
sociate only ideas of periodical importations
of novelties of refinement and elegance in
dress and style of living. But this view is as
imperfect as that of judging of the actual
condition of France only by its parks and
palaces. The female sex, as it appears to me,
take the first choice of employments, leaving
to me such only as they do not find to their
Interest or taste. There are certain provinces
that appear to be neutral ground such as
those OF street-minstrels, chifoniers, ped
dlers, newspaper vendors. and merchants >
of crimes, as the ill-omened cryer of the pro-
Life catalogue of tragic events are technically
called. The birds of evil announce with
startling intonstions their list of assassina-
tons extracted from the judicial journals, for
sale at the fixed price OF a sou each. Those
who have keen taste for the horrible can
crafty it at cheap rate by the inspection OF
the merchant and his stock in trade.
Like the vulture he appears to grow foul
| tray fha rhooo hot pntia &c
! The date merchant must necessarily be
man, as no female could furnish the requi-
site amount Of beard to counterfeit satisfac-
torily the Turk. This disguise is assumed to
prove the Orien sal origin of his fruit, and to
strike the imagination of his juvenile patrons.
| No one will dispute the inclination of the
female sex to carry their heads high, but we
doubt whether one has ever been found to
| compete with the basket merchant in his ex-
traordinary head-dress, moving as easily AMI
gracefully through the streets with this Babel
of straw and wicker-work on his Uranium as
if it were simply the latest style of coiffare Of
course he can only put out with his Pyramid
cal bazaar on still day, as head wind, or any
wind at all, would speedily bare his head and
send his baskets flying in all directions, a
Joyous fate for avaricious urchins, but ruin
Qua to him.
The merchant of "death on rats" belongs
to an expiring race Long have the cats
looked with envy upon his spoils, hung
upon pole, with which he walked the streets,
typical of his profession. But they who have
longest known his meager countenance will
soon know him no longer. Whether any Of
the "dinners at seventy-fve centimes" res
taurants will raise their bill of fare on ac-
count of his exit remains to be seen. A COM
pany has been form I'D, with capital of $780,
for fho of oil fhnr of
Paris. If Gordon of cats is to be established
around the city to keep out the country rats,
hare will become rare dish in more than one
cheap restaurant.
The last masculine occupation that shall
cite is one to which no female has ever
aspired, from the consciousness that it e4-
acts, perhaps, the only accomplishment that
she despairs of attaining. Its motto is I" the
tomb Of secrets" and its chietest attribute,
silence
The professor must be more dumb than
Memnon, but with an ear as keen and COM
prehensive as that of Dionysius. He is reposi-
tory of secrets of the heart, and hopes OF the
purse, Trainer of petitions, the agent of in
trigues; in fact, confes ior-general to the I'M
lettered multitude, reducing into tran sms-
sable shape the desires of the unfortunate
Monsieur or Madame to whom the mysteries
of writing remain hieroglyphical puzzle.
Their numbers are sufficiently indicative Of
the ignorance of the inhabitants at large.
Yet it often happens that the silence of his
mummiied existence is uninterrupted for
hours. Then, perhaps, his skill is taxed by a
tricky cook, who, perplexed by the unrecon-
cilable balance of her receipts and disburse-
ments, seeks an accomplish to reduce her &C.
counts to the required condition TO pass ex-
animation.
To live. it is necessary to be silent; yet
blush will sometimes steal over his withered
cheek, as he obediently enters in the account,
the bread bought by the cook at one sou,
charged to madame, the mistress, at two sous,
and thus by discreet use of the rule of null
DUPLICATION finally obtains the coveted
balance.
The American laborer, who consumes in
one day more meat than the family of
French "ouvrier in week, would famish
upon their bill of fare. The necessity which
begets many of their employments pays also
but poor wages. Yet what would be consid-
cred in the United States as a tribute fit only
for the swill-tub or beggar's basket, in France
would, by skill and economy, be made to fur
nish O welcome meal. The dietetic misery of
the former country would prove the savory
competency of the latter. But whatever may
be the composition of their frugal repasts,
they are eaten with zest and good humor
that are not always guests at more sumptuous
repasts.
The American laborer eats the same quality
of meat and bread as his employer. Either
OF these to the French workman would be
equivalent to .fete. His bread is coarser,
meat inferior, and throughout his whole diet
there is the same difference in quality as in
his clothes Many of the necessaries of his |
American brother he only knows by seeing |
them in shop windows. They are able to |
rear Louvres and Versailles, to build cathe |
drals and erect triumphal gateways, but |
hey would take the chicken out of every |
pot, and drive their children from |
he common schools to the fields and facto-
.ies.
The science of living we'll at cheap rate is
not understood in the United States. General
necessity has not as yet begotten that special
In Paris thirteen sous will pro-
Tide tolerable dinner of dish of soup, loaf
If bread, and plate of meat and vegetables
neles. This species of healthy and economi-
al alimentation is the heritage of large class
If workman AMI even of impoverished stu
Tents and artists, who seek these cheap res