Litchfield enquirer., 1881-11-24

However it is hardly possible for family to live in any style approaching responsibility short of $1, 800 a-year in Switzerland. In Lon- don, sitting room, bedroom. and drawing room cost about $30 to $35 8 month, fires and lights extra in Parls the difference is not ma terial, experiments renting for $1 ,000 to $1,- 200, but this includes furniture; in Wiesbaden a six-room apartment unfurnisbed, costs but $240, and in excellent houses. + ' @'8
 The cheapest way of living in the country is for small families to take pensions, the prices varying from $1 to $1 60 day, wines, fires, lights, and servant fees extra. One can live well, with extra bill for wines and pri- vate parlor, should one be used. for $1.75 a day. There are respectable premises where family of two adultssand two children can board, with everything included, for $90 month. The prices at students pensions aver age about $A month. This includes abed- room and the use of the public parlor Meals consist of coffee, bread and butter, at break fast; two meats, vegetables aud cheap wine at noon; and cold meat and tea for SUD- per. e0-8 ta . E. +"'f sG l3s- T.
 The cost of living in continental hotels va ries as much as it does in the United States. The charges for rooms and all meals, without wines are from $3. 90 to $4 in firstclass hotels and about $2 50 in second-cIass. 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. ''Hotel Holland" in Baden Baden, Germany, charge about $3 per day "Hotel Hinterhof" in Baden, Switzerland, $3
 ''Grand hotel" in Paris about $4 other first class hotels in Paris claim to give the same comforts and luxuries at $8. In the south of France, at fashionable resorts, the hotel rates are higher than in Switzerland. In Italy they are, on an average, 8 little less. . ,...
 School expenses on the continent are com. paratively small. The yearly tuition fee at Heidelburg is only about $50 at Geneva, $25 and at Wiesbaden, SIS. A students yearly expenses at an American university will run up easily to $1, 900; at Heidelberg, Geneva. or Zurich the outlay for room, board and tuition will not average above $4O0. Pri- vate teachers at Zurich receive sixty cepts a lesson of one hour, and teachers of languages, 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 trif1ing. The consul thinks that young man could pay his fare to Europe and back and graduate at first-class German university for less money than it would cost him to take a course in one of our small colleges. ' .'
 Regarding miscellaneous expenses outside the items of food and lodgings they are usually
 less, and in some cases much less, than in this country. Clothing is considerably cheaper on the continent. In England the price is almost one half less than Tn New York. Boots and shoes are also cheaper. All articles manufac- tured of silk are twenty and fifty per cent cheaper. Expenses of travel by rail or boat are less. Tickets to places of amusement are much lower and picture galleries are usu ally free The pleasures and luxurles of life on the whole cost very much less, but the act ual necessities are larger. . .t .-.s.- e.,, .