Morning journal and courier., 1881-10-27
WHAT IT COSTS TO LIVE ..ABRoAD.

l WHAT IT COSTS TO LIVE s.ABRoAD.'' Our consul at Zurich, Mir. Byers, has | made.an interesting and valuable report to the State department on the cost of living in Europe. Those who think of going abroad | can find much useful information in it, and those who must stay at home may be inter-
 ested in comparing the facts he gives with similar ones which they have discovered in trying to live in this country.
 In Switzerland. says Mir. Byers, the ex- pense of living has increased thirty three and I third per cent. in the last twelve years. As
 rule Americans will only find apartments
 to be rented. They contain ordinarily from five to seven rooms with necessary rooms for l servants and storage. The costin respecta- 1 ble localities is about $400 yearly. Fur i nished bedrooms cost about SIP month, or
 about one-half the price at hotels A family ] in Munich known to the consul, whose mem-
 bers are husband, wife and two small child. I ren, have expended $2, 265 year, an aecur- ate account being kept. They have six
 rooms in the best part of the city and pay 1 $500 rent. Fuel costs $65 year, which is dear, as wood is $1O to $12 cord and coal $9 ton. The house expenses, including
 marketing, winess everything in fact except
 servants pay, average $75 month or $500 yearly. Miscellaneous expenses, which in clude dress, books schools, theater, lectures excursions, etc., are estimated at $500 year.
 This family of course live well and have
 many luxuries, but it is hardly possible for a family to live in anything like respectable ck,, ,lo oI1 1e
 In London sitting room, bed room and drawing room cost about $50 to S35 month, fires and lights extra; in Paris the difference is not material, apartments renting for $1,- 900 to $1 200, but thfs includes furniture in
 Wiesbaden a six-room apartment, unfur- nished, costs but $23O, and in excellent houses.
 The cost of living in continental hotels va ries as much as it does in the hotels of the United States. The charges for rooms and all meals, without wines, are from $3.50 to $4 in frst-class hotels and about $2. 50 in the second class Fires and fees to servants are extra. In most European hotels favorable arrangements can be made for length of time if not in the travelling season.
 School expenses on the continent are con- parativeiy small. The yearly tuition fee at Heidelberg is only about $50; at Geneva $25; and at Welsbaden SIS. A students yearly expenses at an American university will run up easily to $1,OOO; at Heidelberg, Geneva, or Zurich the outlay for room, board and tuition will not average above $40o. Private teachers at Zurich receive sixty cents lesson of an hour, and teachers of lna- Ruages, music and painting are paid from sixty to eighty cents. The charges at the cantonal schools in Switzerland which rank with our colleges are extremely triding The consul thinks that young man could pay his fare to Europe and back and graduate at a first class German university for less money than it would cost him to take a course in one of our small colleges.
 x Clothing is considerably cheaper in Europe than in this country. The cost of travel by boat or rail is less and tickets to places of amusement are much cheaper. Probably, on the whole, it is about as economical to live here as in Europe. And if it is not it would not pay for us all to move across the sea just to save 8 few cents.