New Ulm weekly review. [volume] (New Ulm, Minn.) 1878-1892, 1882-01-11
NEW ULM REVIEW, WEDNESDAY, JANUARY H. 1882
How the French Manage.

When we Americans are bOtherinE
about '.family help" it is aggravating
to think how much better they manage
these things in Paris. A corresponds
emit who has been studying up these
points writes as follows:
Imagine the convenience of having
nice, tidy woman coming up to your
rooms early in tho morning. say
o'clock, cooking your breakfast and
then doing all your chamber work.
sweeping. busting and leaving you in
perfect order for the day by 10 o'clock,
just two hours, and al this for the mod
est cost of ten cents. Their charges are
actually but five cents an hour. A
great many quite well-to-do families
live in this way, having the femme de
anen0ge two hours three times day to
prepare their meals and do the necessa-
ny homework. For those who do not
care to take their curly breakfast at
home there are the incest little places,
called c,'enae,ies, where you can get Il
bowl of coffee or chocolate and roll
for four or five cents. These little es-
adjustments, in addition to their early
breakfast trade, sell fresh butter and
eggs, milk and cream, cheese and fruit.
It is surprising what small quantity
of provisions you can buy in Paris. For
example, who would dare in New York
ask for two cents worth of butter?
Here it is a matter of course, and the
fresh. clean-looking girl, always wear
ing white apron and cap, serves you
across snowy white marble counter,
and cuts the exact quantity with wire,
never making mistake as you will see
when it is weighed. Among other con-
veniences for those who do not want to
cook at home arc the chd,cute,3e shops,
at which are sold cold ham. tongue,
veal and delicious gelatine, a sort Of
boned chicken and turkey, all kinds of
sausages, and even sardines at retail,
two for cent. These are all sold by
the small quantity. .a..
A slice of ham for five cents is
enough for several sandwiches. Again
at the Rotisserie you can buy roast
chicken just out of the oven. whole Or
by the piece, leg or wing, or slice of
breast. All kinds of game or meat are
to be had already roasted, or cooked to
order, and sent home at any specified
hour. 1t is an immense convenience,
and great saving in fuel alone. There
are also to be seen little stalls where
fried potatoes and small fish are sold
hot, every day from II till to 2 o'clock,
when you will meet strings of girls and
men in their blouses hurrying off with
brown paper bag steaming in their
hands. two or three cents worth being
enough for meal, even for a hungry
| man.
Speaking of fuel, must tell you of
little continuance discovered which
is invaluable, and certainly the cheap
est cooking apparatus ever invented.
1t is q tiny stove of sheet-iron, hardly
larger than quart measure. 1t costs
about twenty-five cents. The material
burned in it is sort of very fine char
coal called 6raise, which is bought at
the bakers. 1t is the residue of the
bakers fuel, and it is sold very cheaply
-four cents worth being enough to
,st the whole week. The fire in this
little stove is enough to make tea and
coffee, and to boil eggs, or even to broil
fish or chops. 1t makes no dirt. and it
is exceedingly easy to light fire.