The daily gazette., 1880-11-15
Our European letter.

special correspondence oi the dazette,
PARIS, Nov. l, 1880.
The GAZETTE came duly to hand
and received from us the hearty well
come, not only of lifelong friend,
but as the family friend for the past
hundred years. Through all these
years it has regularly made its week
ly, semi-weekly or daily visit to
grandfather, father, or to us. Trough
all those three generations it has
been the promoter of progress in
Hundred, County and State, and the
advocate Of those political principles
which we believe tend to the main-
tainance of freedom and good gov
ernment.
1t has been a co-worker with those
generations of good citizens, toiling
to make the borough into the town,
to build the town into the city and
to make the city known everywhere
through its manufactures and its con
tributions to commerce.
To us, it is voice from home it
is the many familiar voices of those
who speak through its columns
Old Friend, we salute you! and
through you the many friends to
whom. you have access.
We are in Paris, and cat home"
for the winter. 1t is pleasant to
rest after almost half year of con-
slant travel through strange lands
and amongst peoples of whose Gus
toms and language one is ignorant,
In this l speak of myself only, for
the others of our party adopt all
languages and all national customs
intuitively.
In Holland all was dutch to me,
but the others could understand and
be understood in few days time.
In Germany it was only an eX-
change of low dutch for high dutch.
In Bavaria and the borders of Aus
tria, high dutch and french are both
spoken, and now in Paris they have
already learned to speak the langn-
age almost like the French them
selves.
In Paris we stopped at an English
hotel But hotel life everywhere is
artificial, and we wished something
more homelike. So we looked around
for "hat" or suite of rooms, and
were lucky enough to find What suit
cd us, in the cleanest and most airy
part of the town near the Madeline
church, which is called Eng lish and
American quarter. At home we had
been advised to look for residence in
the Latin quarters beyond the Seine.
But there the streets are narrow and
the houses stuffy and close. Here we
have our parlor, sleeping chambers,
kitchen and closets, with spare room
for friend. We can go to the grand
market for our meats and vegetables,
or we can have all necessary articles
brought daily to our doors at about
the same cost. We can have them
all brought cooked and smoking hot,
and engage from day to day just what
we wish. At every corner and at
many other places are excellent res
taurants, where families 60 for their
meals or have them sent to their rooms.
Many families thus dispense with the
trouble OF cooking in their own rooms.
In Paris none live in entire houses,
as with us. There is family to every
floor in the best houses in most are
several suites of rooms on each floor
p fiat. There are no front or street
doors, but all the suites or apartments |
open out to court enclosed by large |
folding doors sufficiently large to ad-
nit a coach and pair. The cellars are
divided into rooms and numbered to
with the suites or apart
ments, and are arranged for coal, wine
and provisions.
Renus, like everything in Paris, are
very high. A furnished suite in re-
spectacle locality that will accommo-
late comfortably, say family of four,
will rent for from thirty to one hun
lred dollars a month. All provisions
md groceries will cost at least one
,hird more tor the same quality than
With us. Clothing and articles of
uxurv are cheaper. Fruits are high,
.pples two dollars per bushel good
,ears twenty-five cents each, grapes
twenty-five to thirty cents pound.
Common wines are cheap-and worth
ess.
Coal sells for near twelve dollars
er ton, and good stoves can only be
ad of American make, except few
esigned for cake, In all matters Of
omfortable living the French are in
nitely behind the Americans. In the
Ingenious pothipgs-things of no great
Intrinsic value but of show, they ex-
,el, but nearly all useful and handy
hings are advertised as American.-
Il;hough fuel is SO costly it is burned
n open CRATES, and in cold weather a
arge room can scarcely be comforta-
'ly warmed.
The grades of society are distinctly
marked by costumes. The workmen
wear the blue blouse, the
and shop keepers wear
White aprons, the bonnes and house
iris wear white caps, the officers,
nunicipal and military, wear uniforms
enoting both their service and the
.rade in the service; all other female
ervants wear short dresses that mark
heir standing while French ladies of
Yealth and rank only, wear the rich
nd tasteful clothes that 30 often gov
rn the fashions in America.
Tho American ladies of whom we
ally meet many in Paris, are gener-
lly RECOGNIZABLE at sight by the SUI